Uncharted Film Gets Conan Writers to Scribe Drake’s Fortune
A few months ago before the release of Uncharted 2 on PS3, there was a report that a film version of the popular game series would be made into a movie. Since then not much has been heard until now, our friends at Latino Review are reporting that original writer, Kyle Ward will not be writing Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for Sony citing Ward’s work on Hitman 2 preventing him from getting Sony a script sooner.
It is looking like the studio is going to hire Conan screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer to write the screenplay. While this deal has yet to be finalized, Latino Review is certain that it will be announced in the trades sometime soon.
I have read some of the Conan script and its okay, I think these 2 guys can do fine with the Uncharted source material which will probably combine Indiana Jones and James Bond and that hip new style of parkour stunts, which I am down with. I also like the production team of Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner. I mean you have 2 guys that have been associated with some big budget comic films in Batman and Spiderman.
The story follows a descendant 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.
I really like the idea of Chris Pine in this role.
