Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is by far my favorite PS3 game and in my top five for best of the next-gen–at least until the sure-to-be-bodacious Among Thieves lands later in the year.
Apparently it’s resonated with studio suits, too, as the Hollywood Reporter says:
Columbia has found “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.”
The studio is developing the action-adventure video game for a feature film, setting Kyle Ward to pen the adaptation that would be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner.
The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures — actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis — begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.
While the game is probably the closest I ever got to actually playing an interactive summer movie, I wonder how this would do in front of audiences. Beloved by the gaming crowd for sure, the title never achieved icon status so the word-of-mouth isn’t there.
And who would play Nathan Drake? His surprisingly-not-annoying smart-assness primarily kept the game rolling along so smoothly. A casting misstep will spell doom.
I think the choice is obvious, though.
By Dave Johnson
Nathan Fillion for the win! And Jewel Staite as Elena Fisher!
Director – someone who can handle action without being too flashy, but with a sense of fun and respect for the source material. Believe it or not, but i think Breck Eisner could knock it out of the park based on Sahara.