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.