”I’m not an anti-progress, back-to-the-Stone-Age guy. But we must regulate ourselves or something will come and regulate us against our will.”
– American screenwriter and film director
Craig Mazin, on the fungal apocalypse at the heart of his new HBO videogame adaption
The Last of Us (2023): fuelled by climate change, highly parasitic
Cordyceps infect the world’s population. “I think the thread underneath it is: You don’t want to be too successful on planet Earth,” Mazin says.
