HBO's The Last of Us has shared a series of major casting announcements, confirming that several characters from the original game will appear in the series, but there may be new faces too.

The show's 10-episode first season is said to be adapting 2013's The Last of Us, but executive producer Neil Druckmann has already revealed that some episodes will "deviate greatly" from the events of the acclaimed game. However, both he and showrunner Craig Mazin have assured fans that the story will only "enhance" previous material rather than "undo" it.

With shooting now fully underway, much of the show's cast has been unveiled, confirming live-action debuts for many of the game's beloved characters. There's also a few original characters created just for the series, including someone named "Mr. Adler" portrayed by Friday Night Lights actor Brad Leland, who has become the latest addition to the cast at time of writing.

Keep reading for our full rundown of who's appearing in The Last of Us — and don't forget to bookmark the page, as we'll be updating this article with all the latest casting news as it comes in.

Pedro Pascal as Joel

Pedro Pascal will play the series' lead male protagonist Joel Miller, who will be seen breaking free of an oppressive quarantine zone and journeying across a post-apocalyptic America. Pascal rose to prominence portraying Oberyn Martell on Game of Thrones. His other notable TV credits include playing Javier Peña on Narcos and Din Djarin on The Mandalorian.

Bella Ramsey as Ellie

Pascal will be headlining the series with fellow Game of Thrones alum Bella Ramsey, who will be playing Ellie, a young orphan who is immune to the virus that is ravaging Earth and must be delivered to a group called the Fireflies in order for them to create a cure. Ramsey is best known for her role as the young ruler Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones.

Gabriel Luna as Tommy

It was announced in April that Gabriel Luna had joined the cast as Joel's brother Tommy, a former soldier holding onto his idealism in the post-apocalyptic landscape. The Last of Us will mark Luna's return to HBO following his role on Season 2 of True Detective, though he's perhaps best known for playing Robbie Reyes aka Ghost Rider in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.

Merle Dandridge as Marlene

Merle Dandridge, who voiced Marlene in both The Last of Us and a flashback in The Last of Us Part II, is reprising her role as the leader of the Fireflies in the live-action series. Her past TV credits include The Night Shift, Greenleaf, and Murphy Brown. She also portrayed no-nonsense FBI agent Kim Hammond in HBO Max's Kaley Cuoco series The Flight Attendant.

Nico Parker as Sarah

In June, Nico Parker became the newest member to join the cast of The Last of Us series. She will portay Joel's daughter Sarah following her breakout role playing Milly Farrier in Tim Burton's 2019 reimagining of Dumbo. She also starred alongside Naomie Harris and Jude Law in the 2020 HBO miniseries The Third Day, starring in three of the show's six episodes.

Jeffrey Pierce as Perry

Jeffrey Pierce, who voiced Tommy in both Naughty Dog games, is making a return to the franchise as a different character. He will be playing someone named Perry, who's described as a rebel living in one of the country's quarantine zones. As well as lending his voice to video game characters, Pierce has starred in numerous other series such as Bosch and Castle Rock.

Con O'Neill as Bill

In addition to Pierce, it was announced that Con O'Neill will be guest starring as Bill in the series. Those who have played The Last of Us will know that Bill is the man Joel and Ellie visit in the booby-trapped town of Lincoln shortly after leaving Boston. In the upcoming adaptation, the Chernobyl star is expected to play a post-pandemic survivalist.

Murray Bartlett as Frank

Murray Bartlett has been cast as Frank, Bill's partner who was briefly mentioned as a deceased character in the game. The series may recount the events that lead to Frank's death or perhaps Frank will survive and live out his days with Bill. In recent years, Bartlett has starred in HBO's The White Lotus, Netflix's Tales of the City, and Marvel's Iron Fist.

Anna Torv as Tess

Fringe star Anna Torv has been cast to play Tess in a recurring role on the series. In the game, Tess worked with Joel to smuggle weapons in and out of Boston and aided Joel in taking Ellie to the Fireflies. Interestingly, Tess' appearance in the game didn't extend through the entire playthrough, so there is a possibility her role has been expanded for the series.

Brad Leland as Mr. Adler

Friday Night Lights actor Brad Leland has also quietly joined The Last of Us cast. A subreddit for all things related to the series posted an interview found on the A-List Productions YouTube channel in which Leland revealed that he had recently travelled to Canada to shoot some scenes for the show. IMDB has him listed as playing a character called "Mr. Adler."

Keep checking back here to get all the latest casting updates for HBO's The Last of Us.

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Joker star Joaquin Phoenix apparently doesn't know if a sequel is happening.

Speaking to The Playlist, Phoenix simply said he didn't know if the rumors of Joker 2 were true. When asked if he would be on board for a sequel, Phoenix said, "there are some things we could do with this guy and could [explore] further. But as to whether we actually will? I don’t know.”

Even though Joker director Todd Phillips originally said the filmmakers "have no plan for a sequel," rumors of a potential Joker 2 started picking up steam earlier this year. In May, reports said Warner Bros. signed Phillips on to write a sequel to the 2019 movie.

After the original's box office success, Phillips said, "I think they're just giving us time, and if we can figure it out, and if Joaquin's down to do it, we would do it. But we haven't gotten near that yet." This matches Phillips' previous comments where he said Phoenix would be key to a Joker sequel.

We don't know if Phoenix actually doesn't know anything about a Joker 2, or if he's just being secretive when talking to the media.

A sequel would make sense for Warner Bros., as Joker became the first R-rated movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide. In our Joker review, we called the movie a masterpiece, saying, "Joker isn’t just an awesome comic book movie, it’s an awesome movie, period."

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin has received a brand-new trailer and poster ahead of its exclusive streaming debut on Paramount+ on October 29, 2021.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin is the seventh film in the series and is the first entry since 2015's Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. In this trailer, we get a glimpse of Emily Bader's Margot as she is on her way to meet her first biological relative in a secluded Amish community her mother used to call home.

This Halloween, The Activity is Reborn. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin premieres October 29, exclusively on @ParamountPlus. pic.twitter.com/PLzYTkWeGy

— Paranormal Activity (@TweetYourScream) October 6, 2021

Margot, who is also a documentary filmmaker that had planned to film this important part in her life, quickly "realizes this community that welcomed them into their home might be hiding something sinister."

Directed by William Eubank and written by Christopher Landon, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin also stars Roland Buck III, Dan Lippert, and Henry Ayers-Brown. The film is produced by Jason Blum and Oren Peli and is executive produced by Christopher Landon, Steven Schneider, and Jenny Hinkey.

Alongside Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin, Paramount+ is also releasing a feature-length documentary called Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity that will "provide fans a deep dive into the making of the 'Paranormal Activity' films with interviews, never-before-seen footage, and more. This documentary will also be released on October 29, 2021.

For more in the world of horror to help prepare you for Halloween, check out the best horror films on Netflix right now, our review of Netflix's Midnight Mass, and our list of the Top 100 Best Horror Movies of all time.

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There's Someone Inside Your House premieres Wednesday, Oct. 6 on Netflix.

New slasher flick There's Someone Inside Your House is an unfocused, unsatisfying teenage body dropper that feels like a patchwork poser compared to other, better horror mysteries. It dresses itself up in a dozen gimmicks to make it seem like more than a copycat of superior projects, but just about everything going on here is underwhelming to a frustrating degree.

From the killer's themed costume to the action set pieces to the actual reason the killer is killing, There's Someone Inside Your House is a haze of slasher malaise. It's also wildly inconsistent with its gimmick, messaging, and tone, wanting to be a Scream-style meta mystery, a Heathers-style high school satire, and a dramatic redemption story all at once. It's so algorithmically thrown together that even the titular premise/promise — of someone being in someone's house — doesn't even hold for more than one kill.

That's right, the gimmick isn't even the gimmick. Also, the unspoken rule that the first two kills establish — that the local bogeyman is going after people who are secretly bad people — gets entirely demolished by the third kill when the target is a decent person. And if you're wondering why there's such a whopping irregularity there there, it's because the entire movie is unstable. Right down to the final reveal — which is lazy, empty, and disappointing. At times, it feels like the film's trying to say something about "cancel culture," but once people who made genuine mistakes are lumped together with actual abusers and hate-mongers, the point dissolves into nothing.

Set in a rural Nebraska town, the film kicks off with a high school football star being killed in his own home (so the title holds, at first). As it turns out, the dude was trash. As soon as he's snuffed out, by a killer wearing a mask that looks like the victim (that's the M.O. here — masks that look like those soon to be stabbed), the entire community is shown the victim instigating a football team hazing ritual gone brutally wrong (because all slasher movie killers know how to message every single person's phone at once). With the town reeling, the next then kill solidifies the fact that the murderer is going after people with dark secrets. Specifically, secrets about the victims being purposefully awful people.

Quickly though, that blueprint is ditched in favor of a story where anyone, including our heroes, who by all plot armor accounts can't secretly be bigots or homophobes, are in danger. But then…it just becomes a story about someone killing any teenager in town for any reason. There's Someone Inside Your House is a wholly crummy affair with no teeth, no point, and no heart.

The Walking Dead's Sydney Park stars as Makani, a girl who's recently moved to town, escaping a recent, tragic event who, like everyone else, becomes the target of this masked assailant because… she has a past. Again though, Makani, and her band of outcast friends, are apparently just as vulnerable as the killer's first two victims, who are a nasty prejudiced people. And all the while the film plays the Red Herring shell game to the point where the killer really can't be anyone except the one person that doesn't make any damn sense.

Yes, there's a certain formula that has, and still can, work for the teen slasher genre. But that also means it can easily enough get thrown together in a half-hearted manner for a movie that only seems to care about checking various genre boxes for the sake of Netflix's "Top Picks for You" column than delivering something fresh and fun.

Admittedly, There's Someone Inside Your House is a good title for a film looking to play around with tropes and get a bit winky and clever with set pieces. But what we get is a flat, muddled mess that fails because it just wants to have everything. It wants to have someone run through a house, but also a church. And a school. And a corn maze. Oh, and the corn is on fire like in Freddy vs. Jason. And the dad is a cruel real estate developer like in Heathers. And the deputy is a suspect like in Scream. And people are killed in ways fitting their individual hangups like in A Nightmare on Elm Street. It wants very much to be all the things, but in that effort it loses any semblance of a satisfying story.