@Noks415:
The hammer is his penis...to clarify.

FireflyPunk

Nathan fillion for drake

icko

@Noks415:
It'd be like the second coming of Christ...

FireflyPunk

@Fadakar:
Captain Hammer!

Noks415

'romancing the stone' parallels abound.

sqoon

@Noks415: Dr. Adam!

Fadakar

@Noks415: I cannot express in words how much I agree with you. Abso-f'ing-lutely.

kylenalepa

This might not be terrible. Uncharted wasn't an epic like Final Fantasy or deep like Silent Hill. It's just a feel good action adventure, which I think is much easier to pull off on screen.

Mister_Jack

Dear god yes, an Uncharted movie would be great

Sparx

Uncharted is much like Max Payne, as both games incorporated elements found in the film industry. Ultimately, adapting either game to a film is essentially grabbing the material "borrowed" from the industry to begin with and recycling it. It's not going to end well and will come across as mediocre and unoriginal due to the contrast between the gaming and film industry.

B33

Im interested. i really enjoyed uncharted. hell i enjoyed indiana jones 4 despite all of its faults so i'm sure i'll enjoy this just fine >^.^<;;;;

demonknightinuyasha

Nathan Fillion has to be cast as Nathan Drake.

Noks415

Who said that movie adaptations of video games were offensive because they undermined video games potential as a story-telling medium? Was it Destructoid's Jim Sterling? Because he was right on the moeny.

Redface

"So, more talking, more sexual tension, less gunplay."

Dammit. Roughly translated, they need to get some shots of a babe in skimpy underwear, plug in some innuendo, and the only way to fit this in is to splice out all the good stuff.

AvidAbey

Uncharted was a bit too cornball for my tastes. Leave the visuals and animations, but you can keep the dumb plot and cheesy dialogue. I laughed, like, once.

Rollin

@DukeOfPwn:

Um... why not - ***VAGUE SPOILERS***

Nah, Drake was an out-for-himself treasure hunter. Even when he gets to the island with Elena, he very quickly decides to forget the search for his ancestor's legacy because it becomes too challenging - only Elena reels him back in.

Drake's evolution into The Good Guy is one of the (several) reasons for the gameplay switch-up towards the end, with the enemies that everyone seems to think were a horrible, stupid idea.

Nobody notices that without those enemies, and without the treasure that creates them, Drake would have no incentive to change from Greedy Treasure Hunter to Guy Who Saves The World. The story of Drake's Fortune is the slow transformation of Drake from a wisecracking treasure hunter to a wisecracking hero archetype.

Chances

@sqoon: Should we switch everybody's Nathan Fillion hopes to Michael Douglas and/or Kathleen Turner?

Rollin

This movie will remind me Magnun P.I. I mean, the tough guy side by side with the refined habano smoking guy.

eggnog007

Uncharted was a great game, and I think it will turn into a good movie. I hope I'm right.

spyker3292

@GrandfatherParadox:

Nice to see that someone dislikes Whedon as much as I do. I can't stand that guys work.

dead_red_eyes

@Sparx:
I can see that.

Kind of an idiot, but things seem to work out for him.

Yeah, if Fillion is busy I would take Affleck.

FireflyPunk

Avrad, really? It's that hard to write Avi Arad? Let me guess, you pronounce nuclear as 'nuke u lar'

hermes520

Keep Nathan Fillion (and anything Whedon related) away from stuff that's actually good.

GrandfatherParadox

@icko:
Could not agree more. Nathan Fillion always struck me as a perfect Drake. From the dialogue to the mannerisms, he seems perfect for the role. I actually assumed a good chunk of the inspiration for Drake came from Mal.

GKFinns

I realize I'm going to get a ton of flack for this but while Fillion would be a good choice, I can honestly see Ben Affleck as Drake. People have called me crazy for it before but I just see a lot of similiarities between Ben and Drake in both looks and personalities.

Sparx

Nathan Fillion would be a perfect drake. I really hope they make this happen.

greeble

@B33: Thank God Uwe Boll isn't directing is all I have to say. I'll sit through Uncharted and Max Payne pretty easily I bet.

Even God of War...

mfwahwah

I always thought that Nathan Drake was a good guy, from beginning to end. The only reason he ditched that girl at the dock was that he was peer pressured by Sully, and I never noticed any other instances that would qualify him as anything other than good.

DukeOfPwn

@demonknightinuyasha: @Noks415:

Haha yeah, if they can get Nathan Fillion to play the role then no matter how much they fuck up, I'll still forgive them :P

Cragen

@Rollin: douglas' weathered face wouldn't translate so well.
plus, imagine him running around in a dampened t-shirt... yeah, more of a deterrent.

sqoon

@Noks415:

Eeeee! Perfect choice!

TenP

@Redface: Wow thats a good quote. That Sterling is a smart guy.

Ra is on House

yeah! Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake FTW!!!!!!!!!!

itchy18

I thought the guy who actually voiced Nathan Drake looked quite a bit like the character in some ways. He's an actor and he IS the voice, why not just cast him?

bluerei

The only game movie that I care about at the moment is Bioshock. They can screw up every other game movie as far as I'm concerned, but if they butcher Rapture then heads will roll. ;)

kosbee

Uncharted was the single-most derivative, blatantly exploitative game I've ever played in my life. When it ran out of popular games to copy from, it started copying from movies and television.

That said, it was still great fun and one of (if not the) best PS3 game yet...or still. Unfortunately, I'm not sure the game's sub-par, derivative story would play well on the big-screen. The whole time I was playing I couldn't help feel I was watching some USA Network prime-time show...

Anyone else feel the same way?

loserguy

There's no way they can screw this up... everything is practically done for them.

Schoolimangooli's backpack turns into a ham sandwich!

Is this necessary? It seems not. It seems very unnecessary to make a movie out of every popular/well-selling game. Shame be on them human beasts!

Metal_Slug_Solid

@Noks415: The other day, while playing through Uncharted for the fourth time, I thought to myself, Nathan Fillion would be GREAT as Drake.

thegreatpablo

@icko: That would be perfect, I just finished watching Firefly on Hulu, and I had seen Serenity earlier, his character was awesome! Are they ever going to make more of that show? He was amazing in Dr. Horrible too, of course.

FreakyFavabean

@Sparx: But the only people who can successfully direct Affleck in making a movie where his acting doesn't suck are Kevin Smith and John Woo. I mean, I can see where you're coming from, I just don't know if he'd be able to pull Drake off.

Thorn

@B33: This is 2008. We have been borrowing and re-borrowing our own material for at least 30 years now. This is inevitable.

Don't believe me? Look at how poorly "video game movies" perform at the box office. And still Hollywood is compelled to make them. Why? Because reappropriating appropriated material is in our DNA, as of the 1980s, maybe a bit earlier.

peAr nectAr

Indiana jones always did the right thing? Had perfect morals?

He pulled out a gun and shot a guy in a knife fight. Anyone who plays Counterstrike knows that's a damnable offense.

Sounds like the perfect game-based movie.

Defoliantonthemoneytree

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Jeffrey Donovan as Nathan Drake.

Dear god please let someone get the message. Please.

DarknessMyOldFriend

Frankly when it comes to Uncharted, and believe me it was surprisingly fun to do, me and my friends popped some popcorn and beat the game together. Great flick.

Psudonym

I can actually see Nolan North and Emily Rose reprising their characters on the big screen, they both look alot like Nathan and Elena.

Sporkus

@loserguy: you just might be the only one.

Noks415

Nathan Fillion as Drake and Bruce Campbell as Sully!

sushimandan

@loserguy:

"exploitative"?

The game was an homage. Pure, unfiltered, unadulterated homage to American pulp, the same stuff that inspired Indiana Jones. 'Cept with Uncharted, they tipped it into the modern era. If it had been actually exploitative, it would have been a shallow copy of the material that inspired it. It wasn't. There were more than a few fresh twists, that spelled out they knew their source material inside and out. Not only that, the game effortlessly reflected how much they heart American pulp fiction. Hence, homage.

Haven't had a funner time with a game in a long time.

Jander

@Noks415:

He could quickly become Captain Tightpants-shirt-tucked-in. It's like Indy's hat, never freakin' comes off.

Fillion would be fantastic for the role.

Jander

@itchy18: There's definitely a Whedonesque-vibe running all the way through Nate's character model. He's looks like this odd (in a good way) hybrid of Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and David Boreanaz (Angel).

lucifer_goosifer

@Antiterra: *Elena (no "h")

Antiterra

Please-please-please get Emily Rose to play Helena. She's a great actress, and all of your "she doesn't look/sound like teh characterz" complaints would be instantly solved.

And I definitely agree with everyone who suggested Fillion as Drake. Malcolm Reynolds on a treasure hunt: makes sense, doesn't it?

Antiterra

For some reason looking at the photo attached to this post, Jeff Probst perplexingly jumps to the front of my mind.

Tittery

@loserguy: Yep, i do. Read my previous comm.

Whether an homage or not, it was unoriginal in almost every way. They didn't go very far in trying to make it stand apart from its source material. And what, it's modern because Nate Drake has that status quo, Justin "I'm a Mac" Long/Family Guy, stuttery, blatantly snide white man humor? Then fuck modern and pulp altogether.

The one time i laughed was when Drake was visibly mad about something and yelled out in genuine frustration -- I laughed at his misfortune. That's how the likes of, say, a Tim Allen, would produce the chuckles. It's the one and only time in the game, apart from the heroics at the end trying to save the girl, where Nate's NOT trying to be a smartass.

There's really nothing special about the plot of Uncharted, and the movie is bound to be the same. Cept with 2x the wisecracking.

Rollin

@Jander:

Agreed good choice

face0324

Drake to be played by Tommy Tallarico!

Orionsaint

@kosbee:
Garuntee they'll add anoying sidekicks. And other plane crash survivors.

fadecy

I hope they hire the voice actors to play the characters in the film. They did mocap as well so it would be great, and it would stop me thinking 'that guy is nothing like drake, he looks like tom cruise crossed with a spider monkey'

fadecy

I think (A younger) James Denton would also be a good candidate for Drake.

Mutton-Chops

Jennifer Aniston for Ellena

kratosfan

@kratosfan: actually i've always thought of Elena as more of a Jennifer Garner than an Aniston. As for Drake, I agree Fillion would be the best choice.

asTer0id

Why make a game with movie aesthetics into a movie? That's like taking MGS and making it into a movi-

Oh right.

Rinaldus

@Noks415: If he's not, it'll be a fucking crime.

MSUSteve

@sqoon: dear god no *shudders* wrong sort of cleavage

Nocturne_Rose

@Noks415: He's the only one that could play Drake...

TuxBobble