What If...? – Screen Gems / Stage 6 / Ghost House / PlayStation (Sam Raimi's The Last of Us)

On March 6, 2014, it was announced that Sony's Screen Gems would be developing a film adaptation of the critically acclaimed best-selling video game The Last of Us, with the game's writer and creative director Neil Druckmann penning the film's screenplay. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert were onboard as producers through their production company Ghost House Pictures, which had a successful relationship with Sony for a decade by that point. Druckmann wrote two drafts of the script and performed a read-through with some actors, but very little work on the project occurred following this. In 2016, it was confirmed that the project was stuck in development hell due to disagreements between Druckmann and Sony, with the former wanting to stick to the character-driven drama of the game while the latter wanted an increased reliance on action sequences. Eventually, the film was cancelled, with Druckmann moving on to the game's sequel The Last of Us: Part II and adapting the property into the upcoming HBO television series instead. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"

Music: "The Last of Us" – Gustavo Santaolalla (The Last of Us)