Sony’s new video game movie Uncharted, will be written by Zero Dark Thirty’s Mark Boal
Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark Boal joined Uncharted, the upcoming movie version of the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The movie will be directed by Seth Gordon.
Boal is a journalist-turned-filmmaker who usually makes news-oriented dramas, but he recently launched Page 1 production company and happens to like the action adventure video game.
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortuneis about Nate Drake, a treasure hunter who’s great-great-great uncle or grandfather was the explorer Sir Francis Drake. The younger Drake thinks he knows where his ancestor hid a cursed statue in the fabled golden South American city El Dorado. Of course, he’s not the only treasure hunter looking for El Dorado. His competition includes Nazis and face creatures, mutated descendants of Spaniards.
Sony has not cast the lead. They almost had Mark Wahlberg, but he discovered some other treasure and Chris Pratt reportedly said no.
David O. Russell, an Oscar winning screenwriter like Boal, also wrote a draft of the script when he was supposed to direct it, but he went too far afield from the video game and that treasure is buried.
Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, David Guggenheim and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley also had a hand in writing Uncharted drafts.
Right now, Boal is writing Triple Frontier for director Kathryn Bigelow.
SOURCE: THR
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