Sony has revealed the release date for the upcoming live action "Uncharted" film. The new release date is set for July 10, 2016 which funny enough was the original release date for "The Amazing Spider-Man 3" which has now been moved to 2018.
Not only that but according to Deadline, Sony wants Mark Wahlberg to play the lead role of Nathan Drake, but both Sony and Wahlberg's reps tell the website that "nothing has happened."
The new "Uncharted" film will be directed by Seth Gordon who directed the hilarious "Horrible Boses" film, with the latest draft of the screenplay being written by David Guggenheim. Avi Arad who did "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," Charles Roven from "The Dark Knight," and Alex Gartner from "28 Days Later" will produce the Sony film.
The game series follows modern-day treasure hunter Nathan "Nate" Drake, senior treasure hunter and mentor Victor Sullivan "Sully", journalist Elena Fisher, and numerous secondary companions whom they will come to meet and recruit as they travel around the world to uncover various historical mysteries. The franchise includes "Uncharted: Drake's Fortunes," "Uncharted 2: Among Thieves" and "Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception." During E3 a fourth installment was announced for the PlayStation 4 titled "Uncharted 4: A Theif's End."
The film adaptation however, will have its own storyline as Neil Burger said of the film in an interview a few years back before dropping out of production:
"We're re-writing the script from scratch, and I'm just jumping into that literally right now, about to close the deal and leap off. Until the screenplay is written you never know who's going to be acting in it or not. But there are a lot of good actors out there who even look like Nathan Drake and who could do it. I love the project, I think it's a great adventure and it's a wild insane ride ... the game is and the movie will be. I mean it has pretty great character at its core, Nathan is a bit of a con man, a hustler ... knows his stuff, ballsy..it's great. Absolutely. And then you know you have to do what a movie does best, as well ... build on what's cool about the game and then make it into a movie. Yeah there will be (balance) in this one, this one is a very great adventure, and it's just a matter of pulling out the the [sic] very cool intense stuff that works for the film story, and making sure the story supports those elements and also makes us really connected to the character."
We'll keep you updated on the latest "Uncharted" movie news coming from San Diego Comic-Con '14.
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