In an interview with IGN, Maisie Williams, who plays the spitfire Arya Stark on HBO's "Game of Thrones," spoke about her continued interest in playing Ellie if and when the powers that be ever get around to making a "Last of Us" film adaptation.
Williams made it clear that there isn't a script at moment, so there's still a good bit to do before anything is confirmed, but as far as she's concerned, "it's looking like, 'yes.'"
"There was a whole thing that went on Twitter [of fans suggesting me for the role]," she explained to IGN. "I didn't know a lot about [the game]. I Googled it. Ashley Johnson - who did Ellie's voice - [fans] asked her what she thought of me and she said, 'That's pretty much my dream.' I don't follow her but I was silently stalking her wondering what she thought of all this.
"And when I got my American agent and he said, 'If there's anything you want to do, let us know' - America's got such that can-do attitude. That was the first time I came to him with anything. So he said he'd set us up for a meeting next time I'm in America. And they did. So I had a meeting with [producer] Sam Raimi and [game director] Neil Druckmann. And they said they'd love if you would moderate the panel at Comic-Con, but you'd need to watch the walk-through and know your s*** because there are massive fans of this and we wouldn't want it to go wrong.
"I was doing so much work for 'Thrones' that I didn't want to half-ass do it, so I said I'm not going to [moderate]. They said fine, but they're gonna announce they had talks. So the way it was left is they want me to do it, and I want to do it. But there's no script, no director, and no anything else. So at this moment, it's looking like, 'Yes,' but it's still such early days. If they make it in 30 years, they can't have a 40-year-old Ellie. So at the moment, it's looking good, and I'd love to do it. Hell yeah."
The film version of "The Last of Us" doesn't have a release date as of yet, but it is known that it will be produced by Sam Raimi ("Evil Dead" "Spider-Man") and the game's director, Neil Druckmann, will be writing the script.
