Back in February we learned that Seth Gordon ("Horrible Bosses," "The King of Kong") was going to direct the live-action, big-budget video game series film adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for Sony Pictures .
Based on the first game in the Naughty Dog series, the story charts the
journey of Nathan Drake, supposed descendant of the explorer Francis
Drake, as he seeks the lost treasure of El Dorado with the help of
journalist Elena Fisher and mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan.
"Safe House" writer David Guggenheim penned the most recent draft of
the script, a good enough one that the studio immediately hired him to write the action sequel Bad Boys 3. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer as well as "National Treasure" duo Marianne Wibberley and Cormac Wibberley have all worked on the script at some point in time. The likes of David O. Russell and more recently Neil Burger ("Limitless") were attached to direct the project at various points along the way here.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner remain attached to produce.
Gordon updates Zap2It
about the project:
He says that the writing team has put the script into a "really good place".
When could they will begin
filming?: "I think very early next year. That's the plan. That's like
tomorrow, essentially, because the prep is so complicated for the
movie."
The role of Nathan Drake has yet to be cast but the search is on:
"I want it to be a great actor. That's number
one, and then if it's someone who has an actual jaw, that's even better.
The game is so well done that you need it to live up to that. There's
no way we'd do the inverse of that where it's somebody famous who can't
[act]."
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