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Uncharted movie finds a new director

ByRuaraidh Dempster 26 October 201613 May 2018

Video game movies rarely have much luck – the supposed adaption of the Uncharted series being the most prolific. The film has been “in development” since late 2007 and once, long ago, had been set for a 2016 release – seems everything gets delayed.

So will 2016 be the year that the movie actually starts moving along? Sony Pictures is hoping so as Shawn Levy has just been picked up as the movie’s director. Levy has previously directed films such as the Night at the Museum franchise, Real Steel and Date Night. It’s not the most stirring of resume’s but he did also work and direct two episodes of the recent Stranger Things on Netflix – and is set to direct some of season 2.

Whatever the case it looks like Uncharted may be officially on the way. After suffering through five screenwriters – including American Hustle’s David O. Russell – it was announced back in July that Joe Carnahan had penned the movies first script. Carnahan has previously wrote films such as The Grey and The A-Team.

Ruaraidh Dempster

Ruaraidh - pronounced Roo-Ree - is a Scottish gamer with the name and games to prove it. He enjoys mostly everything, unless it involves exercise, and much prefers to run around inside a good, open-world RPG, being chased across the lands by a horde of monsters after his sweet loot. When he has made his escape, he will often return to the real world to continue playing anything with a good story - indie or otherwise.