Cinematic a💎daptations of video games are not always received well by fans of the original source material - to put it mildly. With the Uncharted movie, though, director Dan Trachtenberg is attempting to avoid the pitfalls of the often fateful genre.
Rather than do a straight adaptation of the Uncharted series, the filmmaker has decided to focus on protagonist Nathan Drake’s life before the events of the first game. Why? Because he feels a straight adaptation woul🌼d not stack up well to the source material.
Speaking to GamesRadar’s own Connor Sheridan, Trachtenberg maps out what he does and does not want from the Uncharted movie’s story. “[I] have been approached with different vers🅺ions of this tale,” he says, “and have always been not that interested in it because I didn't really want to trace the game.”
For Trachtenberg, imitation sounds less like the sincerest form of flattery and more like a quick-fire way to disappoint long-term fans of the action-adventure series. He continues: “I didn't really feel like it was at all worthy of making a video game adaptation, [if[ we're just gonna copy what the game is and just serve people a lesser experience than what they've experienced in such an incredible way.&rdqu♎o;
In fact, Trachtenberg believes “if 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog so chose to make another Uncharted game featuring Nate and Sully&hellip𒁃; this movie's story is probably the story that theyᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ would want to tell.”
If you weren’t already confident in the Uncharted movie director’s masterful handling of video game adaptation – he can already count 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:10 Cloverfield Lane and the Portal: No Escape fan-made movie among his burgeoning resume – his current mission statement should ease your 🎐fears.
This isn’t going to be a case of re-🌱treading old ground (though, could we keep the dangling train set-piece in, please?) but rather using the games as a launching pad for something exciting and utterly unique from the Uncharted universe.
The Uncharted movie is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:out on December 18, 2020. Tom Holland will star as Nathan Drake alongside an as-yꦕet-unannounced cast.
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