The first episode of HBO's live-action adaptation of The Last of Us video game series is officially complete.

"My job here is done. I'm really grateful for the opportunity," director Kantemir Balagov, who oversaw the show's pilot episode, wrote on Instagram. "It was a great experience with ups & downs. Much love to the crew and especially to these people," he continued, before crediting a number of collaborators including cinematographer Ksenia Sereda, actors Pedro Pascal and Gabriel Luna, and co-executive producer Neil Druckmann.

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The Last of Us' 10-episode first season officially began production in early July of this year, with Luna, who plays Tommy Miller, sharing a behind-the-scene photo to mark the occasion. Based on the 2013 Naughty Dog video game of the same name, it was revealed in July that The Last of Us' total budget will exceed more than $100 million. In addition to Luna as Tommy and Pascal as protagonist Joel, the show has also cast Game of Thrones' Bella Ramsey as co-lead Ellie, Nico Parker as Joel's deceased daughter, Sarah, and Anna Torv (Fringe) as Joel's smuggling partner, Tess. Two of the game's voice actors have also joined the cast, with Merle Dandridge reprising her role as Firefly leader Marlene and Jeffrey Pierce, who voiced Tommy in the game, portraying a new character named Perry.

The Last of Us takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where civilization fell to a mutant cordyceps fungi outbreak that turns humans into zombie-like monsters. The show, developed by Druckmann and Craig Mazin (Chernobyl), will mainly adapt the original game's story, with Joel and Ellie traveling across the United States to deliver Ellie to Fireflies so that they can develop a cure from her natural immunity. It's currently unknown whether the show will also adapt plot points from The Last of Us: Left Behind, the game's 2014 DLC campaign which expanded upon Ellie's past, or its 2020 sequel, The Last of Us Part II, which centered on the dual narratives of an older Ellie and a former Firefly named Abby.

Written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, HBO's The Last of Us has yet to receive a premiere date.

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