With an Uncharted movie having been spinning its wheels for several years now, the movie has finally found a new director.
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures has brought in Dan Trachtenberg to direct the big-screen video game adaptation. Trachtenberg is likely best known to genre fans for helming 10 Cloverfield Lane, an episode of Black Mirror, and the upcoming pilot for Amazon’s take on The Boys.
Now that they’ve signed up a director, Sony is planning to start shooting Uncharted later this year. That said, similar plans have been in place previously, only for various directors to drop out of the project. Seth Gordon was the first director on board back in 2015, with David O. Russell, Neil Burger, and then Shawn Levy all previously in the director’s chair.
Despite all of these changes, it’s believed that Tom Holland is still set to play the young Nathan Drake in the picture. Drake, of course, is the hero at the centre of the Uncharted game series.
At this stage, it’s believed that the movie will be a prequel to the video game series, pulling inspiration from the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception sequence in which young Drake first meets his treasure-hunting partner-in-crime Victor Sullivan.
As ever, expect more on this as Uncharted continues to develop.