This made me laugh.
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Tom Holland (Spider-Man) To Play Young Nathan Drake in Uncharted Movie
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This made me laugh.
mrmickfran
Member
Dude is getting some work.
As if video game films faithful to their source material are any good regardless?
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
From spider man to wall climbing man
I am calling it, the sequel will be a Ghostbusters cinematic universe crossover.
Oh yeah, you can definitely trust Sony's movie production division to not fuck this up.
Oh yeah, you can definitely trust Sony's movie production division to not fuck this up.
Lol so what. Drake being 6ft 1 isn't like an integral part of his character. I didn't even know his height before you mentioned it.
Anyway just looked at Shawn Levy's past filmography and yeah, not getting too excited for this one.
haha pretty much
GinoFelino
Member
To be fair, everyone thinks Young Indiana Jones is the best part of that franchise
And everyone loved Mutt
And everyone loved Mutt
GavinUK86
Member
Mushroomer25
Member
While those complaints hold true, the plot isn't great either.
But honestly, I'm not a fan of 'Young Drake' in Uncharted 4 either. Uncharted is best when it gets massively bombastic, and dealing with kids prevented them from dealing with any real danger. The results are sequences of very slow chapters in otherwise fast-paced action narratives.
Acquiescence
Member
At least let Drake graduate from high school before you thrust him into a globe-trotting adventure.
Movie audiences at large don't know anything about Uncharted. Holland will be more visible after his role in Spiderman and dude can act, be funny etc. The big thing about this is you have to get the chemistry and character interactions right.
I don't see why this wouldn't work instead of having and older Drake already doing his thing.
Also people gotta remember. They aren't going to adapt the games 1:1. They'll take the characters and probably some inspiration, but the back drop of the games is going on crazy adventures and finding/stealing treasure.
All you gotta really do is make sure the characters, their interactions and the chemistry is on point.
Booker Dewitt
Member
I mean, sure. Okay, separating it from the games is not a terrible idea and the Sully/Drake dynamic is one of the better things in the franchise.
WordAssassin
Member
Drake in the games is also a full grown adult, and this movie will be a prequel, when he is younger.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Is that the barometer now? Movies can suck (the Star Wars prequels mostly sucked, with Episode III being the only decent one, and it still had issues), they just need to make a lot of money? Is that what we, the audience, want from an Uncharted movie? A piece of crap that does $1 billion worldwide?
That really doesn't matter. What matters is if you can get enough people to buy into this and have it make money.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Says it right in the Op like...
VibratingDonkey
Member
If Tom Holland is Spider-Man and Drake, J.K Simmons should be Jameson and Sully.
It's only fair.
It's only fair.
It's for the best really, no one is going to be able to top Nolans performance as Drake.
Nathan Drake is Nolan North.
The Prequels aren't terrible. They didn't tank the Star Wars brand. People are still alive. The movies made money and there are a lot of people that grew up with them and loved them despite what an increasingly dwindling minority would say.
Also I don't how this movie being a "prequel" entry makes it instantly comparable to Star Wars.
Yes the general audience doesn't know about Uncharted and that's where I think the problem comes in if you start with young Drake. The adult quippy swashbuckling murdering Drake is who gamers love and is what Uncharted is. The young Drake stuff was great too in 3 and 4 but that was only because it added more depth and backstory to the adult Drake that we already loved. Starting off with a kid might not be the best idea because if it doesn't click with audiences, they won't get a chance to get to another movie or two with adult Drake.
Edit:
As a weird example, we all know how cool John Wick is but if the creative team decided to start off John Wick's movie series with him as a younger, inexperienced assassin in training, and then worked up to him as the Boogeyman in subsequent films, that wouldn't have worked too well. Of course it didn't happen that way so who can say but if that first young John Wick movie bombed, we wouldn't have gotten to adult badass John Wick which is what the franchise is ultimately about.
I'm not looking for a 1:1 adaptation of one of the games or an amalgam of all 5 either because I already played them. I was hoping for an all new adventure with Drake, Sully, and Elena.
This is the movie universe though. You can start anywhere you like. It would be the same issue if he was already an adult. Nobody would know him either.
I think for a movie. Setting this up as the first time Drake and Sully met works. They still have their quips. Holland can clearly act. Now you just have to cast a good Sully. The games imo don't matter much in this respect as far as where they should start.
I think this is a great starting point.
WaterAstro
Member
Unless they're doing some younger Drake deal, I don't see how this fits. Isn't Drake pretty old?
VeryGooster
Banned
I immediately thought of the flashback sequence in Uncharted 3 and totally forgot there was one in Uncharted 4.
DeviantBoi
Member
Well, I'm actually on board this idea.
My favorite parts of U3 and U4 were the young Nathan chapters.
My favorite parts of U3 and U4 were the young Nathan chapters.
WraithWalker1893
Banned
Wait so it's a prequel? A freakin' prequel? So no adult Nathan Drake then? Well that's some BS right there.
Idris Elba
PhantomKnight
Member
I think going for young drake is a good idea, and Tom Holland isn't a bad choice. The concept doesn't look bad but am worried with the execution.
the bottom left kinda looks like ryan gosling?
TheAggroCraig
Member
I don't think this is a bad thing, but the script is definitely going to need to be solid... and I'm skeptical about that.
dragonyeuw
Member
I doubt they're going to be that precise with the casting that the chosen actor actually has to be the same height as whatever he's supposed to be on wiki or whatever. More importantly, if he's playing 'young' Drake, then he doesn't need to be his adult height. He's playing him at the age he was in Uncharted 3 which was,what, 13-15 years old?
The Artisan
Member
i thought the uncharted movie was gonna be based on uncharted 4. that let the door open for that nathan fillion guy to take the who apparently every fuckin body wanted
From the news and tidbits around this, it seems that they're reworking the entire movie to be a Young Drake movie rather than just having flashback sequences like in 3 and 4... I don't like this move at all. I loved the flashbacks mechanic and the grown up Drake is the real star but then finding out what he got up to earlier in his life via playable flashbacks was always super interesting. The movies should start in the past and word forward, they should be about Drake as an adult.