The Hollywood Reporter is stating that producer Avi Arad has plans to produce a big-screen adaptation of the popular Playstation 3 video game, “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune”. Joining Avi Arad are producers Ari Arad, Charles Roven, and Alex Gartner. Here’s the summary from THR:
The story follows a descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures — actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis — begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.
Are we looking at another National Treasure/Indiana Jones-type adventure here? Screenwriter Kyle Ward has been hired to write the screenplay. Ward’s credits include screenplays for other game adaptations in progress including “Hitman 2″ for 20th Century Fox and “Kane & Lynch” for Lionsgate, which Bruce Willis is attached to star in. Umm…didn’t “Hitman” already suck terribly? Seriously, sometimes 20th Century Fox reminds me of a deranged patient who’s run loose from a mental asylum. “Hitman” tanked horribly – therefore, we’ll spend several millions more on a sequel. It doesn’t take an idiot to figure out the lack of logic there. Anyways, Arad had better be taking this “Uncharted” project seriously, otherwise, I have no idea why the man’s still in business. A part of me is saying this is just another one of his profit-driven ventures. Guess we’ll have to wait and see as this project develops.
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