When it
was announced that David O.Russell was going to be directing a film based on Sony's popular Uncharted videogame series, many gamers saw a glimmer of hope that perhaps we'd actually see a game to movie conversion that could break the genre's mold of mediocrity-at-best -- and that was before his latest film The Fighter received some serious Oscar praise.
Unfortunately hat glimmer has been snuffed today, with
Variety reporting that the director has parted ways with the project, describing an amicable split due to "creative differences". Further, O. Russell's split likely means that the rumoured cast that included Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci has also been scrapped, with Variety indicating that it was likely the producers would start from scratch.
One has to wonder what kind of creative differences studio executives could have that were so important as to conflict with an an award-winning director realising their vision. Let's hope they can find a good fit for a replacement, as Nate Drake deserves a chance at a proper treatment.
The PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is due on November 11th 2011. We'll have more details on the game following the E3 trade show next month.
Posted 02:41pm 27/5/11
he wanted the movie to be about
nice work totally ignoring the source material, retard.
last edited by ravn0s at 14:41:55 27/May/11
Posted 02:42pm 27/5/11
I think the characters and their relationships are great as is, and I don't think that should be (or needs to be) changed for the sake of a movie adaptation.
Posted 03:06pm 27/5/11
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Posted 03:24pm 27/5/11
yer i remember reading that during the making of three kings, clooney had a real go at him because of the way he was treating everyone.
Posted 04:53pm 27/5/11
Posted 02:39pm 28/5/11
The original voice actors for the games look exactly like the games characters and should be used in the movie.
Nolan North - Nathan Drake - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636046/
Emily Rose - Elena Fisher - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2448361/
Richard McGonagle - Victor Sullivan http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569501/
Whys Dave Russel such a d***? Not like his line up of movies is anything to boast about.
Posted 09:40am 28/5/11
uncharted is like an interactive movie so why would I pay to see a standard movie version?
Posted 02:00pm 28/5/11
Posted 02:38pm 28/5/11
They are not just voice actors. If you bothered to click on the link I posted you'd know this.
Posted 03:12pm 28/5/11
Posted 03:54pm 28/5/11
Emily & Richard have been in tonnes of acting roles. Nolans had alot of voice acting roles.
Posted 04:01pm 28/5/11
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Posted 04:14pm 28/5/11
You are entitled to your retarded opinion
Bruce as Sully would be interesting
Posted 04:17pm 28/5/11
Not that Nathan Fillion or Bruce Campbell are high profile actors either, and I honestly doubt that would happen, but imo they'd do much better jobs than people who are primarily voice actors and it would make for an awesome movie to watch with those two.
Edit: Oh, I thought it was me you were calling retarded
Posted 04:28pm 28/5/11
There'd be only a handful of great actors that can actually make a s*** movie good.
Its like saying Kyle Reese(Michael Biehn) or an Unknown Arnie will ruin terminator 1. It didnt.
Im guessin David Russel needs top actors in his movies or nobody would bother seeing them. When I first heard of Mark Walhberg though I thought that would be alright. Just that the voice actors in the game have alot of experience in both acting and voice overs and look exaclty the same as the game charactors. Bring in a decent director instead of changing the characters.
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