Here's one thing we've learned from several years running Push Square: the Uncharted movie will never come out. The flick has been mooted since the beginning of time, and has had dozens of high-profile names attached to it, but it never really seems to get anywhere. Bad Boys III director Joe Carnahan is the latest to be signed up by Sony Pictures to plot out the live action adaptation of Naughty Dog's hit series. No wonder the division is always in the red…
Carnahan admitted that he'd like to direct the move as well as write it, but currently he's only signed up for the latter. "In a perfect world I would love to do both, but right now, I'm only on board to write the script," he said, adding: "Archaeology today is in itself an antiquity, but that world has always fascinated me. Especially when you go to a museum today and wonder how a piece got there to begin with. Plus, the property itself is so popular that it was hard to turn down an opportunity to work on it."
In addition to Carnahan, the likes of Charles Roven, Avi Arad, and Alex Gartner are all signed up to produce the movie, which… Well, doesn't have any actors on board yet. Principle filming was supposed to begin last year, but as is always the case with this project, it was pushed back. Just give it up – this movie is never, ever coming out.
[source variety.com, via gamespot.com]
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"this movie is never, ever coming out."
The Last Guardian
Shemue 3
FF 7 Remake
You can't say "never" anymore.
I've never understood what the problem is, it's a series of games based on the Indiana Jones series of movies, and Uncharted 2 was a movie w/ some gameplay sprinkled about. Can an Uncharted movie be any worse than Crystal Kingdom? Yet they are still making Indy 5. And they're all just James Bond w/o a tux anyway, and those movies will never end.
I wouldn't be surprised if in today's political climate they'd try to turn Nathan Drake into Natalie Drake but there are already 2 TR movies.
I do not see that there is any rush for the movie the series is done and dusted they might as well take their time eand get it right. I watch a lot of game/movie adaptions most are bad apart from Silent Hill which I thought did an excellant job. Prince of Persia was not terrible either.
Considering most big budget Sony flicks are god awful these days, I hope they never make an Uncharted film...........
Sorry guys, but Uncharted doesn't have the characters to pull of a film. Nathan Drake is NOT Indiana Jones. Indy doesn't kill thousands of people trying to get whatever treasure he's after. And even Sully is basically one dimensional (although it's a delightful dimension)--not to mention the cookie cutter villains. I think they could probably get a good film out of The Last of Us though, if it was handled well.
@TeslaChippie I don't know about that. Most Indiana Jones characters are paper thin as well and, in all honesty, Nathan Drake's mass murdering wouldn't be out of character with modern action cinema, where the "good guys" will often mow down dozens of mooks in the process of moving from point A to point B.
The bigger thing to me: "What's the point?" The whole charm of Uncharted is being able to play through one of these kinds of big-budget action movies. Turning it back into a movie feels like it defeats the purpose.
It would be a terrible movie. Should just leave it as it is.
Pointless waste of time, leave it alone Sony. Focus on the games.
Joe Carnahan is ace but has lots of films that never got picked up and languished in development hell. Writers get assigned to keep things moving and on the books.
The issue for gamers is, can you see anyone else other than Nolan North playing Nate? His voice and personality is a big part of the games success. The plots have never been the strongest.
Jason Statham as Charlie Cutter.
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