David O. Russell responds to Uncharted movie fan concerns

@doubtingthomas

Am I the only person here who thought "The Fighter" and "Three Kings" were really, really, good movies, and willing to give David Russell the benefit of the doubt until we see some footage?

@copa

It's not that he's a BAD director, it's that he's an inappropriate choice when we consider the type of movie that we all hope Uncharted would be, which, at the end of the day, is basically just a modern day Indiana Jones. (Fun action/adventure set pieces, daring escapes, witty banter, light romantic elements, lots of bullets, etc.)

It's like asking Alfred Hitchcock to direct Die Hard --- just a bad combination.

Russell is digging himself deeper and deeper the more he opens his mouth though.

@copa No you're not the only one. People are throwing fits because Nathan Fillion wasn't cast as Drake, and it's not playing out exactly like they imagined it would in their little fan boy heads. I love Nathan Fillion and think he would have been dope for the role, but let's go ahead and get over it and just wait and see what happens. I guarantee everybody on here whining about it will see this movie in theaters. Period.

@doubtingthomas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-cxYzTqk30&feature=related

@copa

Those were the only Russell movies I've seen and I loved them both, I think he's a great fit for Uncharted. Fanboys will whine.

@doubtingthomas

Yes, and who calls anything propulsive? I suppose it is a good alternative to repulsive.

@Asakura H
That's about EVERY attempt by hollyweird and I did enjoy 'The Fighter' too! Them libertardic hollyweirdos just can't figure out Absolutely Everything and have now run to comic books! and remakes of old tv shows to cash in now. Attempts at making flicks outta games have been running 1 to Uncountable on the scale. 'Mortal Combat' pulled in the bennies despite taking long number two all over it and That Is It for them.

@copa

I really dont think its about him being a bad director or him not being able to make this movie good. Its about him taking the name uncharted and making it into something totally different. Think of the american super mario brothers 2. The game had nothing to do with the Mario universe besides having the Mario characters in it. It was a completely different game they threw the name on and passed it off as Mario for the sake of it.

Based on all his ideas on what this movie will become, its going to turn into one of those situations where people see the movie then go play the game and ask: "How are these even related?"

@friendlygummybear

You've got it all wrong. King Koopa was definitely a T-Rex.

It sounds like Russell is assuming that the void of good movies based on video games is a result of film makers trying to stay too faithful to ideas from the games.

Ironically, the only good video game movie is the one that changed the least in the transition from game to film.

@copa
Please, this is a gaming site. Nobody here even knows the titles of any good movies.

@nonnie

You obviously havent been keeping up with what is going on with this movie. The casting was not the big part of why people are against this movie, people are upset with how the movie is coming along itself, look through some of the older articles joystiq had on here about it and you will see why people have been reacting like this. The direction russell is going with this movie is breaking away from everything the game is and its just going to be a generic pile of crap instead of the masterpiece the games were

@copa
Let's get the important parts aside first.
1) Three Kings is a great movie, but not because of Mark Wahlberg.
2) The Fighter is a /good/ movie despite Mark Wahlberg.

You can be a fine director, but putting an awful actor as your main character will usually make the film utter shit. As stated, The Fighter was an odd exception. And as many have pointed out, there are other director's much better suited to the source material. He wants to make it something totally different and be taken seriously, when Uncharted is all about being the game equivilant of a popcorn movie.

@GentlemanWrath

Alfred Hitchcock would have been pretty good for Die Hard - the movie had a confined setting, charming lead actor, lots of story telling by visual information rather than dialogue, etc.

@bigwhiteyeti Yup, notice how he forgot to include "good" in that sentence.

And seriously. "Propulsive"? Who on earth talks like that? Already a strike against this guy.

Perhaps the interviewer misheard "repulsive"

@Pure Black World Tendency aaaaand I realized that that very comment was made right under this one. Forget I ever said it!

@Courtney

Bravo, good sir.

I think it's too late... By now, they probably have half the movie shot with Mark... I'll probably see it either way.

@TheDarkWayne

Not to mention they changed everything from the games, just like he's doing.

@Magetf

Can't express enough how right you are. It's almost as if he's saying "Almost every video game movie made to date has been trash. So I'm going to do the exact same thing every one else did."

Ugh.

@TheDarkWayne

the thing is with doom if anything the best part of that movie was the first person point it was at least a throwback to the game as well as pinky.

The issue is they felt for some reason they needed a human v Human thing which is what screwed it

SMB was ruined because it basically went we have 2 guys with moustaches now lets do something stupid with them.

If they get out the whole real world spiel from it they could have made a decent movie instead you had some poor special effects and goomba's that look nothing like them

then we have uncharted as much as i want fillion in it i don't care that he's not. He has Castle and hopefully at somepoint another DR horrible on the way

The issue is that the script is a bastardisation of uncharted that for the most part is probably another movie that's been shoehorned to try and fit in the uncharted world

when the original uncharted basically is set for a movie as it is. Theres no reason to change it. I Don't care that i know whats going to happen i just want to see an awesome adaptation and then with the sequel you go and beat your own path based on that.

instead where gonna end up with a bunch of characters that will bear little to no resembelence personality wise as they do in the game

@Jack Kevorkian

Hey, it worked for Nick Cage. Where would he be without the classic game franchise "National Treasure?"

@Chareth Cutestory

out driving angry?

@Duc748s You speak the truth. And I don't know much about David Russell, but you'd think that he would realize that EVERY TIME HE F***ING TALKS about the movie, the Internet turns into a river of flame. Hey Russell, maybe you should listen to the only people you know are interested in the movie.

It's not like we're some crazy fringe group. We are the people that played and bought the game! A logical assumption would be that we are the people who will care if someone makes a movie about it.

@KiraXD

True. I do think he's a good actor, but he definitely has a limited range, and Nathan Drake does not fall within it. If there's one thing Wahlberg is not particularly good at, it's being self-deprecating and vulnerable, which are key qualities of the Drake character. They're also qualities Nathan Fillion demonstrated in spades as Malcolm Reynolds. Hell, Indiana Jones, Malcolm Reynolds and Nathan Drake are all pretty much the same character if you think about it...and squint...

@Mika101 books to movies do okay.

@Mika101
2001 begs to differ imho :)

@Dextro you can come up with a hundred example of excellent books to movies. The Shining was a much better film than book for example and No Country For Old Men didnt lose a step on the big screen from the novel.

Not common, but happens all the time. Game to movies? ummmm...never?

@Mika101

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...nuff said.

@merdbrue8
When I submitted the story, that was the line that pissed me off the most.

@Hong Dong

We've all been hoodwinked.

David O. Russell's "Uncharted" is really a code name for a new automobile, co-designed by Ed Begley Jr., that runs on one's own sense of self worth.

@Noesmano

It sounds like he wants to make Blood Diamond, starring Marky Mark.

That'll be good, right?