UNCHARTED Movie Lands ZERO DARK THIRTY Scribe; Chris Pratt Passes On Lead Role
Sony's Uncharted has been in limbo for quite some time now, but a new writer has been found! Meanwhile, Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt has apparently declined an offer to play Nathan Drake...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, work is finally moving ahead on Sony's big screen adaptation of the Uncharted video game franchise as Academy Award winning screenwriter Mark Boal has been enlisted to work on the screenplay. Seth Gordon is still atached to direct. This is a departure for Boal who is best known for movies like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, but the site reveals that he is, "said to be a fan of the popular video game, which is being envisioned as a swashbuckling adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones." This should come as good news to fans of the franchise, especially as the movie has so far gone through a number of iterations. David O. Russell penned a draft he would have directed, but the unfaithful take on the popular property never went anywhere. At that time, Mark Wahlberg was attached to star, and the site reveals that Guardians of the Galaxy's Chris Pratt was recently offered the role of Nathan Drake. Unfortunately, he declined. Other writers who have worked on Uncharted include Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, David Guggenheim and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley. Thoughts?
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