Last week, I detailed some of the small deviations HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us is making from the game.
However, over the weekend a fairly big change came to light – in HBO’s take on the series, the Cordyceps infection will not be spread by spores in the air. Rather, it will be able to spread by “tendrils” that can become a “network that is interconnected”.
During an interview with Collider, co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin spoke more about pandemics generally, and how the infection would be depicted in the show.
