Time for another bit of movie news.
Earlier on, we wrote about David O. Russell dropping out from the supposedly “in development” Uncharted movie. Now, /Film has news that Sony will be going with a script that’s closer to the source material than the one Russell has been talking about lately. According to the /Film post, he left the project due to creative differences with Sony, who, fortunately and apparently want a film that was more in line with the hit Playstation 3 games.
David O. Russell’s original take on the Uncharted involved switching Nathan Drake’s usually solo outings into a family affair. Yep, you read that right, Russell’s script was going to place him in a family, which is supposedly “a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities … [a family] that deals with heads of state and heads of museums and metes out justice,â€
Does that sound like the same Nathan Drake from the games to you? I think not. Conan remake writers Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer have an early draft which will most likely be the one Sony goes forward with. Also, Mark Wahlberg, who was originally slated to star as Nathan Drake, won’t be coming on board this time. Well, that’s just great. They can finally give what the fans have been clamoring for by putting Nathan Fillion in the role.
Interestingly enough, one comment on the post also points to one Joe Flanigan. Now that it’s been brought up, he DOES look a lot like Drake. What do you think?
Source: [/Film]
