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The Last of Us – 6 post-apocalyptic visions that inspired the game

We've got a handful of films we think played a part in evolving Naughty Dog's latest game

Words: on June 28, 2012
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  • ultimatepunchrod - June 28, 2012 12:07 p.m.

    The Road was one of the most depressing movies I have ever loved. All of these are good though.

  • GR Alex Roth - June 28, 2012 12:16 p.m.

    Yep, The Road is a real day ruiner. I'd really like someone to cut a trailer for it set to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TD_pSeNelU

  • TheHowetzer - June 29, 2012 5:46 p.m.

    I am going to have to check out The Road, hope netflix has it. The dog dying was like hope itself had died. I think the movie was supposed to get worse after that point. Also yes I second the book of Eli for one you missed.

  • Tjwoods18 - June 30, 2012 12:11 p.m.

    Children of men was FFFIIINN brilliant movie. They should have mad a game from that.

  • Sonattine - July 2, 2012 3:09 a.m.

    I would just like to point out that "28 Days Later" is itself arguably a film adaptation of John Wyndham's book "The Day of the Triffids", with zombies in place of extraterrestrial christmas trees : Wake up in hospital, find the world has gone to hell, round up survivors, get help from a military group. But zombies !

  • Shinard - July 2, 2012 11:10 a.m.

    You've just described the plot of a whole lot of post apocalyptic films... A bit too tenuous, in my opinion. The blindness and the plants are sort of key to Triffids. Anyway, in the book the Triffids were very much terrestial and the blindness was caused by an unknown source (hinted to be government weapons).

  • GR Alex Roth - July 2, 2012 1:06 p.m.

    I wouldn't call it a remake or an adaptation, but they definitely have common story threads. Kind of interesting given that they are both UK productions. I was actually unaware that Triffids was a novel up until writing this piece. It's strange that the blindness would be caused by something other than the plants or the meteor shower. The whole thing with the Triffid invasion is that it would have been rather either to combat if not for them destroying two things we take for granted: sight and social order. May have to check this book out.

  • bebl09 - July 2, 2012 9:10 p.m.

    I thought everyone knew Day of the Triffids was a book lol. It's a bit old fashioned but still a great read.

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