The Uncharted movie has been in development for a very long time but it's finally starting to take shape with a director in the form of Shawn Levy (Real Steel) and a lead star in Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming). The casting of the Marvel actor came as a surprise to some because he's so much younger than the Nathan Drake from the games but we quickly learned that this will be an origin story.
If you've played pretty much any one of the four PlayStation exclusive adventures revolving around the action hero, you'll know that Nate's origin story has already been well explored but comments from producer Charles Roven (Justice League) point to the movie actually standing apart from those.
"We’ve come up with a wonderful origin story but it’s still based on the Uncharted video game. It doesn’t take place during any of the time period of any of the Uncharted video games. It actually takes place when Nathan Drake (who’s the lead of that game) and Sully, I guess you’d call him his surrogate father, were much younger. It’s an origin story that evolves out of the game but is not from the game. Shawn Levy is going to be directing it and a young writer Rafe Judkins is currently writing the screenplay."
It definitely sounds like the movie will be inspired by the game but not a direct prequel to them as it "evolves out of the game but is not from the game." That makes sense for a lot of reasons and it's interesting that the project is undergoing another rewrite, this time from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer Rafe Judkins. Uncharted still has no release date so we'll have to wait and see when it lands.
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