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HBO's 'The Last of Us': Watch the First Full Trailer

The new footage from HBO's video game adaptation includes a spine-chilling look at the infected.

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Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She recently graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where she wrote for her college newspaper, The Daily Texan, as well as for state and local magazines. When she's not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee and try out new horror movies.
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Bella Ramsey as Ellie in HBO's Last of Us

Game of Thrones actress Bella Ramsey stars as Ellie in the new series.

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We just got a one-and-a-half-minute trailer for The Last of Us, the HBO series based on the acclaimed video game. 

Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Merle Dandridge, Nick Offerman and more appear in the clip, which reveals more of the upcoming series' postapocalyptic setting. It also offers a gruesome look at the infected. 

The Last of Us is scheduled to premiere in 2023. 

HBO's Last of Us show is written and executive produced by Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, and Neil Druckmann, the writer of The Last of Us game. The drama series is set two decades after modern civilization has been destroyed and follows survivors Joel (Pascal) and Ellie (Ramsey). 

Also executive producing HBO's series are PlayStation Productions' Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan; Evan Wells from The Last of Us game developer Naughty Dog; and Carolyn Strauss, whose credits include Game of Thrones and Chernobyl.

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