It may have taken a number of years, but Sony is finally pushing forward with their Uncharted movie and Spider-Man: Homecoming star Tom Holland will be taking center stage as a young Nathan Drake. Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, Night at the Museum) is taking over director duties, and he thinks this Uncharted movie will stand is as the Indiana Jones of this generation.
Talking to Nerdist, Levy explains:
"I met with Tom Holland and he put it really succinctly… If we do the origin of Drake, that hasn't been done before. It's a Drake chapter that hasn't been told … an Indiana Jones story for a generation that didn't grow up on Indiana Jones."
Though Holland is currently a rising star in Hollywood, some Uncharted fans aren't sure about introducing Nathan Drake in his younger years. Though Drake has been a full-grown wisecracking adventurer for the entire game series, it looks like Sony wants to bank in on their success with casting Holland as their new Peter Parker for now.
Speaking of video game adaptations, the Tomb Raider reboot is also getting one with Alicia Vikander taking over the role of Lara Croft. Seeing as video game movies are notorious for being bad (see Warcraft, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, Street Fighter, and more), fans are still holding out that Hollywood will eventually find the winning formula that translates good games into great movies.
No official release date has been announced for Uncharted.
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