The notion of a movie based on the Uncharted games has always struck me as a bit redundant; these are, after all, the games that Sony advertised as being so lifelike that your girlfriend would assume that the two of you were watching a movie instead of playing a game. That's pretty insulting to women, or at least a specific woman, now that I think about it, but it was a pretty clever comment on how realistic the game is. Watching a film version of it might actually be a comedown after actually controlling Nathan Drake on his adventures across Panama or Paraguay or wherever he's supposed to be hopping around.
David O. Russell was originally supposed to bring the game to the big screen, but his habit of leaving projects appears to have struck again, as he's apparently been replaced by the director of Limitless, Neil Burger, who'll also be rewriting the script from scratch and apparently jettisoning Russell's work. I haven't had a chance to check that out yet, but I should probably do so, given Alex's praise of it. What's up in the air is whether or not Mark Wahlberg is still going to star in the film; both he and Russell have been making a lot of noise about a sequel to The Fighter, so if his director bestie is moving on from the project, Wahlberg himself might pass on it. Slashfilm asks if maybe Bradley Cooper might be a natural replacement, given that he worked on Limitless as well; I could certainly think of worse castings. For me, though, I say just go full The Rundown and cast Dwayne Johnson as Drake. I mean, we can all hope for a half-tucked Nathan Fillion, but I doubt they're going to cast him in the lead of a $100 million+ movie, no matter how much nerd credit it would earn them.
@ensabac said:
Yup
Holy shit
Bradley Cooper would be perfect as Drake
@DeadPan said:
He would be a perfect Harry Flynn!
oh yes that would totally work!
I am past the point of wanting to see video games turned into films. The exception is Mass Effect simply because I want to see more of that universe and see that universe on film. If it does go through I at least hope it will be good.
I still think James Denton could do a pretty good job as Nathan, but yeah, Bradley Cooper wouldn't be bad at all, certainly better than both Fillion and Wahlberg, even though I like both of them
After watching the Avatar series, and then watching The Last Airbender, I'm now entirely AGAINST film adaptations of other visual mediums... Because fuck that film.
Funnily enough, I would be more than happy to watch a movie titled Captain South Korea.
Strangely my first thought was that I can get behind a director that is named after a food. But I am glad they decided to ditch the old script and I think the new director should be capable enough.
This is the best news yet. I'm not opposed to the idea of the movie since it could be as exciting other adventure movies like Indiana Jones, Romancing the Stone or The Mummy, but on the same note, the game took a lot of inspiration from those earlier movies and so it's going to have to work hard not to feel derivative.
I really liked Limitless, so Im all for it. I especially loved how that movie got into Crank territory towards the end there. Could be really cool.
Cooper as Drake would definitely work a lot better than I ever thought Wahlberg would, but as some of you other guys said, he'd be a great Flynn too. Cast Fillion as Drake, slap both his and Coopers face on the posters, and it just might work out for everyone.
Kevin James should star and change the title to UNSHARTED.
Seems win/win to me.
And I think that Bradley Cooper would make a fine Nathan Drake. He plays the snarky jerk pretty well already, and he's got some action movie cred under his belt with A-Team. He'd be pretty great, come to think of it.
Cooper is way better a choice than Marky Mark. If it must be done, let it.
Cooper strikes me as too cocky to play Drake. Most of Cooper's roles seem to be geared towards him being the unflappable, smooth talking, cool guy & so much of Nathan Drake's appeal comes from his constant shock & surprise that horrible things are happening to him when they're usually due to his own machinations.
I'm certain Bradley Cooper can handle the snark and handsomeness of the character but he would really need the ability to drop the cool-guy act as soon as the shit hits the fan & acknowledge that everything that's happening in the situation is terrifying and messed up.
Brad Cooper is certainly leagues ahead on Mark Wahlberg in terms of the role though.
Edit: Neil Burger leaves me a little ambiguous though, I've yet to see Limitless but I absolutely hated hated hated The Illusionist.