Venom Director 'Top Choice' to Helm Uncharted Movie

After losing its sixth director, it seems the upcoming Uncharted film might have landed its newest one in Venom and Zombieland's Ruben Fleischer. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Fleischer is Sony's ideal choice to join Tom Holland and potentially Mark Wahlberg in the project as the seventh, and hopefully final, director. Fleischer is no stranger to Sony, as Venom and Zombieland are both its properties. So, it doesn't come as a huge surprise that executives would like him to head up this major project — however, negotiations have not yet begun. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-strange-history-of-the-uncharted-movie&captions=true"] At the end of December, the news broke that Travis Knight would no longer be directing the film due to scheduling issues, which have been rumored to be a result of Holland's busy schedule with the upcoming Spider-Man movie planned for 2021. Despite the set back, reports still state that the film is on track with no major changes. Earlier this year, Sony announced PlayStation Productions, an in-house development studio responsible for turning Sony's games into movies. Shawn Layden, previous Chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios told The Hollywood Reporter, "We feel that now is a good time to look at other media opportunities across streaming or film or television to give our worlds life in another spectrum." Layden continued, "We’ve got 25 years of game development experience and that’s created 25 years of great games, franchises and stories." While nothing has been announced, Sony owns tons of different franchises that it could turn into movies, such as The Last of Us, God of War, and Spyro the Dragon, just to name a few. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/31/uncharted-every-director-the-video-game-movie-has-lost-and-why-ign-now"] In the upcoming Uncharted movie, Holland will be portraying a young Nathan Drake while Wahlberg will play Drake's mentor, Victor "Sully" Sullivan. You can catch Sony's Uncharted in theaters on December 18, 2020. In the meantime, be sure to check out the strange history of the Uncharted movie. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Andrew Smith is a freelance contributor with IGN. Follow him on Twitter @_andrewtsmith.