Uncharted director Ruben Fleischer explains what he took from the games and how Tom Holland's fan feedback changed scenes.
The film adaptation of Uncharted has been a long time coming. Sony originally started developing the project in 2008, shortly after the first game in the series launched. The film was passed between directors, producers, and casts for over a decade. As gamers would say, it was stuck in “development hell.”
Adapting a film-inspired game When the Venom director originally came onto the project in 2020, he had only played the first game in the series, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. As soon as he got the gig, he played through the rest of the series, with Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End becoming his favorite. He notes that the car chase in that title is his favorite car chase in any medium ever and one he’s itching to adapt in a film.
Even with those similarities, there are a lot of differences, too. It’s just as much informed by Pirates of the Caribbean as it is Uncharted. The more film-inspired riffs on the premise are what help it stand up on its own, rather than putting it in competition with an unparalleled, interactive blockbuster game.
“We wanted to show that Nate was somebody who wasn’t some hardened, jaded action-star. He was just a kid who got brought on this adventure,” Fleischer says. “Perhaps over time, he’ll become more callous and bloodthirsty, but for the sake of this film, it didn’t feel true to our version of the character to have him wantonly shooting people … the violence just seemed a little excessive.”
“There’s a little bit of a video game logic to certain aspects of the action, but that’s a good thing.”
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