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Can Hollywood break the video game curse with HBO series The Last Of Us?
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Pedro Pascal (left) and Bella Ramsey in The Last Of Us.
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LOS ANGELES – It is generally a compliment when a video game is described as “cinematic”, but the reverse – a film taking its cues from a video game – can be problematic.
And so Hollywood is littered with the skeletons of ill-conceived game adaptations that either failed to get off the ground or crash-landed shortly thereafter, often bombing with both general audiences and fans of the games.
