The Uncharted movie's production has been an emotional rollercoaster for the most part. Things seemed bleak after Sony had removed the Uncharted movie from their release schedule, but recent news suggests the movie is finally getting back on track with the Stranger Things director attached to the movie.
The man behind the Uncharted movie's script, Joe Carnahan, hasn't been shy when it comes to talking about the script. Last month, he even gave us a look at the first page. Now, Carnahan is back to hyping up the script.
During an interview with ComingSoon, Carnahan shared some new details on the Uncharted movie. According to Carnahan, the Uncharted movie will be rated R, because that's what the game suggested it should be.
"When I wrote “Uncharted,” I didn’t spare the rod. I wrote it the way the video game is. They swear in the game, they’re kinda foul-mouthed and I kept all that stuff intact and I definitely didn’t write it as a “PG-13” movie, I wrote it the way that movie should be written."
As for the argument that an Uncharted movie would be a straight copy of Indiana Jones, Carnahan says that's not the case at all.
"Listen, I’m a huge Indiana Jones fan, which was one of my interests in it and you have to remember you’ve got Sully as well, so it’s more of a buddy situation than just Drake solo. You have this kind of Hope & Crosby, “Road to Morocco” kind of thing, so it’s not a straight Indy lift. Drake is not a guy who likes museums. He thinks they’re all crooked. Curators are “thieves,” the guys in the Louvre and The Met are thieves and despicable. He’s a treasure hunter, not an archaeologist. He doesn’t have Indiana Jones’ idea of pure faith in archaeology. That’s not the way he thinks. It differentiates, and in the script there are deliberate differentiations. He has a line where he says, “They’re gonna be looking at real booby traps, not rolling boulder bullsh*t.” (laughs) [“Raiders of the Lost Ark”] is still arguably my favorite movie of all-time, but it was necessary to create those distinctions. I think Amy Hennig did it when she wrote the game. She made Drake very much an anti-Indiana Jones, you know? Don’t forget, for that first game after that pirate attack, Drake and Sully leave Elena behind, they dump her. Indiana Jones would never do something like that. That’s a rogue act, so she was declaring very early on who that guy was. He was not Jones, he was not to be confused with that guy."
There you have it. It won't be rated PG-13 and it won't be a copy of Indiana Jones! Now we just need a cast to get the movie going.
