The ‘Uncharted’ Film Has Started Production
By George Robbins
Film productions are having all kinds of fun trying to figure out how they are going to be moving forward because of what is going on with the pandemic. Much of the world is shut down still to some degree and it is taking its toll on the movie industry which is trying its best to stay on its feet throughout this whole thing. Big studios aren’t necessarily strapped for cash and it isn’t like there are any guaranteed deadlines, but people still want to get back to work as soon as they can. This has resulted in many productions such as ‘Avatar 2‘ being worked on almost as soon as they were able to and directors are pushing to get back to work. Among the projects that are even trying to use loopholes to get back to work quicker is the ‘Mission: Impossible 7‘ production.
This just goes to show that many projects just want to get back to work while some were fortunate enough to be able to continue working even with the pandemic. Other productions are also having to change the way they film moving forward to be more in-line with the restrictions that are now in place. This has been shown recently with the filming of ‘The Batman‘ no longer being done on location and it will now be done on new sets made in the studio. This has now shed a bit of light on how difficult it will be for some productions moving forward and it also shows how determined some film crews are to get back to work. So it should be no surprise that films that hadn’t started production yet will now be starting up.
Among those new productions just so happens to be the Tom Holland led adaptation of ‘Uncharted.’ The movie is somewhat based on the video game series and instead of ripping from the games, it will apparently be a prequel story of a time before the video games’ stories. Holland will be playing the protagonist of the games, Nathan Drake, and it is hoped by Nolan North, the voice actor for the character, that the story will stay original. In the games, the player controls Drake as they uncover hidden, often mystical treasures that have been lost to time and he is often aided by his mentor, a man named Sully. From what we know about the upcoming film, it will apparently be the story of how Drake even met Sully and why he ended up as Drake’s mentor.
Production for the movie was just about to begin when the coronavirus pandemic hit and they had no choice but to shut down indefinitely. No one was quite sure what the “indefinitely” part of that statement really meant, but neither did the actual production crew. As soon as productions were allowed to start up again and the equipment, cast, and crew were squared away then they would be ready to start. It would seem that it is around now that they have officially started production for the film. Following the long shut down and delay for the film’s production, Tom Holland recently posted a set photo for the film, essentially confirming that they have started the production process. As of now the release date for the film is set for approximately one year from now and although many films are being delayed, they are trying to make that date. We will have to wait and see now if they can actually pull it off and we can see it by summer of next year.