“Uncharted” is scheduled to open theatrically on Feb. From the groundbreaking storytellers at Naughty Dog, comes the genre-defining epic that revolutionized adventure storytelling, rebuilt by Bluepoint Games. “Nathan Fillion’s name doesn't put butts in theater seats,” Shifu tweeted.įillion, who is active on Twitter, stayed out of the discussion.
However, the user Shifu pointed out that Fillion’s fame is mostly based on television series including “Firefly,” “Castle” and “The Rookie” whereas Holland is a bonafide movie star. Hopefully Sony plans to have them in the future.” Nathan Fillion is a national treasure.”Īnother account going by the handle Planetary Federation of Unions also complained about Wahlberg’s casting, tweeting, “Nathan Fillion & Bruce Campbell should have been Drake & Sully. Twitter user FPSCarol complained, “Not casting Nathan Fillion to be Nathan Drake is like living in a universe where both the Shrek video games and Shrek himself exist and a movie studio decides to not cast Shrek as Shrek."Īnother user, Fresh Pressed Film, tweeted, “It’s seriously incredible how the fan film NAILED the Uncharted tone and the new movie trailer is just…its own thing entirely. Nonetheless, the sight of Holland in the role that many “Uncharted” fans envisioned as being Fillion’s exclusive domain set off a series of angry tweets.
Holland was cast in May 2017 and principal cinematography began in June 2020. But the project was repeatedly delayed over the years and the actors became too old to play the youthful version of Drake. … It was a mistake and is something that I will probably never do again.What Happened Next: The film version of “Uncharted” had been in development since 2008, with both Fillion and Wahlberg among the actors who were considered for the Drake role. But it was an important lesson learned, because, at times, it was less about land a mark and go through this scene and more about land a mark, stand like this and see my bulging biceps. My character is supposed to be a fucking action hero in this moment! Look, I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know if I succeeded in that. I want this to be my cool moment.’ I had to play this very tough, very stoic guy - basically be Mark Wahlberg. “I think there are elements of my performance in ‘Uncharted’ where I kind of fell under that spell of being ‘I want to look good now. “As soon as you start worrying about ‘Do I look good in this shot?’ acting becomes something other than playing a character,” he said. Holland recently spoke with British GQ about the challenges of playing the iconic video game protagonist. Holland plays Nathan Drake, a treasure hunter who is accompanied by Wahlberg’s Sully and Sophia Ali as Chloe Frazer, who may have a spark with Drake. “Uncharted” is directed by Ruben Fleischer, with a script penned by “Iron Man” duo Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and Rafe Judkins, based off of a screen story by Judkins. The first trailer for “ Uncharted,” a film adaptation of the hit Playstation video game franchise from Naughty Dog, starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, has arrived, with the duo globetrotting and searching for treasure.