It's time for another installment of Anonymous Hollywood Insider Reports, here on Joystiq. Last time we caught wind of some
Hollywood fat cats eying up the BioShock license like a so many pounds of plasmid-injected steak (Take-Two's chairman later listed a cinematic adaptation of the property under "
potential opportunities"). This time, a well-placed source close to the deal tells us that the movie rights to Naughty Dog's highly cinematic action-adventure game,
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, have been optioned by Atlas Entertainment. There isn't much else to go on besides that; the project has yet to be formally announced and is still in the earliest stages (that is to say: being written). When asked for comment, an SCEA spokesperson told us, "We have not made any announcements regarding movie options."
With the
original tomb raider hitting theaters again this year, and a sequel to the well-received game all but confirmed, a Hollywood tie-in seems like a perfect fit (and by perfect fit, we mean
half-tucked). The real debate will be over who plays dashing (yet
pirate-murdering) hero, Nathan Drake. Our lunch money is on that guy from Firefly ... he's perfect, right? And get this: his name is already Nathan. Talk about
kismet.
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But it's Hollywood so be prepared to see Uncharted: Drake's Fortune starring Ben Affleck or something like that...
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Please, Lord, please do not let Ben Affleck be involved with this movie in anyway.
Thanks
PS. And please destroy my enemies.
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Uncharted: Rob Schnider's Fortune
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Mutant Enemy
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But I agree, Nathan Fillion is great...
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No but seriously thats like saying you dont ever need to see another action movie because you like the original die hard movie so much...
I think uncharted would make an excellent movie...But as a nod to indiana jones... more Nazi's and more nazi zombies.
watching nazi's and nazi zombies get killed will never be boring
They even got the jeep run through the jungle on the edge of a cliff!
What film spawned this videogame franchise? Can you remember the guy with the hat and the whip? Yeah I forgot the directors name too. I'm drawing a blank...
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They were a very different flavor from their predecessors, but by no means butchered
Indiana Jones is a Lucas Film property and Lucas like to have an iron grip on everything.
And yes, Episodes 1-3 were a horrible blight upon the planet and need to be scrubbed from history lest the future think badly of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain
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http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/uncharted_elena.jpg
...wanna hit the edit button there Ted?
It's been a while since I played it (I gave up when the zombies came) but I vaguely remember her being pretty hot :)
Drake's voice acting was very good and i wouldn't want anyone else emulating it and ruining Drake as a character.
No idea about the characterization though, as I said I've not played the game.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says Orlando Bloom us perfect for it.
:(
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To keep the Firefly-themed coincidence train going, the game's score was written by Greg Edmundson, who scored Firefly.
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At least it isn't Uwe Boll doing the movie though.
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