Uncharted Director Changing Drake's Back Story
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So it sounds to me like they wanted to make a generic National Treasure/Indiana Jones movie at heart, but knew that alone would not sell so they had to strap on something for name recognition like "Uncharted!" But in all seriousness, I can't see this as much of an Uncharted movie with the poor character selection and now deviation in plot. At least in the Prince of Persia film, he was a prince with a time-altering dagger... and that movie was downright horrible.
You just described why I hate the Resident Evil movies.NeedAUserName said:
Fool me once, shame on you... and you know the rest. After seeing the fuck-ups made when a director wanted to 'improve' the Resident Evil story arc for their movies (or, more accurately, create a playground so that he could play a game of 'look at how hot my wife is, y'all!'), I'm done with the Uncharted movie. It's a shame, really; my son and I were really looking forward to this, and even my wife's watched us play it enough to know that there's a deeper story in both games. But if you're going to just slap a popular name on your own brain farts so that Hollywood will buy what you're shoveling, well, screw that.
Game companies really need to wise up and start putting riders on their contracts allowing them creative oversight. Is it any wonder Valve has been refusing to sell the movie rights to Halflife for so long at this point?
Oh, and side note... those who think Drake's just a greedy, murderous bastard? Have you played the games at all, or are you jumping on the popular meme of bashing the games that began when the XBox fanboys learned it was a PlayStation exclusive? Having run through the game several times, if you're paying attention the story makes it very clear that Drake's quest begins as an archaeological hunt for proof of his family legacy and when that begins to look like it's just going to get a lot of people killed he tries to give up and leave the treasure hunting to the pirates. If you want someone to blame for his kill count, blame the reporter who tries to shame him into continuing on or the old friend whose ass he has to save after said friend betrays him. Personally, I think it speaks more to his character as a white hat that he didn't leave anyway and let Sully rot.
Hmm. OK. After quite a bit of thought, I can accept these changes. Sure, Drake is actually something of an anti-hero with his goals generally being selfish (find gold and sell to highest bidder), even if both games do eventually turn this around in the later halves. But it'll be interesting to see how the film-makers decide to interpret the family who raised such an interesting character.
And as for turning it into a family movie, well, the bad guy will have to get off on evil one liners rather than mercilessly shooting a wounded friendly in the head, but hey, National Treasure got away with it... sort of.
What I expect from an Uncharted Movie, is a wise cracking, smarmy-but-savy, capable Drake who somehow manages to survive the most ridiculous situation and over the top set pieces in the hunt to find a mythological item and reap the benefits... sorry... protect it from the evil bad guy.
As long as the next announcement isn't that Elena is being rewritten as his 12 yr old sister.
And as for turning it into a family movie, well, the bad guy will have to get off on evil one liners rather than mercilessly shooting a wounded friendly in the head, but hey, National Treasure got away with it... sort of.
What I expect from an Uncharted Movie, is a wise cracking, smarmy-but-savy, capable Drake who somehow manages to survive the most ridiculous situation and over the top set pieces in the hunt to find a mythological item and reap the benefits... sorry... protect it from the evil bad guy.
As long as the next announcement isn't that Elena is being rewritten as his 12 yr old sister.
Oh for Fuck sake why do all videogame-movie adaptions do this why don't you just stick to the original story it's not that fucking hard