Joe Carnahan Reveals That He's Completed His Rewrite Of The UNCHARTED Movie Script

Joe Carnahan Reveals That He's Completed His Rewrite Of The UNCHARTED Movie Script

Joe Carnahan has taken to Instagram to reveal that he's finished work on the latest draft of Sony's Uncharted movie. However, he's not directing as the film is slated to be helmed by Shawn Levy.

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By MarkJulian - Jan 08, 2017 09:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Uncharted
Source: Gamefragger.com
Joe Carnahan (The A-Team, The Grey) is the latest in a long line of Hollywood creatives hired to work on Sony's live-action Uncharted movie.  Though he's known as a writer/director, Carnahan is only working on the Uncharted script as the film will be helmed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, This Is Where I Leave You). 

Carnahan and Levy are but two of the latest names signing up for the project after creatives such as David O. Russell (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook), Neil Burger (Limitless, Divergent) and Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, upcoming Baywatch reboot) have all departed the project for various reasons.

The film has been in development since 2008 and the closest it ever came to actually filming was a few years back when Mark Wahlberg was attached to star.  Wit the disappointing performances of Assassin's Creed and Warcraft, Sony has to at least feel a little nervous about moving forward with the pic.  Likewise, Warner Bros. and MGM can't be pleased with box office return delivered by 2016's video game movies as they are knee-deep in development on a Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander.

Still the pairing of Carnahan and Levy is an intriguing one and provides some optimism that Uncharted could finally be the film to crack the video game movie code.




On Instagram, Carnahan captioned the photo of the script cover with, "Done and Dusted. Now the REAL work begins. If there's a more monstrously cool action script in Hollywood right now, I wanna read it, 'cuz this thing is a BEAST."
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BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 1/7/2017, 8:29 PM
A few years ago I'd have said Joe Flanigan would be a good choice and now I say just play Uncharted 4 instead. Why make a movie when the game will only be better than it? So instead make a new IP. Plus when was the last time any video game became a good movie?

So hopefully Sony can make another movie instead, something like Rifts could be good, but I don't have faith Sony could pull off a movie like that.
Quicker
Quicker - 1/8/2017, 9:47 AM
So...

How was Assassin's Creed? I didn't see it. I saw every video game movie of the year EXCEPT that one.

And Angry Birds is still the be... *ahem* least bad of them all.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 1/8/2017, 12:36 PM
@Quicker -

Forgot that it was based on a game as I never played it. Possibly the best game movie, and not the worst animated movie I saw with my kids last year.
ComicBookGuy015
ComicBookGuy015 - 1/8/2017, 9:50 AM
Nope after ASSassin's Creed I have no faith whatsoever in this.
Quicker
Quicker - 1/8/2017, 9:51 AM
That would be funny.

The first good video game movie...

from the director of the Pink Panther remake.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 1/8/2017, 9:56 AM
@Quicker - Wow Sony always making dumb decisions seriously they need to sell their Sony Pictures division and just focus on their Playstation division.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/8/2017, 9:52 AM
Carnahan gives me faith. Smokin' Aces, The Grey, Stretch and The A-Team are good movies.

I love A-Team. It's a damn fun film that doesn't get much love.

Stretch is an obscure gem too.
Kr08
Kr08 - 1/8/2017, 9:54 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred - I love The Grey. It's my favorite Carnahan/Neeson film. Stretch was such a surprise. Chris Pine knows how to play crazy well.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 1/8/2017, 10:00 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred - Aces is still one of my favorite movies of all time. And even the A-Team (while profoundly dumb) was keenly aware of exactly how profoundly dumb it was supposed to be. "They're trying to fly a tank" is something that never fails to make me giggle like giddy schoolgirl.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/8/2017, 10:22 AM
@Kr08 - Chris Pine is surprisingly good at paying crazy eccentric. He should do more of it.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/8/2017, 10:23 AM
@Spock0Clock - That's why I love A-Team. It embraced how ridiculous it was.

Smokin Aces is a classic. God I love that film. Such great, sharp dialogue.
SimplyAz
SimplyAz - 1/8/2017, 12:39 PM
@Spock0Clock -

Love Smokin' Aces and really enjoyed A-Team, as someone who grew up watching the show.
Watched Stretch a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it.
Looking forward to Bad Boys 3 from Carnahan
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 1/8/2017, 9:53 AM
Uncharted has so much [frick]ing potential to be this era's Indiana Jones but after Assassin's Creed I lost my faith in Video Game Movies.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 1/8/2017, 10:46 AM
@MrFridayNights - Really? Assassins Creed is what made you lose faith in video game movies? I lost faith in them with the Mario Brothers movie.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 1/8/2017, 12:04 PM
@Mercwitham0uth - I wasn't born when that piece of shit came out.
ComicBookGuy015
ComicBookGuy015 - 1/8/2017, 9:56 AM
Brett Dalton




If Dylan McDermott was 25 years younger he would be my pick. Now he can play Joel in Loga-er I mean The Last of Us movie.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 1/8/2017, 9:57 AM
The first problem with Video Game Movies is how Hollywood always want to change the storyline and the main character example Resident Evil and Assassin's Creed.
ComicBookGuy015
ComicBookGuy015 - 1/8/2017, 9:58 AM
@MrFridayNights - Even though we would know the twists and turns just straight up copying the story beat for beat would be better than a shit original story.
MrFridayNights
MrFridayNights - 1/8/2017, 9:59 AM
@ComicBookGuy015 - Exactly thats how Uncharted can be a good movie seriously the Uncharted games are basically movies.
antman8o8
antman8o8 - 1/8/2017, 9:58 AM
This is going to be an absolute mess. Especially since this is one of my favorite game franchises & stories ever told/played. The Uncharted game series were movies unto themselves. As good as Joe Carnahan can be this movie won't even hold a light to the way the games compelling stories were written. It would be obvious to cast Nolan North in the live action role too but Hollywood is too stupid to even figure that out. There's a reason why most good game stories are told in games - because they work in that medium. But yes, let's continue. Assassins's Creed did so well, we saw how the Resident Evil movie franchise rotted faster than a Raccoon City corpse and oh let's not forget the upcoming Tomb Raider movie..
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 1/8/2017, 9:58 AM
So... is this a good thing, or a bad thing?

Cloak & Dagger Season Budget Matches Marvel’s Netflix Series

http://screenrant.com/cloak-dagger-budget-freeform-marvel-netflix/

For all the great things about the Netflix series, their production values have never seemed to be all that high to me. (Though filming in NY and having a fairly expensive cast probably eats up money that C&D can use for visual effects.)
RancidBane
RancidBane - 1/8/2017, 10:00 AM
@Spock0Clock - there was already a post about this.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 1/8/2017, 10:03 AM
@RancidBane - Oh, didn't see it.

Or I should say, my seeing eye dog that reads the site for me and transcribes my comments for me every day didn't see it because he usually only checks the main.

Because I'm blind. Also "ruff ruff, I'm really a dog".
RancidBane
RancidBane - 1/8/2017, 10:05 AM
@Spock0Clock - LOL
GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/8/2017, 10:26 AM
@Spock0Clock - I think the production value for Daredevil, for example, went up in season 2. The cinematography was also a lot more cinematic.

I think the visual effects aren't top notch, but the shows look very well produced. I'd compare it to Sherlock.
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