Sony’s long-in-gestation adaptation of the smash hit video game series Uncharted has apparently gone under a major reworking. It’s now a prequel series set before the events of the games, and its hero Nathan Drake will be a youngster played by Spider-Man himself.
Image: Holland as he appears in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Nathan Drake as a child in Uncharted 4. Credit: Sony Pictures/Sony Computer Entertainment
Deadline reports that Shawn Levy’s film — itself a retooling of initial plans for an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Indiana Jones-esque action series — will now take inspiration from flashback sequences shown in the third game of the series, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, which showed the young Nathan Drake meeting his future partner-in-crime Victor “Sully” Sullivan for the first time.
Young Nate as he appeared in the PS3 video game Uncharted 3.
The website claims the vast retooling of plans for the film came when Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman saw a new cut of Spider-Man: Homecoming, which has lead to not only Uncharted getting a new re-write — with Sony allegedly currently hunting for a new writer to re-do Joe Carnahan’s cript — but also Homecoming star Tom Holland coming on board to play the young Drake.
It’s definitely not an angle many Uncharted fans would have expected the movie series to take. And perhaps it’s a little disconcerting that the whole sea change and Holland’s involvement allegedly comes from a reaction to his performance as Peter Parker, rather than out of a sense that it’s right for Uncharted. But still, we’ll have to wait and see if this iteration of Uncharted is the one that ultimately moves forward, or if it faces the same tumultuous fate past attempts at bringing Drake to the big screen have.
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8 responses to “Tom Holland Will Play Young Nathan Drake In The Uncharted Movie”
Um… okay.
This is not what I, I mean the people, want
This could be interesting actually. A prequel that explores Drake’s origins and ties into the game universe – something that actually expands the lore and compliments the games, rather than simply a movie adaption of the first game or, worse still, a movie that’s based on the games but isn’t connected to them in any way.
Well, Young Indiana Jones was a lot of fun, and at least this sounds better than the Marky Mark iteration. I’ll give it a go.
I like the little fella, he does a neat non-creepy version of spidey!
Hey let’s adapt a video game to film, that’ll work out well.
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Well… you can’t have a family of international tomb raiders without teenage children.