the last of us hbo cocreator craig mazin has suggested the tv series fleshes out the games storyin a new promotional video shared to twitter ahead of the last of us series january 15 premiere mazin touched on the sensitive subject of making creative changes to the source materialwhen youre adapting something like a video game changes have to be done smartly mazin said we are telling more there is so much inbetweenjust this week the last of us director neil druckmann who also serves as cocreator on the hbo series assured fans that the tv adaptation doesnt diverge from the source work in a significant way thereby avoiding the biggest complaint about game of thrones last few seasons still since the first game which is what the first season of the show is based on only has about 15 hours of cumulative cinematics theres really only one way hbo can fill out a full nine episodes of storypersonally im excited to see how the capable hands of mazin and druckmann fill in some of the blanks from the games like potentially how joel ended up in boston after starting out the game in texas there are plenty of other unanswered questions we could see some clarity around in the seriesin case you need any more assurance that hbo probably isnt going to dramatically reshape naughty dogs original story last week druckmann called the tv adaptation the best most authentic game adaptation he added sometimes adaptations havent worked because the source material is not strong enough sometimes they havent worked because the people making it dont understand the source materialwe do know the series will tone down a lot of the violence seen in the games but weve seen no indication that the story will be alteredthe last of us tv season one is set to premiere on hbo and hbo max on january 15here are all of the new tv shows of 2023 to look forward to