Uncharted Finds A Director

While Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystall Skull was upsetting (a few) fans when it came out, around the same time a big budget cinematic game was released that successfully riffed on the original Jones trilogy.  The Uncharted series was Indiana Jones with thumbsticks.  So it isn’t surprising to hear a movie is being made.

Its previous director, Seth Gordon, seems to be no longer attached to the movie.  Now a new director, Oscar Winner Mark Boal (“Zero Dark Thirty”) will direct the feature film adaptation.  Oh and “Guardians of the Galaxy” hero Chris Pratt was offered the role of Nathan Drake (but passed).

One of the pitfalls of a game adaptation is that directors are often called in who have never touched the source material and go off and do their own thing.  The man originally pegged to direct, David O. Russell, did such a thing, when he caused a minor furore by coming a concept for a movie that was completely alien to the series, but still called Uncharted.  Worse, Russell wanted to hire Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Drake (the lead character).  Russell departed from the project unceremoniously after fan uproar, and, (please God) took wooden pest Wahlberg with him.

An interesting question is, who could play Drake?  A lot of people have been clamoring for Nathan Fillion (good choice), but some time ago while watching The Freezer, a coarse movie about a man kidnapped by Russian mobsters, I noticed that Dylan McDermott was a dead ringer for Nathan Drake.  What about him?  At any rate, let’s hope they don’t fuck it up and count our lucky stars that Paul W.S. Anderson did not get a phonecall.

Dylan McDermott