According to a “well-placed source,” Atlas Entertainment (the production company responsible for the amazing Twelve Monkeys and Three Kings) has just purchased the film rights to PlayStation 3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
Nothing has been confirmed or denied, but we here at Destructoid will, of course, keep you updated once we learn more.
My two cents: We all want videogames to be a respected medium, right? Uncharted is one of the most awesomely cinematic experiences I have ever had playing a videogame. To be honest, it may be better than most action movies as you can actually watch and play.
So why mess with it? Why not just leave it be and have people admire and respect it for the piece of art that it already is? Will a movie version really make it any better?
What do you all think? Do you agree with me, or would you love to see Uncharted on the big screen? If all this is true, who do you think would make a good Nathan Drake?
[Via Gaming Today]
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2:24 PM on 05.08.2008
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Why? Because someone figures that he or she can make money off of it. Heck, look at how well movies like Sahara and National Treasure I & II did in the theaters. How could this not make money for them?
National Treasure had a sequel? I thought it just came out. wtf
National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets
lol @ linuxguy
I think that this movie would be done without a wheel chair and a cane.
Bad Chad! Now go sit in the corner and just you think about what you've done!
In elementary school I wrote a BOOK REPORT on Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
Confused.
See, unless you have a star attached who likes the script for some reason (and that usually takes a very well-placed and powerful agent), the only way you can get a movie made with a big enough budget is if you can go to the guys with money, who have no idea what a creative person is usually talking about, and tell them: 'see? you're guaranteed at least 20 million because the game sold x number of copies!', etc.
They won't make the movie to honor the game, they'll make it because it's a safe investment. Then the filmmakers will say up and down how they're being 'true to the origins' of the original, etc., because if they didn't, they're undercutting that in-born audience they've just sold to the investors.
That's how the Entertainment Industry works, might as well get used to it. Until we can figure out a way to invert the process and have the creative types controlling the money as they see fit, we will always be stuck with this system.
Both shit as well.
Glad to see there are like minded individuals out there!
I think this will be a great movie so long as Nathan Fillion is in it , I think Ryan Reynolds would do a good job too though.
As I was telling Rev yesterday, Fillion could pretty much just play the part of Mal from Firefly/Serenity, and it’d apply to Uncharted just fine.
Does this mean that Video Games are the new books? You know how everyone says, "oh the book was way better", since there has yet to be a great video game movie and no one really is reading books.....