If HBO’s “The Last of Us” wins the Special Visual Effects Emmy, it will be for pulling off the horrifying Kansas City clicker horde and bloater attack toward the end of Episode 5. That’s where Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Henry (Lamar Johnson), and Sam (Keivonn Woodard) heroically escape the escalating battle in the cul-de-sac, in which Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey), Perry (Jeffrey Price) and her militia are attacked by hundreds of swarming clickers and the bloater: the biggest and baddest of the Cordyceps-infected victims.
Wētā FX did the creature work on the CG clickers and bloater (led by animation supervisor Dennis Yoo), in addition to the gunfire, destruction, and explosions, including the fiery sink-hole from which the creatures emerge. All told, it was close to 400 VFX shots.
“We had different stages of infection within that sequence,” Wētā VFX supervisor Simon Jung told IndieWire. “So there were runners: that...
Wētā FX did the creature work on the CG clickers and bloater (led by animation supervisor Dennis Yoo), in addition to the gunfire, destruction, and explosions, including the fiery sink-hole from which the creatures emerge. All told, it was close to 400 VFX shots.
“We had different stages of infection within that sequence,” Wētā VFX supervisor Simon Jung told IndieWire. “So there were runners: that...
- 8/7/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Pedro Pascal went to extreme lengths to help his costar in The Last of Us episode six.
*Warning – spoilers ahead for The Last of Us episode six*
In “The Ties That Bind”, Pascal’s Joel is reunited with his long-lost brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna) – an event that does not take place in the video game, on which the series is based, until its sequel (The Last of Us: Part II).
Viewers are introduced to Tommy in episode one of the HBO series. The brothers, however, get separated at the beginning of the cordyceps outbreak and spend the next two decades apart.
Filmmaker Jasmila ŽbaniÄ. spoke to Variety about filming their emotional reunion in the sub-zero conditions of Alberta, Canada.
“The set was quite difficult because of the cold weather. Sometimes it was even -15 degrees Celsius, so very, very cold. That scene with Tommy and Joel was especially taken care of,...
*Warning – spoilers ahead for The Last of Us episode six*
In “The Ties That Bind”, Pascal’s Joel is reunited with his long-lost brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna) – an event that does not take place in the video game, on which the series is based, until its sequel (The Last of Us: Part II).
Viewers are introduced to Tommy in episode one of the HBO series. The brothers, however, get separated at the beginning of the cordyceps outbreak and spend the next two decades apart.
Filmmaker Jasmila ŽbaniÄ. spoke to Variety about filming their emotional reunion in the sub-zero conditions of Alberta, Canada.
“The set was quite difficult because of the cold weather. Sometimes it was even -15 degrees Celsius, so very, very cold. That scene with Tommy and Joel was especially taken care of,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - TV
The Last of Us makers are being called “pretetnious” after it was revealed they “banned” a certain word from being spoken on set.
Last month, the HBO videogame adaptation, from Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, was released to acclaim, with particular praise being heaped upon lead stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.
The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by an outbreak that sees heat=adsapted fungus cordyceps reduce humans to an infected state.
Many viewers unfamiliar with the games might assume that the infected are, in fact, zombies – but this is actually a point of contention among fans who get frustrated when people refer to them as such.
It turns out the word “zombie” was actually banned from being spoken on set. Cinematographer Even Bolten, who worked on four episodes of the season, made the revelation in a new interview.
“We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,...
Last month, the HBO videogame adaptation, from Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, was released to acclaim, with particular praise being heaped upon lead stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.
The series is set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by an outbreak that sees heat=adsapted fungus cordyceps reduce humans to an infected state.
Many viewers unfamiliar with the games might assume that the infected are, in fact, zombies – but this is actually a point of contention among fans who get frustrated when people refer to them as such.
It turns out the word “zombie” was actually banned from being spoken on set. Cinematographer Even Bolten, who worked on four episodes of the season, made the revelation in a new interview.
“We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
*Warning – Spoilers ahead for The Last of Us episode five*
The Last of Us’s fifth episode concludes with a massive outbreak of infected in a Kansas City cul-de-sac.
Melanie Lynskey’s ruthless gang leader character, Kathleen, has Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and their two accomplices Henry (Lamar Johnson) and Sam (Keivonn Woodard) trapped when a hole in the ground opens up, expelling hundreds of the monsters.
Among them is one more terrifying than the rest, an enormous Bloater – one of the most brutal enemies to face in the video game on which the series is based.
The Bloater is played by Adam Basil, a 6’6” British stuntman whose previous stunt double credits include the Beast in Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast remake.
Basil told Entertainment Weekly that he’s received a surprising amount of attention since starring as the grotesque creature.
“He seems to be...
The Last of Us’s fifth episode concludes with a massive outbreak of infected in a Kansas City cul-de-sac.
Melanie Lynskey’s ruthless gang leader character, Kathleen, has Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and their two accomplices Henry (Lamar Johnson) and Sam (Keivonn Woodard) trapped when a hole in the ground opens up, expelling hundreds of the monsters.
Among them is one more terrifying than the rest, an enormous Bloater – one of the most brutal enemies to face in the video game on which the series is based.
The Bloater is played by Adam Basil, a 6’6” British stuntman whose previous stunt double credits include the Beast in Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast remake.
Basil told Entertainment Weekly that he’s received a surprising amount of attention since starring as the grotesque creature.
“He seems to be...
- 2/16/2023
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - TV
"The Last of Us" is a story full of very human monsters. The series' post-apocalyptic landscape is crawling with smugglers, killers, power-hungry people, and various bad guys who have been hardened by their need to survive. It's easy to forget, then, that the story is also about cool mushroom zombies whose heads turn into fungus after their hosts fall prey to a fast-moving infection that also turns them rabid.
The fifth episode of "The Last of Us" didn't forget, though. All of the bellyachers who won't stop tweeting "where are all the zombies?" finally have their answer, because it turns out a whole busload of them were all hanging out beneath the streets of Kansas City. Among them? A bloater, one of the video game's most instantly recognizable images. The massive, strong monster came to life via a mix of practical effects, live performance, and VFX in the show, with...
The fifth episode of "The Last of Us" didn't forget, though. All of the bellyachers who won't stop tweeting "where are all the zombies?" finally have their answer, because it turns out a whole busload of them were all hanging out beneath the streets of Kansas City. Among them? A bloater, one of the video game's most instantly recognizable images. The massive, strong monster came to life via a mix of practical effects, live performance, and VFX in the show, with...
- 2/11/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers from Episode 5 of “The Last of Us,” now streaming on HBO Max.
If you thought the clickers from “The Last of Us” were scary, think again.
The massive, lumbering bloater is one of the most fearsome enemies in the original “The Last of Us” video game. Nearly impenetrable fungi have sprouted from every inch of its gargantuan frame after years of Cordyceps infection, and the creature has gained enough strength to rip the head clean off an unsuspecting apocalypse survivor. In Episode 5 of HBO’s “The Last Us” series, the bloater makes a grand, deadly entrance, erupting from a collapsed underground tunnel with a horde of clickers in its wake.
Barrie Gower, prosthetics designer on “The Last of Us,” birthed the bloater for its live-action debut. The four-time Emmy winner is a master at creating grotesque special effects and monsters; he’s the architect behind Vecna on “Stranger Things,...
If you thought the clickers from “The Last of Us” were scary, think again.
The massive, lumbering bloater is one of the most fearsome enemies in the original “The Last of Us” video game. Nearly impenetrable fungi have sprouted from every inch of its gargantuan frame after years of Cordyceps infection, and the creature has gained enough strength to rip the head clean off an unsuspecting apocalypse survivor. In Episode 5 of HBO’s “The Last Us” series, the bloater makes a grand, deadly entrance, erupting from a collapsed underground tunnel with a horde of clickers in its wake.
Barrie Gower, prosthetics designer on “The Last of Us,” birthed the bloater for its live-action debut. The four-time Emmy winner is a master at creating grotesque special effects and monsters; he’s the architect behind Vecna on “Stranger Things,...
- 2/11/2023
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Fans of action, rejoice! The amazing martial arts star Scott Adkins has a new movie that was released this past week! Adkins has starred as Boyka in the sequels to the 2002 prison boxing movie, Undisputed, which had transitioned into an incredible series of martial arts films, and Adkins himself won awards from the Jackie Chan Action Awards for Best Fight and Best Actor for the most recent entry, Boyka: Undisputed. And if Jackie Chan feels he’s earned that award, you know it’s some amazing stuff! You can also see him in films like Ninja, Ninja II: Shadow of the Tear, Doctor Strange, The Brothers Grimsby, Zero Dark Thirty, The Expendables 2, he had a cameo in Netflix’s Day Shift, and he’ll be in the upcoming John Wick 4.
Adkins’ new film Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday was released in theaters and on digital last October 14 and the man...
Adkins’ new film Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday was released in theaters and on digital last October 14 and the man...
- 10/19/2022
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
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