class=”alignleft size-full wp-image-57802″ title=”Mark Wahlberg signs on for Uncharted movie” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2010/11/uncharted-2-220×150.jpg” alt=”Mark Wahlberg signs on for Uncharted movie” width=”220″ height=”150″ />Limitless director Neil Burger has emerged as the man Sony want to recruit to bring the acclaimed PS3 game Uncharted to the big screen.
David O. Russell was to follow up his Oscar winning The Fighter with the video game adaptation and had roped in Fighter actor Mark Wahlberg to star as the main character, adventurer Nathan Drake. When this venture was announced it seemed a natural move for Sony to adapt their very successful video game, which was developed by Naughty Dog studios, as the game was heavily inspired by adventure films and was genuinely cinematic in nature. Without ever going overboard Indiana Jones is perhaps the strongest influence, although those films were heavily inspired by the action adventure serials and films themselves so we’re steeped so far in incentuous sheets in a manner of speaking.
There was a notable groundswell of opposition to the casting of Wahlberg in the role of Drake, with most people assuming that Firefly man Nathan Fillion would be a natural choice, not least because he takes a punch as well as Harrison Ford, and Variety’s story makes the point that Wahlberg may not hang around on the project with Russell now gone.
Before Limitless Burger’s was perhaps best known for the 2006 thriller The Illusionist which was a handsome, earnest affair benifitting from a strong central performance from Edward Norton, and just as Bradley Cooper’s turn as the pill popping writer in Limitless made the most out of a fairly innocuous idea. If Burger is to take on the Uncharted project then an equally strong actor in the lead role. Place your bets now…
