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Posted By James C. about 8 months, 4 weeks ago
What do you mean "script rewrite"? I've got no hands free here!
It has been reported today that Neil Burger, writer of 2011′s mystery sci-fi thriller “Limitless”, is no longer the head writer for the upcoming movie Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and Sony Pictures has hired the help of writing duo Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, best known for Disney’s “National Treasure” movies. The writers are tasked with a complete rewrite of the movie’s script, where protagonist Nathan Drake searches for the lost treasure of El Dorado. It is unknown if the sudden change in writers will delay the movie or if Sony cut out Burger from the scriptwriting because they did not like the direction it took.
There is still no word as to the cast of the movie or an estimated release date, but given that the scriptwork is still not finished, don’t expect Drake to be swooping into theaters any time soon.
Source: Variety
Who is playing Drake? I did hear it was Matt Damon at one point :S
Why do they have to go with the first game’s plot? why not setting it somewhere else?
You know, I MIGHT have given this a chance, considering the writer, but the way this is being handled, it looks like it might never come out, and I’m getting happier for that every single time something wrong happens, because it looks like this movie is going to shit on every single aspect the games might have still held as “good”.
With the way video game movies go, I’m guessing it will be a romantic comedy set in space.
Oh, and don’t forget, his best friend will be a Talking Pie.
heh. Burger.
Ah, so they got rid of the interesting writer who probably wrote something new, and instead hired people to write something generic and safe. Why am I not surprised?
I dunno. The Uncharted series is all about modern pulp adventure, and that’s what the National Treasure series is pretty much all about. Burger, as a writer, seems to specialize more into the realm of the suspense thriller – which fits with the earlier planned screenplay where Nathan Drake is an New York antique dealer dealing with that cut-throat (possibly literally) world.
Now, that can still make for a great story (and as Johnathan Gash’s Lovejoy series of novels will demonstrate) – but if I go into a theater to see an Uncharted story, I’m expecting a thrilling adventure in exotic locations, ala Indiana Jones.
That said, if Berger gets hired to write and/or direct a Lovejoy film (and keeps it set in East Anglia), then I will be the first in line to see it on opening night. However, I don’t think he’s quite the right fit for Uncharted.
Really? We’re doing the plot of the first game? We’ve already seen it, how about we do something we haven’t seen yet?