Sony has announced that its recently set up PlayStation Productions studio is joining the line of producers for the upcoming Uncharted movie as its current director Dan Trachtenberg leaves the movie. Uncharted movie has started to a very troublesome beginning as Dan was the fifth director for the movie and now he has left as well.
As revealed by Deadline, PlayStation Productions is now onboard the movie alongside Chuck Roven, Avi Arad, Alex Gartner, and Ari Arad. The studio is however now working towards finding a replacement for Dan’s position because the movie schedule has already been locked down. The movie production begins in early 2020 while the release is planned for December 2020.
There are chances that the movie might get delayed because of the whole director fiasco however so far the studio is trying to land a director as early as the end of Summer so that everything is set until early 2020 to begin the production of the movie. Marvel’s Spider-Man lead Tom Holland is still part of the movie and will play Nathan Drake as announced earlier.
The Uncharted movie is written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Rafe Judkins and is based on one of the most iconic PlayStation franchise ever made. Uncharted follows the story of Nathan Drake in his early days as he grows up to become the world’s best treasure hunter. The movie has big shoes to fill because Uncharted is one of the best video game franchises on PlayStation.
The first movie in the franchise is also important because it will pave way for possible sequels just like the video game. The first Uncharted game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, was released on PS3 back in 2007 and since then there have been many sequel titles focusing on Nathan and friends with the latest one being ‘Uncharted: The Lost Legacy’ released in 2017.
The movie is scheduled for a December 2020 release and we hope that PlayStation Productions and Sony is able to solve all problems with the movie as soon as possible because this is not the only movie-related bad news Tom Holland received this week.
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