We know Mark Wahlberg will star as Nathan Drake. We know that director David O. Russell is targeting no less than Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for the added roles of Drake’s father and uncle. But how will the Uncharted movie ultimately string these elements together? Well…by straying quite a bit from the game’s story, by the sound of it.
The L.A. Times interviewed Russell for his new movie, The Fighter (which also stars Wahlberg), and got him to reveal a little bit more of what to expect for his Uncharted adaptation as well — which apparently will focus on Drake and his “extended family” as they’re put in “fraught, globetrotting situations with some of the world’s most influential people.”
“This idea really turns me on that there’s a family that’s a force to be reckoned with in the world of international art and antiquities … [a family] that deals with heads of state and heads of museums and metes out justice,” Russell explained. “We’ll have the family dynamic, which we’ve done in a couple of movies now,” he continued. “And then you take that and put it on the bigger, more muscular stage of an international action picture, but also put all the character stuff in it. That’s a really cool idea to me.”
