re: The Last Of Us Might Just Be HBO's Most Expensive Show Ever

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Works for books, but only if they are completed.

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yeah, but books are different. When you read a book, most people sort of see a movie in their head, right? If you really loved the property, i.e game of thrones, you then look forward seeing it in movie form and filling in the gaps and really getting that visual. You get my drift here.

But video games are different. You've seen the movie. Not only have you seen the movie, you've controlled the movie. You've been the movie. It's why video game movies don't work. You have to piggy back off the property, not just exchanged the media.

It might work, but I just won't be surprised if it doesn't. It'd have to be good enough to draw in people who've never played the game, and it might be, but if not, you don't just have a built in audience because it was a game. You're built in audience is the most critical.