'The Last of Us' is already an HBO show in game form. Is there more story to tell?

With two marquee names cast, the show will continue to center on Joel and Ellie, and is expected to retell the story of the first game, released in 2013. This may give the showrunners some creative leeway. Video games are sometimes described as telling the parts of a movie that would be skipped, like traveling a few miles to the destination just to get to the next story beat. A TV show isn't hamstrung by any obligation to gameplay. Luckily, the first game had plenty of time pass between its chapters, so there's ripe opportunity to tell stories the games didn't -- or couldn't.