Best-selling video game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune may be, but it's had a journey to the big screen as troubled as one of Nathan Drake's epic adventures. Once a project that saw David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg attached, way back when they were still homies, both left and Neil Burger got in the director's chair. But he would eventually skip out to direct Divergent, and the project has sat in limbo ever since. Until now, that is.
Seth Gordon, who directed video game flick The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, is in talks to direct Uncharted based on a script by Safe House writer, David Guggenheim. The game follows treasure hunter Nathan Drake, a descendant of explorer Sir Francis Drake, as he attempts to find the lost treasure of El Dorado. Think Indiana Jones meets Nathan Fillion and you have a pretty good idea of Drake as a character, and might explain why so many fans want Fillion to play him in the movie.
We'll see what happens and if Gordon, who also helmed Identity Thief and Horrible Bosses, can finally get Uncharted off the ground. [Deadline]
