The Last of Us: Craig Mazin thinks the Cordyceps fungus threat may be real

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With the premiere of The Last of Us series on HBO and HBO Max, several conversations have been started, one of which is the fungus that affects humans on which the series is based.

Suppose you were able to watch the first episode. In that case, you might get shocked, like many of us, about the scientists' conversation about fungi because the explanation they gave in the interview leaves us all afraid that something like this could happen in real life.

And it is that since we have been experiencing a pandemic, COVID-19, in the last two years, and there are still consequences, it is not pleasant to imagine a worse pandemic like the one in the game story.

CRAIG MAZIN BELIEVES THE CORDYCEPS FUNGUS THREAT MAY BE REAL

Craig Mazin, showrunner of The Last of Us series, is very interested in the franchise's plot and the catastrophic scenario that he imagines after the emergence of a dangerous outbreak. The creator believes that the threat of Cordyceps and other fungi is more real than many belief.

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Mazin revealed that all the information about fungi, their behavior, and possible evolution has scientific support. Likewise, he stressed that there is currently a real and latent danger related to them.

"It is real. It is true to the extent that whatever it says mushrooms do, they do. They currently do and have been doing it forever. There are some notable documentaries that you can watch that are pretty scary."

Despite the above, he believes that the outlook is not and will not be as catastrophic as in The Last of Us. He knows of the existence of fungi that change the behavior of certain insects and transform them into a kind of zombie. Mazin thinks this is unlikely to precede us in the future.

“Now his warning: what if they evolve and enter us? — from a purely scientific point of view, would they do to us exactly what they do to ants? I do not think. The friend. On the other hand, he's right: LSD and psilocybin come from mushrooms. What I said to John was, 'What we're doing in this scene is telling people that this has always been here,'" Mazin said.

We know that the creative spoke with scientists to better understand everything related to the outbreak. He did something similar for his work on Chernoby, a series that was also very well received.

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