At a recent IMAX
screening of Real Steel, Shawn Levy talked a little about the highly
anticipated adaptation of Uncharted, the popular action adventure video game centered
on roughish explorer Nathan Drake, which Levy will both direct and produce.
"I’ve been interested in this project for years. I’ve
played and loved every iteration of the game. I think it’s largely a popularly
accepted notion that it’s as cinematic a game as we’ve had, maybe ever,
certainly of late. And it’s cinematic in that it’s not only wildly visual, but
it’s really rooted in character and a very specific tone and a sense of fun,
right? When is the last great, fun, fucking action-dynamic, treasure-hunting
movie? Right? It’s not Indiana
Jones, it’s not National
Treasure; it’s very specific, it’s all kind of anchored in Nathan’s
tone.
So I’ve been interested in it, and I’ve just been
quietly letting people know I’ve been interested in it, but other people have
been involved, I’ve been busy, and a moment finally appeared recently where I
was like, “Me! Okay, me!” Sony and the producers involved were like, “Yeah,
that actually makes perfect sense.” I’m like, “Yeah! That’s what I’ve been
saying for a little while.”
I am unabashedly thrilled to be making that next year."
Yes, you read it right. The long in development Uncharted
goes into production next year, specifically in the late spring, early summer.
As for casting, Levy says he won't cave in to outside
(fans) pressure even though he appreciates the input.
"I’ve been
pitched everyone. God bless you, Twitter, but I made a joke that, “You’re
saving me the money of hiring a casting director, Twitter,” because from
Nikolaj [Coster-Waldau] to Oscar Isaac, [Nathan] Fillion, everyone that you
would, [Chris] Pratt, Chris Evans, Chris Pine, I mean the suggestions are…
It’s every actor who
is ruggedly handsome, which is to say every movie star, and who looks anything
like the square-jawed, chiseled-featured Drake. I’m not actually going to base
my casting on Twitter suggestions. Maybe I’ve even said the name in this room;
who knows?
Eventually, if people
keep suggesting ideas and actors, one of them will prove to be true. We’re very
hard at work on the script right now."
Source - Collider
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