Uncharted trailer brings the video game series to life — but who asked for this?

Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in the Uncharted movie

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The first preview for the Uncharted picture has landed. Based on the beloved PlayStation series developed by Naughty Hotdog, the film stars Tom Holland as a young Nathan Sir Francis Drake happening a quest to find a mythical McGuffin and terminate IT from falling into the wrong hands.

The film is the first bouncy-action feature effort from the newly rebranded PlayStation Productions, which is a Sony subsidiary created to help turn PlayStation games into movies and television shows. While technically existent since 2013, the Uncharted movie is the studio's first flagship production.

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The trailer showcases several sequences that will be at once recognizable to fans of the Uncharted video games. For starters, the shipment plane setpiece from Unmapped 3: Drake's Deception and the sunken plagiarizer ship from Unmapped 4: A Thief's End are both replicated in the dawdler. Not to mention, the wide-cut film will likely have various more familiar scenes.

Perchance the trailer's biggest effect is that IT indicates the motion-picture show won't bring anything riveting, novel or new to the franchise. Information technology looks look-alike it's taking a CGI video game and translating it into a live-action film, rattling literally. Which just begs the question: why wouldn't audiences just play the pre-existing games alternatively? Especially when the video games feature a Sully with a glorious 'stache.

Alongside Holland, the film stars Set Whalberg as mentor-figure and friend Victor "Smear" Sullivan, Sophia Taylor Ali as Chloe Frazer a fellow treasure hunting watch and love interest and Antonio Banderas as the film's currently unnamed baddie. It's a cast with plentifulness of recognizable name calling, but it hasn't been especially well-received by longtime players.

Which brings us to the elephant in the room, WHO really asked for an Chartless flic? The games are noted for being highly medium and possess often been described as interactional summer blockbusters. Therein regard, actually bringing Nathan Drake to the big screen seems like a liquidate of clock and resources. Especially when Sony has sight of properties that would probably be fitter suited for a feature article film adaptation such arsenic War god.

A mentioned, the casting hasn't gone dispirited well with fans either. The decision to select Mark Wahlberg to play Sully in particular left gamers puzzled. This first-year trailer likely won't have convinced anyone familiar with the source material that the decision was a forward one either.

Whether fans want it or not, the Uncharted pic is regular to hit theatres on February 18, 2022. It may not be the only PlayStation Productions product based on a Naughty Dog game to hit screens in 2022 either. HBO is currently filming a television adaption of The Last of United States, with a premier next year looking fairly probably.

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