It’s a little know fact that everything slows down around Christmas. It’s not just shops and businesses that shut up whilst everyone scoffs themselves silly, the internet also has a Christmas break and runs at just 10% of its operating capacity.
As the world still requires Lolcats and Tweets from Justin Bieber many other equally important squims* of internet data are held in a queue and only trickle out when everyone gets back to work and the web regains 100% capacity.
This is the technical reason as to why this news from December 28th is only being reported today. As it is very important news we hope you will forgive our tardiness, this is due the aforementioned ‘Internet Christmas Delay’ and precisely the right kind of snow (the kind that’s great for having snowball fights.)
So, on to the news..
Mark Wahlberg is NOT Nathan Drake! Joystiq spoke to Uncharted 3 game director Justin Richmond and claimed
Mark Wahlberg isn’t anywhere near to being confirmed to play Nathan Drake either — it’s just Hollywood scuttlebutt, apparently.
The Director of the movie, David O. Russell, has also denied any comments about the film having a ‘Family Dynamic’ and told Naughty Dog, ‘I don’t know what these guys are talking about.’
Source: Joystiq
* A Squim is a technical measurement of internet data and equates to 2,452 Lolcats, 73458 Bieber Tweets or 2.59 Sweary TSA Podcasts.
Grey_Ghost13
There’s hope for the movie yet then! Hopefully we get somthing decnt. I would love to watch a full CGI movie about Drake from Naughty Dog, even if it was about his family dynamic!
Thechunkymunky
I second this.
All ND need to do is essentially make something like the game but without the controls. That would work :)
DrNate86
Praise Bob! Best news I’ve heard all day, and I just found out my gf is pregnant! I’m joking, it would be horrible news if she were pregnant, I’m running out of space under the floorboards.
Kennykazey
Thank god! Nathan Fillion anyone?
Scythegpd
Funny they should say that now because there is a video somewhere on the net (CBA to find it right now) where someone actually accosts O. Russel (I think it was at a convention) about Fillon > Marky Mark as Drake and the impression I got from O. Russels response was that Marky was already a shoe-in.
Could it be that … just perhaps … someone higher up might have taken notice to the mass protest and is enforcing changes for the better? I know it’s a difficult concept to process … someone actually listening to the fans. But perhaps they’ve figure out that the current info being provided all point towards another game tie-in flop that will do even worse than normal because this time even the game fans will avoid (the only similarity is the name) vs a game based movie that could be a massive success if done right.
Lets hope so … consider the Uncharted movie back on my follow list.
Rocket_345
Oh yes. Please let this entire article be true and that Russel isn’t talking out of his arse.
RudeAwakening
this is the best news since they confirmed an uncharted movie. now all we need to do is get nathon fillion to fill drakes boots.
Dany2Step
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/
noah wyle gets my vote, hes the spitting image, and hes already played a similar character in a similar story.
Flaming Turkeys
As much as I love Marky Mark, he is in no way Nathan Drake… would rather if the Bieber played him, just to see him die repeatedly. Yes I know that doesn’t happen, I just happen to have a metal bat and a map. :D
rht992
my guess is they took notice to all the cries of horror when the news first got out he may be getting the part