Good News About The Uncharted Movie

Neil Burger, the new director attached to the Uncharted movie, has been talking to Crave Online and they asked all the right questions.

First, they queried Burger on the old script – would he be using David O’ Russell’s screenplay?

No, I haven’t seen his screenplay on it. Mainly we’re beginning from scratch and going back to the videogame. Because there’s a lot of cool stuff, actually, from the videogame.

Goodbye Drake’s dad! Seeya ‘Sopranos feel’! Au revoir father/son relationships! Unlike Russell, Burger seems to have played the games as he said,

It’s really one of the most cinematic videogames, and one that has really developed characters. So, you know, there’s a lot of cool, really intense things that, if they work for the film’s story, I want to use them.

David O. Russell’s take on Drake and chums was ‘a family that’s a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities… [a family] that deals with heads of state and heads of museums and meets out justice’. How does Burger view Uncharted?

Uncharted is very much up to the minute, of the moment. It’s very “now” and contemporary and it has this sort of rough and very intense feel that a movie like The Bourne Identity has. It’s really up to date in its own way. The Bourne Identity isn’t your father’s Cold War movie and this is a very different kind of treasure hunt movie.

It’s very real and it has kind of an insane, wild feeling that comes out of the character; Nate being this con man and a bit of a hustler, living by his wits,ballsy and capable of anything.

By now you should all be throwing your hats in the air and dancing on tables.

Source: Crave Online