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HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’, Hideo Kojima to Make Appearances at SXSW 2025
SXSW 2025 already has a stacked horror lineup this year, and they’ve made it even moreso with the announcement of the fourth round of Keynote and Featured Speakers this year. That includes the cast and creators of HBO’s adaptation of The Last of Us, and Kojima Productions’ own Hideo Kojima, who is set to discuss and share new details about Death Stranding 2: On The Beach.
Ahead of the second season of The Last of Us debuting this spring, co-creators, executive producers, writers, and directors Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, and cast members Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, and Young Mazino will be on hand to provide a glimpse into the upcoming season.
Meanwhile, Hideo Kojima will sharing more about Death Stranding 2, which includes the returning Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges, as well as George Miller, Fatih Akin, Elle Fanning and Shioli Kutsuna. One hopes that this will include more information on the announced film adaptation of the original Death Stranding, but that might not be the case. Still, you never know.
The follow-up to the Emmy-winning first season of The Last of Us will premiere this April, though no exact premiere date has been announced.
This year’s SXSW takes place on March 7 to 15th.
Calling all Crewmates! Paramount+ announced today the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us, which was unveiled live at Summer Game Fest.
Created by Owen Dennis and produced by CBS Studios and Innersloth, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.
The series follows “a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs.”
It’s based on the globally popular multiplayer social deception game of the same name, which has been brought to life in the brand new trailer below.
Among Us boasts a star-studded voice cast, too:
- Yvette Nicole Brown as “Orange”
- Kimiko Glenn as “Cyan”
- Liv Hewson as “Black”
- Ashley Johnson as “Purple”
- Wayne Knight as “Lime”
- Phil LaMarr as “Brown”
- Randall Park as “Red”
- Dan Stevens as “Blue”
- Debra Wilson as “Yellow” and “Computer”
- Elijah Wood as “Green”
- Patton Oswalt as “White”
Animation studio Titmouse is behind the series.
Among Us became a global sensation in 2020, generating more than 4 billion views on YouTube and over 1.22 billion viewing sessions on Twitch. In October 2020 alone, it ranked #1 on Google Play in 66 countries and #1 on iOS in 55 countries, with Top 100 placements in nearly every market worldwide. The game is available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series.
The paranoid phenomenon now heads to Paramount+ in animated series form. Watch the new trailer below as all episodes launch on streaming today.
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