It has been through many directors and delays, but finally the film adaptation of the popular “Uncharted” video game series is about to head into production this month.
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg are set to play younger versions of the roles of street-thief turned treasure hunter Nathan Drake and his scoundrel mentor Victor ‘Sully’ Sullivan in the Ruben Fleischer-helmed feature.
Wahlberg stars in the Netflix action film “Spenser Confidential” hitting the service this week and recently sat down with Collider to discuss “Uncharted” which he dubs an origin story and then calls it both a great adventure and heist film.
“I start filming in about two weeks time. It’s exciting because, without giving too much away, it’s more of an origin story. Meeting them, and Nathan becoming Nathan. Sully and him meeting, trying to not only get over on each other, but also starting to partner up and develop that relationship.
It’ll be very cool. It’s the first time I’m in a movie that’s a movie. I felt like when I was reading it, I was reading Indiana Jones or Thomas Crown Affair. It’s got these great elements of these heist movies and adventure movies like I’ve never been a part of.
I was attached for years and years to play Nathan Drake and now I’m playing Sully. Even with The Fighter, there was a ticking clock there. There was that biological clock. We gotta’ get going quickly.”
Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali and Tati Gabrielle co-star in the film which is targeting a March 2021 release.
