Everything you've heard about the Uncharted movie so far, especially anything that came out of David O. Russell? Forget it. Crave Online spoke to Neil Burger, the newly appointed director for the will-it-happen? adaptation of Uncharted, and said he's starting from square one with his take.
"Mainly we’re beginning from scratch and going back to the videogame," said Burger. "Because there’s a lot of cool stuff, actually, from the videogame, if you know it...It’s really one of the most cinematic video games, and one that has really developed characters. So, you know, there’s a lot of cool, really intense things that, if they work for the film’s story, I want to use them."
Burger acknowledged he's aware of the campaign to have Nathan Fillion take up the role of Nathan Drake, and rather than outright dismiss the possibility, Burger said he'll concern himself with Fillion when the time comes to start casting. Right now, they don't have a script and that'll come first.
Most video game adaptations who lose a high-profile director quickly fall into obscurity. I'm still holding out hope Gore Verbinski will return to his R-rated pitch on BioShock someday. With Burger already speaking openly about his plans for Uncharted, even at this early stage in the creative process, maybe there's hope for Uncharted, after all.
At Comic-Con this week, there will be a panel about the Mass Effect movie. I can't say much because I don't know much, but I've been told the Mass Effect movie is more real than many us would assume.
Guess we'll know more soon.
Great great great.
This means no Mark Wahlberg.
double woot.
Perhaps this movie will be good.
Sold.
The only thing they have to do for the Mass Effect movie to get me on board is to have Wrex in it.
I don't want a Uncharted movie. I don't want a Mass Effect movie. To me taking a book or comic book and putting it on the big screen is fine because it gives you something the book doesn't, visuals, sound etc, but video games cover all of that and they are interactive.
@RE_Player92:
also moving pictures and you already are familiar with voices and how people look, granted some of this is also with comic book movies, but because they are just drawn and so many iterations it's not so jarring. I'm not a comic book fan anyway, so I guess I can't really talk about that.
As much as I like Nathan Fillion... he's still way too old to play a young and dapper Nathan Drake.
Comic-con is shaping up to have some really interesting panels.
this is the first thing that sounds good about the Uncharted movie.
My vote still goes to SG: Atlantis star Joe Flanigan. His character on SG was basically Drake in space at times.
@RE_Player92 said:
I'm pretty much right there with you. Even a lot of book and comic adaptations seem unnecessary to me, but Uncharted is so much a great film-like experience and an amazing video game experience that I don't really feel like I need to see this. If this does actually come out one of these days though, I would much rather they do a unique story rather than simply adapt one of the games, because I don't need to watch a shorter, non-interactive version of a story I already know. That is coming entirely from my own perspective though, obviously there are people who have not and will not play the games that would probably see a movie like this (it would be new for them).
Right. I mean didn't they already do Asteroids with Armageddon.. or like Space Cowboys. That idea just hurts my brain.
I wish this was "Neil Hamburger Starting from Scratch on Uncharted Movie."
@Chris2KLee said:
That'd be great!