Uncharted Movie Loses Another Director | Game Rant
In the same way that Nathan Drake always finds something getting in his way during his adventures, Sony’s long-struggling attempt to produce a film adaptation of the Uncharted series has hit yet another bump in the road. Just three months after director Travis Knight was hired to helm Uncharted, it’s been revealed that he will be parting ways with the project.
A report from Deadline states that a complication has arisen due to scheduling conflicts for Avengers: Endgame actor Tom Holland, who, in addition to starring as Nathan Drake, is slated to star in the sequel to Spider-Man: Far From Home coming in 2021. As a result of Holland’s Spider-Man schedule, sources say that Sony is being forced to readjust the production timeline for Uncharted, a move that has resulted in Knight (Bumblebee, Kubo and the Two Strings) departing from the project.
Readjusting the production timeline also means that, according to Deadline, it looks like the movie will be delayed from its current release date of December 18, 2020. How much it will be delayed wasn’t specified, but Deadline did state that Holland remains attached to the project and that Uncharted is still based on the current screenplay by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Rafe Judkins.
This latest development will inevitably feel familiar to fans who have been following the live-action Uncharted’s development. Now that Knight is leaving, that makes six directors who’ve ditched the movie before production could actually begin. This started all the way back in 2011, when David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) first abandoned ship. After him came Neil Burger (Divergent) in 2012, Seth Gordon (King of Kong) in 2015, Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) in 2018, and Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) earlier this year.
It’s never been really clear why Sony has struggled for so many years (and with so many directors) to get an Uncharted movie off the ground. Sure, an intense action-adventure series wouldn’t be the easiest thing to recreate faithfully on film, but Hollywood has been making high-budget adventure movies for years, including the Indiana Jones series which Uncharted has taken much inspiration from. Whatever the reasons, they’ll likely keep Uncharted from joining the rest of the video game movies coming out in 2020.
Produced by Charles Roven, Alex Gartner, and Avi and Ari Arad, Uncharted will mark the first real partnership between Sony Pictures and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s film division, PlayStation Productions. The film will take place before the games to allow Holland to act as a younger Nathan Drake. Joining him will be actor Mark Wahlberg, who has been cast as Victor “Sully” Sullivan, Drake’s older mentor and partner. This especially serves to illustrate just how long this film has been in development, since Wahlberg was originally picked to play Nathan Drake way back when David O. Russell was attached to the project.
Uncharted is still currently scheduled for a theatrical release on December 18, 2020.
Source: Deadline
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