Seems like gamers looking forward to the Uncharted film adaptation finally have their lead... and it's an actor who's been in an action movie and videogame role before.
According to a post in
Screen Rant,
Mark Wahlberg has landed the coveted role of playing protagonist
Nathan "Nate" Drake in the Uncharted movie based on the first game -
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (which I coincidentally got earlier this week as part of my old game collection package!). The film, based on the Playstation 3 video game series of the same name, depicts the character as a modern day treasure hunter in an action adventure/ third person shooter of a game that has death-defying stunts and thrills similar to an
Indiana Jones or
Die Hard flick. In fact, Nate Drake's character appearance is modeled after
Jackass star
Johnny Knoxville, so you can see where all stuntman looking resemblance comes from.
With the news of Mark Wahlberg being cast in the role of Nate, I don't know what to feel at this point. I totally respect the actor, and he's a fine one at that, but I just don't see the Nathan Drake persona resonate from him. Heck, Marky Mark played
Max Payne in the 2008 film adaptation of the video game of the same name, and that didn't really meet expectations of the fans at all. Let's hope that the star of such films as
The Departed and
Shooter will be able to pull this role off. The film, based on the first game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, will be helmed by director
David O. Russell, with
Joe Pesci ad
Robert De Niro also slated to star alongside Mr. Wahlberg. No new details have risen so far, but for more info on this update,
check out the source article at Screen Rant.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is slated for a 2012 release.
*Originally posted by Timzster in The Crusader's Realm
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