Can We Please Just Give Up on the Uncharted Movie?

just get Naughty Dog to make an animated movie that way we still have the same Nate we all know and love

and it's not like they couldn't because the games are like blockbuster movies anyway

I reckon the director saw the Nathan Fillion pilot, realised he couldn’t top that in a million years, so just surrendered.

Its strange this is one of those IPs that screams it can work and can be a good movie

Cus it has a plot, it’s realistic, etc...

Sic Parvis Ma... ke it stop already.

Been saying this for years

let us just stop trying to adapt every single game into a movie or tv show.

they never work out and always are bad.

that sonic movie is another thing that should have never happened...

This will get made when the Halo film gets in production.

@jdv95 What Sonic movie, the animated one from the 90s? I agree, it's pretty cheesy, but then so was Sonic in the 90s... well, so is Sonic at any time, really, if we're being honest.

@RogerRoger nope this one.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3794354/

@RogerRoger Before you click that link, take a deep breath and enjoy the last few seconds of not knowing that movie exists

Looks like we are into uncharted territory!

We've already got four of them, we don't need a fifth.

It really is a Lost Legacy.

@get2sammyb Honestly, I don’t think the stories in Uncharted have ever stood out in terms of story. The 4th a little, but not great it anything, just pretty good. They’re amazing games with great characters, but even amongst games I’d argue they’ve never really stood out. I think plenty of games have much better story, and not just recent ones. I’ve never understood why the “stand out” so much. Plenty of games have stories to compete with great movies. Uncharted doesn’t. Its set pieces have movies compete with the games, but not the story.

True, this movie is not going to happen, Hollywood don’t know how to adapt game series.

The Uncharted series is a predictable cinematic experience even on a gaming console, can't imagine how boring it could be to have a 2 hours movie full of collapsing bridges...

Animated series would be the way to go at this time...other than that, if I was to look at directors for a movie like this, I'd choose either Steven Spielberg or James Cameron. Both always have the visual effects backed up for them, and this, to make a hit movie, would definitely need that. Plus, if Spielberg did it, nobody would call it a true Indiana Jones rip off (which you know would happen, but also, Spielberg did the Indiana Jones movies, so they wouldn't have too much to complain about). Other than that, if it's taking this long, it's time to give up on the whole idea. I don't think the Ratchet and Clank movie did too well, and as many other video games-movies go, not many do (besides the fact that I still love Silent Hill and for some reason still have memories of seeing Mortal Kombat with a large audience in theaters...and I also enjoyed the Super Mario Bros movie). In other words, what I'm really trying to say, an Uncharted movie is going to need a big budget...not a big budget, horrible movie.

@IBeAGamer Uncharted 2 has more GOTY awards than all the games made you know by who combined.

At this point they may as well just scrap the project, it's never even got close to being in production and by the time it does the characters will largely be forgotten anyway. With the best will in the world Nathan Drake and the others aren't Mario or Sonic or even a Lara Croft, they are good PS exclusives buy nothing more and we're not even likely to see another game for a long time if ever

Ive been wary of an uncharted movie since it was announced. I agree a TV show with a season long arc would be better. After sitting through the borefest assassins creed movie ive given up on game movies. Ok I should have given up after doom, Prince of persia, hitman and especially max payne but I had hope dammit

@carlos82 I respectfully disagree. Of course that it can’t compete with Mario and Sonic, but Uncharted today is way more popular than Tomb Raider. Better games, more sales, etc. The characters are better, Chloe is way more interesting than this new Lara Croft.
Anyway, I don’t trust Hollywood to make a movie about Uncharted, better forget about this idea.

@PS_Nation agree about lara croft.

the latest tomb raider movie did not even break even ( it earned less then the budget spend on it) as far as i know.

so lara is a played out character both in movies and the games acording to the sales.

(you could say that the games sell poorly because they are not uncharted) so uncharted has a lot more going on then just being a good PS exclusive. it set a new bar that so far has never been beaten by any modern tomb raider.

Nobody cares. That Assassins Creed movie was one of the most boring things I've ever watched.

@jdv95 "you could say that the games sell poorly because they are not uncharted) so uncharted has a lot more going on then just being a good PS exclusive. it set a new bar that so far has never been beaten by any modern tomb raider"

This. Rise of the Tomb Raider was a really good game. It suffered because a) the xbox year long exclusivity and b) it wasn't quite reaching the same heights as Uncharted (which to even come close to is a huge achievement).

@jdv95 Oh, I didn't know you worked in movies! That must be really awesome! You probably can't say much else about the new Sonic film at this early stage, but I'm sorry to hear that your impressions of the rough edit are bad. I'll keep that in mind whilst waiting for the trailer, thanks for the early heads-up.

It will happen. Thanks.

@jdv95 Exactly, the new movie also failed and probably will not have a sequel because of the poor numbers. The new game also didn’t receive many great scores, the sales are low, it even received a discount after few weeks of the release date.

@RogerRoger not sure if serious but i don't work in the movie industry.

i just pulled up that link to show you the new upcoming movie and the reason i'm not hyped for it at all is because the character artwork looks less then great and the fact that most if not all previous movies about games are awfull.

@grahamd that's why most movie adaptations don't work.

the games work great because they are games.

having to adapt it into a movie will either hurt the plot or characters because it is a different scale you are working with.

@IBeAGamer Its the human saltshaker. 😁

Dunno why they're making a movie, it will only Sully the Uncharted name.

@PS_Nation I play games, not awards my friend.

@Flaming_Kaiser PS_Nation is so easy to annoy even if my opinion is mine alone.

Story in gaming isn't the same as in a movie - Who would watch an 8-20hr movie - so you can argue there is more filler in games to extend the game-play. That in itself is another aspect to, the story is often designed to lead into more action etc to make a game.

Take God of War which constantly ends up with back tracking or side-stepping to find some tool/upgrade to continue on your path - yet if that was a 'film', with each act ending at a wall that required the main character to fight the same 'enemies' in a different setting to acquire a tool to progress and then fight more of the same enemies until you hit that next wall etc, it would get very tedious and overly long - certainly would be edited down to ~2hrs.

Point is, there is a difference between stories for each medium. You also have a different attachment to characters if you just watch them for entertainment or play through their adventure with them - even more if you get to 'create' your character.

Uncharted could very easily work on the big screen. Indiana Jones has so why not Nathan Drake? Get it wrong though and it could be more 'Crystal Skull' than 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. Personality wise, Indy and Nate share some characteristics and the first 3 movies also had that 'mystical' element. The problem is trying to appeal to more than just 'gaming fans' without coming across as a weak Indiana Jones copy - standing up on its on merits. Trying to balance character development whilst keeping him 'true' to the game character as well as balancing action and story etc won't be easy. It would almost be easier to drop 'Nate' as the lead character - focus on what happened after Uncharted 4's epilogue. Nate could still be a cameo role but you could have a 'fresh' character to develop - Cassie for example - with 'fresh' stories rather than try and do Nate and Sully and getting it wrong.

@PS_Nation with Lara I was thinking about in her prime, Lara was huge in the 90's and was even advertising cars, most of that is gone now but there will be some who believe they can get her back to that and so I can see why she got another chance at the cinema. My point is those characters and the likes of Pokemon and even Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter back then were famous outside of the gaming world and where as Nathan Drake isn't anywhere near that level.

I agree the Uncharted games are better and I prefer the stories but they are struggling to get anything going because it's not a far reaching name outside of PlayStation. I can easily imagine how we could make a great Indiana Jones style movie with these characters but then again I could see how Resident Evil could have been made into a great horror movie but we saw how that turned out. At this point I think it's just dead in the water and I'm more curious how the series moves forward from the quite brilliant Uncharted 4

It'll happen. Will Ferral will play Drake & John C Riley will play Sully. It'll be flipping awful...

Aaannnd this is why we don't announce things before there is something to show.

"the problem is the Uncharted games have like direct to DVD plots at best"

Well, the same could be said of the Tomb Raider games, but those movies did okay.

That being said, that's all it needs to be - one for the fans. Get ND to do a script. Use the actors from the game - they're all very capable actors in their own right, and the voices and actions would be spot on, which would be better for the fans than some Hollyweird A-listers inevitably screwing up the characters. Instead of making a poor blockbuster, make an outstanding B-movie.

Straight to VHS. Next stop: bargain bin.

Unfortunately I'm in the extreme minority where I think the Nathan Fillion short was absolute rubbish and that he's way too old to be playing Drake, but hey. This movie just needs to quietly exit the building now - it's never going to live up to the games.

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