HBODid you find the start of The Last of Us beastly? Well, you know that there was an alternative opening that was eliminated and it was much worse.
The alternative start of The Last of Us was much more beast. According to the HBO series’ showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the second episode originally focused on Tess’s dark history. The character played by Anna Torv has marked many viewers.
On the series’ official podcast, Druckmann and Mazin explained that they had written a cold open for the second episode of The Last of Us. This opening added a bit of backstory to Tess. It showed that, before meeting Joel (Pedro Pascal) and going into business together in the Boston quarantine zone, Tess had a husband and a son, both infected with the Cordyceps fungus..
“We had talked about it and we wrote it down,” Mazin said of the opening alternativo del 1×02 de The Last of Us. “But we never shot it. It was kind of the story of Tess and the fact that she had a son. She had a husband and a son, and they were infected and she had to kill them.” A savage.
The brutal origin that they erased from Tess
Realizing this, Tess would have killed her husband but “couldn’t kill the son.” This led her to “lock him in the basement”, where the Cordyceps fungus would have taken over him, letting his son become one of the Clickers from The Last of Us.
Druckmann noted that in the cold opening the cameras would have focused on the basement door while the public “just heard that knocking coming” from the other side. Later in the second episode, Tess would have told this tragic story to Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). However, the showrunning couple eventually realized that “the sequence didn’t fit.”
