![]() ![]() With principal photography set to begin in March, Fleischer mainlined the original video game series in weeks. Regarding the film’s premise as an origin story, Fleischer says it wasn’t his decision, “but I think it was a really smart one.” The character first appeared in the 2009 sequel Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Sophia Ali co-stars in Uncharted as Chloe Frazer, a fellow explorer. “It’s important in adapting any material that you’re finding an aspect of the source that hasn’t been explored, or you’re shedding light on something fans hadn’t seen already.” If you’re watching a movie that feels like somebody playing a video game, it’s not fun.” ![]() “I think it’s boring to simply adapt video games on the big screen,” he says. “If you’re watching a movie that feels like somebody playing a video game, it’s not fun.”įleischer, who signed on in January 2020 to direct a script written by The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins based on a draft from Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, agrees with Holland on the difficulties with video game adaptations. On February 18, Unchartedarrives from director Ruben Fleischer, with Holland as an adrift, 25-year-old Nathan Drake recruited by seasoned explorer Sully (Mark Wahlberg, once the fandom’s popular choice to play Nathan) on a mission to retrieve Ferdinand Magellan’s lost gold. That was the opportunity, the inspiration.”Īnd so, six years after the game’s 2016 finale, Uncharted - a video game franchise deliberately inspired by blockbuster movies - comes full circle. “Because the games don't cover that part of Nathan Drake’s life. ![]() “A large part of was Tom Holland’s interest in playing this, and telling this story that hadn’t been in the games,” Gartner adds. “And people that haven’t played the games don’t need to, because they are getting the introduction to the characters.” “The thing we’re wrestling with is the idea that gamers haven’t seen this story before,” he continues. The movie adapts the hit series of PlayStation games from developer studio Naughty Dog. Tom Holland stars in the role of Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter. On February 18, Uncharted opens in theaters. “We wanted to tell the story from the beginning, a point of view gamers haven’t seen: Nathan and Sully’s first adventure.” “We came to the conclusion that people that played the video game have been so immersed that, when they watch a film, they are bored,” Holland tells Inverse. It was a solution for all audiences to hop aboard, whether they’d ever owned a PlayStation or not. Though the origin story concept has been explored in many superhero movies - which have ruled the box office for the better part of 20 years - the idea felt fresh for Uncharted. ![]() As inspired as we were, it wasn't until we turned a new page and realized that we had to tell a fresh story that it felt right.” “We wanted to tell the story from the beginning.” “We knew we had to get it right,” Uncharted producer Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment tells Inverse. Fresh from his debut as the web-slinging star of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Holland came to the table with a spin only obvious in hindsight: What is daredevil fortune hunter Nathan Drake’s origin story? When Tom Holland boarded the project to turn the long-running video game series Uncharted into a movie in 2017, the film had been in development hell for nearly a decade.Īfter cycling through directors, scripts, fears of the so-called “video game curse” at the top of too many people’s minds, the tides turned. ![]()
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