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“The game is the vision,” production designer John Paina said e! News that refer to the 2013 Playstation title in 2013 The last of us is adapted by. “The concept art for the game always looked cinematic. It had a feeling of place and lighting and realism.”

But as film -like it looked like that, it was still a game. The task of Paina, Set Decorator Paul Healy And hundreds of other craftsmen were supposed to build material versions of the game's duel worlds: the not so long but subtle retro 2003 and the frozen version of the same year, two decades after life, as people knew that it imploded.

“The biggest challenge was to only work in a real situation,” said Paina. “We make a time about an dry apocalyptic piece that is also a drama about people. So there was this multi -story.”

Production started in Calgary in July 2021, and the Canadian city “worked for certain things,” he said, but “I don't think there was ever a place where there is no love from the art department or reconstruction. In addition, everything has been neglected for 20 years.