Out doing promotion for Pixar’s “Onward,” actor Tom Holland has offered an update on the “Uncharted” movie and it looks like this thing is finally happening.
Speaking with IGN, he confirms that the long in the works adaptation of the popular video game series is slated to start shooting in Berlin in four weeks, with stunt work and pre-production well underway.
Holland will play a younger version of treasure hunter Nathan Drake with Mark Wahlberg on board as his cohort Sully. As we know, Holland said the other week this will be a semi-origin story with the action taking place a good eight years before the events of the first game.
Both the third and fourth games featured flashbacks to a young Nathan, albeit the teenage version rather than the 23-year-old one Holland will play. The actor also confirms that the fourth game will have a big influence on the film’s narrative:
“If I’m honest, one of my favorite video games ever is the fourth Uncharted game… Unbelievable. And lots of the inspiration from the film has come from that game in particular. It was interesting when I sat down with [Sony Pictures Chairman] Tom Rothman and we were talking about video games, and I was like ‘Oh, I’ve just finished Uncharted.’ And he was like ‘Well, why don’t you play Nathan Drake?’ I remember being like, ‘I would do anything to play Nathan Drake. Please, that would be amazing.'”
Ruben Fleischer will helm the film which will begin rolling around mid-March, a year our from the movie’s planned early 2021 release.
