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Neil Burger over Uncharted: The Movie

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Na het vertrek van David O. Russel gaat Neil Burger verder met Uncharted: The Movie. Uit een interview is ontzettend veel informatie te vinden over hoe dit project eruit gaat zien.

Uit het interview is te halen dat Neil Burger begint zonder de screenplay van David O. Russel te gebruiken. Of zoals hij het zelf zegt:

No, I haven't seen his screenplay on it. Mainly we're beginning from scratch and going back to the videogame. Because there's a lot of cool stuff, actually, from the videogame.

Volgens Burger heeft de game zelf al genoeg interessante gebeurtenissen om een film mee te vullen:

It's really one of the most cinematic videogames, and one that has really developed characters. So, you know, there's a lot of cool, really intense things that, if they work for the film's story, I want to use them.

Ook werd Neil Burger gevraagd wat zijn film uniek maakt, aangezien we al soortgelijke films als Indiana Jones in het genre kennen. Hierop antwoordde hij met volgende:

Well, I think Indiana Jones is, you know, fantastic. The grandfather of all those movies. But I think Indiana Jones is nostalgic. It takes place in the 1930s, and the later ones are a little bit later, and it kind of plays on that nostalgia. Whereas Uncharted is very much up to the minute, of the moment. It's very now and contemporary and it has this sort of rough and very intense feel that a movie like The Bourne Identity has. It's really up to date in its own way. The Bourne Identity isn't your father's Cold War movie and this is a very different kind of treasure hunt movie. It's very real and it has kind of an insane, wild feeling that comes out of the character; Nate being this con man and a bit of a hustler, living by his wits,ballsy and capable of anything.

Om het even samen te vatten: Uncharted is meer 'up-to-date', terwijl Indiana Jones zich nog in het nostalgische 1930 afspeelt.

Op het internet is er een campagne bezig om Nathan Fillion als Nathan Drake. Hierop antwoordde Neil Burger dit:

I've seen a little bit of that, yes. That was brought to my attention. So, you know, I think he's a good actor. I think there's a lot of really good actors who don't even look like [Nathan Drake] who could play it! Where we are right now is that we're literally starting from scratch on the screenplay, and I think that once we finish it, then we'll go to actors and see who's available and who's right for the parts. Whenever that happens.

Is er dan eindelijk een rooskleurige toekomst voor gamefilms? Na Prince of Persia zou dit best wel eens kunnen gebeuren, zeker als je het met gamefilms van vroeger vergelijkt. Voor voorbeelden van dit soort slechte game verfilmingen stuur ik je door naar de heer Uwe Bol.