Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

[Dukefrukem]

This is exciting. The game almost plays like a movie as it is. It would be hard to fuck this up. Really. Anyone who's played the game knows how brilliant it is; graphics, voice acting, story,. I have one request; Cast Nathan Fillion for this role. Uncharted Drake's Fourtune

The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures -- actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis -- begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure's true secrets.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...db0a04d5691c7c

[trotchky]

Soon-to-be Oscar Best Picture nominee.

[KK2.0]

Game is great but, you know, hollywood will fuck this up.

Uncharted is the best Indiana Jones rip-off i've ever watched or played, the chemistry between characters is a rare thing in videogames and while the plot isn't anything to write home about, the game's narrative and set pieces are very compelling.

i don't know if it will translate well, though, as simple as it may sound, Uncharted the game is fresh, but as a non-interactive adventure is common territory.

[KK2.0]

I have one request; Cast Nathan Fillion for this role.

oh, you're not alone

[Acapelli]

you do know he voices the character, right?

[Winston*]

you do know he voices the character, right?

No he doesn't.

[transmogrifier]

Is Fillion the new Bruce Campbell - the actor whose mere casting provides instant movie geek cred for a movie, despite the fact that he barely does anything and actually is rather dull underneath the committee-written wisecracks?

[Dukefrukem]

Is Fillion the new Bruce Campbell - the actor whose mere casting provides instant movie geek cred for a movie, despite the fact that he barely does anything and actually is rather dull underneath the committee-written wisecracks?

I don't think so. HOWEVER, Bruce Campbell would make a PERFECT Sully!!!!!!!

[D_Davis]

Is Fillion the new Bruce Campbell - the actor whose mere casting provides instant movie geek cred for a movie, despite the fact that he barely does anything and actually is rather dull underneath the committee-written wisecracks?

Exactly. Glad someone else feels the same way.

[Morris Schæffer]

Is Fillion the new Bruce Campbell - the actor whose mere casting provides instant movie geek cred for a movie, despite the fact that he barely does anything and actually is rather dull underneath the committee-written wisecracks?

Heh, I like Fillion, but good post.

[Dukefrukem]

you do know he voices the character, right?

It sounds just like him doesn't it? But Nolan North voices the character. Same guy who does the Prince for the new prince of Persia.

[Lazlo]

As if Wahlberg wasn't bad enough:

Wahlberg confirms to MTV that he'll play Nathan Drake, saying “David [O. Russell] is one of the best writer/directors I’ve ever worked with. The idea that he has [for Uncharted] is just insane. So hopefully we’ll be making that movie this summer.”

What's doubly surprising is his potential co-stars - Scorsese's favourite duo Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Wahlberg says “That’s who he wants to write the parts for. I talked to Pesci about it and I know David’s people have talked to [Robert De Niro]...The idea of it is so off the charts: De Niro being my father, Pesci being my uncle. It’s not going to be the watered-down version, that’s for sure."

This is very surprising as the Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider-esque adventures have made no mention of Drake's family. In fact Russell's "idea" will be to set part of the film against the backdrop of the world of New York antiques, something that quite frankly sounds like bearing little relation to the game series.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/188...d-broken-city-

[Lazlo]

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/207...ctor-departure

Yesterday came word that "The Fighter" director David O. Russell had left the film adaptation of acclaimed best-selling video game series “Uncharted" at Sony Pictures.

Now, The Los Angeles Times has more details on the split and says part of the reason for it came down to the long and highly ambitious script the filmmaker had submitted.

As he had hinted at in interviews, Russell had taken the film in a completely different direction than the studio desired. Instead of a rough, wise-cracking lone adventurer exploring remote regions of the world with one or two helpers (think a much better written, more fun "Tomb Raider" or "Sahara"), Russell had created an art-heist movie involving a family of international thieves and a bunch of characters not in the game.

Sony is still intent on making the "Uncharted" film and will now bring in a new writer and director to work off an earlier non-Russell draft that sticks much closer to the game in style. With his departure, it's expected that attached star Mark Wahlberg is out as well, and the 2012 release date is no longer a possibility.

Russell himself isn't exactly strapped for films, having been linked to at least four other projects in recent months.

It's funny to me that this is the actual reason. What were the higher-ups at Sony doing when Russell was giving all those interviews a few months ago that said this was EXACTLY what he was planning to do? You'd think someone would have called him in and said, "Let's save everyone a bunch of time, and us a bunch of money, and NOT do it that way", instead of letting him get this far.

And how does Russell hear the concept for these games and come up with this idea? I mean, if you want to write a movie about art thieves that costs a crap-ton of money, don't try to sneak it by and turn Uncharted into something different from what made it successful in the first place. I guess the dude scores points for balls and artistic integrity, but there comes a certain point where it just seems like he's being difficult for the sake of being difficult.

[Morris Schæffer]

I dunno man. Videogame movies have been pants up until now. Perhaps balls are the missing ingredient to making one work. Does It really matter that Drake isn't a loner when all the rest is great?

[number8]

Does It really matter that Drake isn't a loner when all the rest is great?

I don't think that was the main problem.

These are games about an Indiana Jones-style adventurer of exotic places.

He wanted to make a movie about art thieves in the city.

[Morris Schæffer]

Neill Burger to direct?

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50289

[Dukefrukem]

Now, having said that, Neil Burger seems to be on the right track with the new adaptation of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. The director told Collider that he's just signed on to the project, and is rewriting the whole script. Like all the best Burger art, he said it's being made "from scratch."

He added that he likes the game's characters, noting that he knows men like Nathan Drake (so do we), "guys that are living in a very different way and who are slightly hustlers or con-men." He also noted that he would pull as many of the big moments from the game as possible, so long as they "work into the film's story."

"I just think you have to make the best movie you can," said Burger, "Something like Indiana Jones was updating 1930′s B-movies." Yes, Neil. Yes.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/19/ne...charted-movie/

[Morris Schæffer]

And we need a new director...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/72064

[Morris Schæffer]

This has been taken off Sony's schedule completely. Last thing heard was Joe Carnahan scripting, and Sony wanted him to direct too, but he's doing Bad Boys for Life aka Bad Boys 3.

[Dukefrukem]

This has been taken off Sony's schedule completely. Last thing heard was Joe Carnahan scripting, and Sony wanted him to direct too, but he's doing Bad Boys for Life aka Bad Boys 3.

Oh yeh. THat sequel that Will Smith said he wanted to stop making sequels which is why he turned down ID4.

[Morris Schæffer]

New director. Shawn Levy.

[Gittes]

Ken Marino as Drake might work.

[Gittes]

Ken Marino as Drake might work.

Here are other possibilities for other roles, but some of these are way more unlikely than Marino:

- Elena: Carrie Coon or Zazie Beetz.

- Sully: Charles Grodin or Peter Scolari or Kelsey Grammer.

- Sam: Walton Goggins or Tom Hardy.

I'm also thinking Andrew Garfield could pull off Drake's endearing, witty, and scatterbrained qualities.

[Morris Schæffer]

New director. Shawn Levy.

No, he's out.

https://theplaylist.net/shawn-levy-l...rted-20181221/

[Morris Schæffer]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO-m4IiAeBg/

The script's done. Carnahan says:

If there's a more monstrously cool action script in Hollywood right now, I wanna read it, 'cuz this thing is a BEAST.