Spider - Man himself, Tom Holland is stepping into another Sony - owned franchise, by starring in
the Uncharted video game movie adaptation.
Shawn Levy discusses his role as producer on Arrival, Stranger Things season 2,
the Uncharted video game movie adaptation - and more!
Not exact matches
The underrated madman behind The Grey, Smokin» Aces, and the wildly underrated The A-Team is still attached to direct Bad Boys For Life (the third Bad Boys
movie), but he's also written the most recent version of the
Uncharted video game adaptation and is planning to tiptoe on some sacred ground with a remake of The Raid.
Set aside your concerns about Mark Wahlberg portraying PlayStation 3 action hero Nathan Drake in the big screen
adaptation of
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, because it doesn't sound like this
movie is based on the
video game at all.
On top of all those, other big
movies opening in 2017: Steven Spielberg's
adaptation of Ready Player One, Pixar's new Dia De Los Muertos
movie Coco, a remake of Murder on the Orient Express, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant, Andy Serkis» motion - capture Jungle Book: Origins
movie (not to be confused with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book
movie arriving in theaters in 2016), Christopher Nolan's new WWII action
movie Dunkirk, the
video game adaptation Uncharted; Ninjago, Barbie and Emoji
movies (scraping the bottom of the brand barrel); live - action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson, new Beauty and the Beast and The Mummy
movies, Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, restart of Kong: Skull Island, Tom Cruise in Doug Liman's sci - fi Mena, plus Luc Besson's return to epic sci - fi with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
While last year's release
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End also explores Nathan Drake's backstory and history prior to the events in the original
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
video game, there is no indication in Deadline's report that the
movie adaptation will take inspiration from the plotline of A Thief's End.
However, while recent reports suggest headway is finally being made on production, and that the finished article might not be as disastrous as other famous
video game - film
adaptations, there are, nevertheless, plenty of arguments against making an
Uncharted movie in the first place.
As the majority of critics will never have played an
Uncharted game in their life, their reviews will undoubtedly be coloured by their memories of the good Dr. Jones (the closest cinematic analogue) which, combined with the almost universally negative perception of
video game movie adaptations that already exists, could severely limit the film's box office success.