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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