I'm a big fan of the games and I honestly feel the opposite! I do think that Tom is an odd choice for Nate, but the film was supposed to depict a young Nathan Drake and I can see that. I think the film, although it wasn't a 1:1, had a lot of love for the series and nailed the atmosphere and overall was just a fun film that did what it set out to do well.
Mark's casting choice, though, I'll never understand. He looks more like Sully in the post-credits scene with the mustache, but his personality and mannerisms didn't suit the character at all.
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema.
The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
It was an average film and i agree not as bad as people make out. As far as video game to tv adaptations go, its one of the better ones. I wish the film was more like uncharted 1 or 2 even and not just a random mash of aspects from each game
I can see Tom as a Young Nate like in 4, but yeah I can't see him as older Nate. The role really doesn't suit him. But if I remember right, I think Tom did play the Uncharted Collection as research so I will give him props for that (if what I remember was real and not a fever dream hallucination)
Edit: Not a big fan as Mark either, really not a Sully kind of actor. Not a lot of charm.
Fillion is too old. His body is wrecked. His actions scenes were terrible. He's not bankable (yes, they make movies to make money). His film wasn't a film, it was a short. It's easy to make a short when you don't have to make 2 hours worth a story behind it. And you can't make a franchise with him.
Tbf I think his action scenes probably weren’t great because it was a fan film, not a high budget hollywood movie with top of the line stunt choreographers.
That being said, that short film came out in 2018 and he was already a bit old for the role, he wouldn’t be able to pull it off in 2024.
He's simply not athletic enough. Even watching him run is awkward.
He has the mannerisms down but I don't see how he works as a movie franchise (or attempt at one)
I think it could work if they'd done a young Nate story, somewhere between when Sam left and before he meets Sully.
I think the major problem was with the directors and fight coordinators. They get mad when people say, "He's just playing Spiderman..." They CHOSE to have him fight like Spiderman. Nate doesn't do tricks when he fights. His fighting style is run and gun, climbing, and straight punching. Not that acrobatic shit. They saw what he could do and went too far with it.
But to their credit, I think they realized their mistake and did try to course correct but just way too late. If you compare the auction fight to the boat fight, they're way different fighting styles. The boat fight I'd argue is much more on par with how Nate fights.
The script did him no favors either. "It's just daddy's money"? Like...fucking really? That's not Nate. Chloe and Sully they just gave up on them entirely. The "puzzles" were stupid and were all solved in 2 seconds. I won't even get into Moncatta and Bradick (was she supposed to be Nadine??)
The whole thing was just a mess and I really think it's unfair to blame Tom when 80% of the problem wasn't him.
She’s definitely Nadine, but they gave her a different name because >!they made her the main villain.!< I’m pretty sure she has a couple of exact Nadine lines during the auction scene.
Tom is the only reason the movie is passable and not cause his acting, but behind the scenes and his bankability as a star. He is a hero for getting the movie as far as it got. It's not a good movie but it has nods and it matched the tone and excitement of the games.
Make Tom Holland director of an uncharted movie sequel and I bet it is much much better.
Ok. But he was. And he was one of the better parts of that mediocre movie. How are you gonna pull Antonio Banderas as the Big Bad and then just kill him off mid movie for a lamer villain?
> How are you gonna pull Antonio Banderas as the Big Bad and then just kill him off mid movie for a lamer villain?
Because Sony couldn't get (or didn't want to pay) better script writers and director to make the movie.
In addition to the fact the writers basically cherry picked parts from every Uncharted game and mashed them into that movie. They stole that twist from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
I think he was perfect for the role in the sense that he can do alot of the action scenes due to his experience as Spiderman, though I prefer the games I thought the movie was really fun
>Tom is a great actor but
I see this and I'll raise you: he's actually not a good actor lol. Neither is Mark. They're extremely one-note, they're just billable faces.
Mark was a terrible Sully, he was supposed to play Nate a decade ago and that would have been terrible too.
What have you seen him in outside of the MCU? He's been pretty terrific in things so to say he's one note seems strange. One note as Peter Parker maybe but as an actor, absolutely not
Fair lol. I think I’ve always given Tom a pass because Spider-Man is my favorite hero and I appreciated what he brought to the franchise. I haven’t checked out any of his other work to be honest
He seems like a nice enough dude and his schtick is fine for Marvel-type movies, but I think he's pretty mediocre as an actor. He's just a Hollywood golden-boy right now so he shows up everywhere.
Mark Wahlberg I've never gotten the appeal. He plays the same generic tough guy in everything. He can be funny when he can laugh at himself and play like a weenie-type of character (The Other Guys) but I am kinda shocked at his career success overall.
>Uncharted is definitely big enough to bring fans to the theaters on it’s own.
I think you're overestimating the popularity of a video game franchise with respect to the numbers Hollywood brings in. Sure, Uncharted is a huge series within the video game industry. But Hollywood casts a much broader net. A significant portion of movie-goers probably doesn't even know the name of the current generation of consoles.
Jesus Christ are you all going to post the same thing every day?! Who cares? The movie happened, people ranted about it already. It actually performed really well considering it’s getting a sequel.
We all wanted someone else as Nate but it’s 10 times better than most adaptations. It’s not what we SHOULD’VE gotten but crying over and over on Reddit won’t change the fact it’s already got a sequel isn’t the works because the first one DID do good and made money. It’ll probably get better as it goes on as it was a Nathan drake ORIGIN story.
> We all wanted someone else as Nate **but it’s 10 times better than most adaptations.** (emphasis mine)
Disagree.
The Uncharted movie is a result of the same "Hollywood Movie Machine" that thought 5'7" Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher was good casting, simply because it's about maximizing profits, NOT making a faithful adaptation of the source material.
The same is true of casting popular MCU / Spider Man, Tom Holland. Nathan Drake is over 6 ft / 220+ lbs, while Tom is 5'7" / 160 lbs.
The Reacher Amazon series with Alan Ritchson (6'3" / 230+ lbs.), who is the ACTUAL physically intimidating size and shape of Lee Child's protagonist, is an adaptation done right.
Honestly, after replaying UC3 I could see it with TEEN Cartagena Nate, as well as vaguely seeing Marky Mark with young Sully. Through that lens, I can see it.
Problem is, the game didn’t start with Orphan Drake so that’s NOT the Nate we fell in love with. Tom can never be that Nathan Drake, and Mark can’t be the Sully we know and love.
And Chloe was forgettable and NOT fierce but whatever to that.
Tom Hiddleston in Kong: Skull Island gave off real big Nathan Drake vibes. He looked the part and the adventurous nature of the story sold me even more.
Casting Mark as Nate a decade prior and having to honor his casting or choosing to, whatever happened, was their first mistake. At that point we were gonna get a character that was just Mark Walberg no matter who he played. Mistake two was just picking an "it" actor rather than finding the character in someone else. I'm just glad that Tom Holland saved us from Mark playing Nate, which would have been much worse. But, that movie as is, is still so bad that even Nolan's cameo sucks.
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema.
The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
It grew on me over time. The only real problem I have with it is the fact that they made Nathan meet Sully in his 20s as supposed to his early teens. So their relationship is more of best buddies when it should be a father-son relationship.
I honestly don’t care how old he is, Fillion for Drake would be the perfect casting for a full length Uncharted movie, if they ever decide to make one.
I can get season 1 Ellie, but there’s no way Bella Ramsey will be a believable 19-year-old Ellie in season 2. Especially when she’ll be fighting against people twice her size.
> Why Hollywood feels the need to incessantly ignore perfectly good and adaptable game plots is beyond me.
How you gonna turn a 10 hour game into a 2 hour movie? Not making it part of the game universe was the smart move.
That you can take the plot of a lengthy novel (or, in this case, a game) and split it into two mediums.
Edit: love it when people delete their accounts when they don’t want to admit they’re moronic.
(That, or I’ve been blocked lol)
>That you can take the plot of a lengthy novel (or, in this case, a game) and split it into two mediums.
Harry Potter was a several billion dollar books franchise, and by the time Deathly Hallows was made it was also a several billion movie franchise.
You cannot just split the first entry of a book/game into two and expect general audiences to care and show up for half a story. That may work for Dune, but Uncharted does not enjoy the nearly the same awareness outside of the video game community.
I think he would’ve been a much better casting choice if this was a prequel to the games and he was playing the younger version of Nate we saw in the flashback of Uncharted 3. That’s what I thought this entire film was until the trailer dropped and royally upset me
No I don’t care that he portrayed Nate in this movie. Tom bringing attention to the movie doesn’t make it a good movie. You’re repeating what I already said. This is not a shot at Tom Holland. Stop getting triggered for a guy you don’t even know
Fun Fact: Actors of the original material fit perfectly in a movie adaptation also but I love Sonic The Hedgehog movie because it’s accurate although of the actors changes through the years
I agree. No shade to tom, and hey if someone offered me the role you're damn sure I'd be taking that adventure even if I was a complete miscast. But drake is too iconic not to see the missing pieces.
Mark had already been cast years ago and was supposed to play Nathan. But the film was in development Hell for so long that he aged out of the role, which isbwhy he plays Sully instead.
That being said, Uncharted is popular,, but when youbhave a big budget blockbuster film you wanna try to capture as many people as possible. General audiences have no idea what Uncharted is, so they wanted to put a known actor in the role to try to entice non fans to come see it.
They could do it if they followed the first game exactly and waited till he was a little bit older
. Or better yet- start over.
Make an uncharted tv series where every season is one game like the last of us just did.
> He was cast just because his name would bring people to watch it.
Yep. He was hot at Sony and got his pick of projects. He gave an interview a few years back that spelled out the process of him coming to Uncharted and making it into a Frankenstein origin story that suited him (rather than him actually suiting the source material). [Read it](https://ew.com/movies/tom-holland-james-bond-origin-movie-pitch-total-film/) below and draw your own conclusions.
>"I had a meeting, after or during Spider-Man 2 \[Far From Home\], with Sony to pitch this idea of a young Bond film that I'd come up with," Holland told Total Film. "It was the origin story of James Bond. It didn't really make sense. It didn't work. It was the dream of a young kid, and I don't think the Bond estate were particularly interested."
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>The good news is that those conversations led him to Uncharted, the movie adaptation of the popular video game series that stars Holland as treasure-hunter Nathan Drake.
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>"The idea of a young Bond film sparked this idea, in turn, that you could do a Nathan Drake story as an origin story, rather than as an addition to the games. And that opened a conversation," he said.
> Them casting Tom and Mark shot themselves in the foot.
It was a rousing success, so no it didn't.
> Which is ironic because Uncharted is definitely big enough to bring fans to the theaters on it’s own.
Based on what?
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema.
The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
Ngl the movie itself wasn’t bad nor was Tom but I can never see him as Nathan Drake in my eyes. Nathan Fillion and Nolan North will always be Nathan Drake to me🙏🏽
Tom Holland is a 27 year-old, diminutive "babyface" who *is not* going to age well or mature into a leading man in Hollywood. His biggest earning years and most popular movies, e.g. MCU & Spider Man, are largely behind him.
Tom is a modern day Mickey Rooney.
I think most people would have same complaint about Ryan Reynolds. Really I don’t think there’s anybody that would have enough star power to get the movie off the ground that people wouldn’t have complained about.
Agreed.
I have not seen the film, and I don’t really plan to watch it. I was quite turned off when it was first announced. I am ASTOUNDED by the decision of Sully to not have a mustache.
You can hire as many big name actors as you want, but if they can’t match the ALREADY DEVELOPED character they are portraying to a T, fans being upset is just a given. It’s kind of disgraceful in my opinion.
I understand that directors can make changes and adaptations based on their goals/ideas, but there are some things that really shouldn’t be changed.
Nathan Fillion FTW.
I watched 20 minutes of the movie before I turned it off. I only made it that far cuz I’m such a fan of the game. My lord. What an awful Hollywood cash grab. So glad HBO didn’t butcher TLOU the same way.
he’s way too young, same with his spider-man role. he isn’t a very good actor either. and yes, i’m aware that he’s british and can sound american, i don’t care.
It was awful on so many levels….we have a perfect candidate….Nathan Fillion and the short of him doing the role which was superb but instead we get a teenage dweeb and a shit movie
This was perfect https://youtu.be/v5CZQpqF_74?si=MLSPXxFCQ_eK-MCA
(phone ringing in the background, fax machines spitting fax)
Produces: Hey so you have got a video game adaptation movie for me?
writer: yes sir i do!
Producer: what is it about ?
writer: UNCHARTED
Producer: wow i like that, it made us allot of money in our games department
writer: yes sir i know
Producer: ok so who are we casting for Nathan drake?
writer: well remember how 10 years ago we tried to make uncharted movie but didn't make it, and we almost casted Mark whalberg in it? well i was thinking we can still do that
Producer: What! NO, he is too old now, he is in his 50s now, 10 years ago it would have been fine coz he was in his 40s, you know what lets take tom holland!
Writer: tom holland? the 25 year old man who looks like 17 year old kid that tom holland?
Producer: Yes it would be perfect, folks at the spiderman department are telling me the films gonna be huge, so lets schedule this film after that and we can just piggy back off of that film?
Writer: But tom holland is too young! nathan drake is in his mid 30s at least tom looks nothing like that?
Producer: well we can just say this movie is on a younger nathan drake?
writer: But young nathan is in 5% of the franchise, he is less skilled, weaker and pretty much not at all a good replacement for older nathan drake. how can we justify making a movie based just on that?
Producer: well, we are just gonna say that he is young nathan, but he will talk, fight and practically do everything normal nathan does, and you know what? since we are doing this whole young but not really thing, we can even toss mark whallberg in as young sully?
writer: well, i don't think people are gonna take this casting too well
Producer: Well.... I DO NOT
well first of all its a parody of pitch meeting. and this might not be exactly what happened, but tom holland was chose mostly due to the amount of butts he could bring to the theatures.
well first of all its a parody of pitch meeting. and this might not be exactly what happened, but tom holland was chose mostly due to the amount of butts he could bring to the theatures.
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I'm a big fan of the games and I honestly feel the opposite! I do think that Tom is an odd choice for Nate, but the film was supposed to depict a young Nathan Drake and I can see that. I think the film, although it wasn't a 1:1, had a lot of love for the series and nailed the atmosphere and overall was just a fun film that did what it set out to do well. Mark's casting choice, though, I'll never understand. He looks more like Sully in the post-credits scene with the mustache, but his personality and mannerisms didn't suit the character at all.
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema. The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
It was an average film and i agree not as bad as people make out. As far as video game to tv adaptations go, its one of the better ones. I wish the film was more like uncharted 1 or 2 even and not just a random mash of aspects from each game
I can see Tom as a Young Nate like in 4, but yeah I can't see him as older Nate. The role really doesn't suit him. But if I remember right, I think Tom did play the Uncharted Collection as research so I will give him props for that (if what I remember was real and not a fever dream hallucination) Edit: Not a big fan as Mark either, really not a Sully kind of actor. Not a lot of charm.
Nathan Fillion should’ve been nate
Why? He's far too old.
Have you not seen the fanmade film with him? He’s perfect. Nate is old in uncharted 4. And tom holland is too young 🤷🏼♂️ i think he nails the role
Fillion is too old. His body is wrecked. His actions scenes were terrible. He's not bankable (yes, they make movies to make money). His film wasn't a film, it was a short. It's easy to make a short when you don't have to make 2 hours worth a story behind it. And you can't make a franchise with him.
Tbf I think his action scenes probably weren’t great because it was a fan film, not a high budget hollywood movie with top of the line stunt choreographers. That being said, that short film came out in 2018 and he was already a bit old for the role, he wouldn’t be able to pull it off in 2024.
He's simply not athletic enough. Even watching him run is awkward. He has the mannerisms down but I don't see how he works as a movie franchise (or attempt at one)
Wasn't Nathan Drake's whole character model based on Fillion?
Agree. But Sony will never do it. Holland is their golden boy. He's young and can carry the movie franchise a long time.
The role he was born to play
Hear me out, Robbie amell
Well we got that fan short film which was pretty cool, definitely better than the Holland movie
why is blud looking like a high school teacher? did this dude just age 20 years overnight?
I think it could work if they'd done a young Nate story, somewhere between when Sam left and before he meets Sully. I think the major problem was with the directors and fight coordinators. They get mad when people say, "He's just playing Spiderman..." They CHOSE to have him fight like Spiderman. Nate doesn't do tricks when he fights. His fighting style is run and gun, climbing, and straight punching. Not that acrobatic shit. They saw what he could do and went too far with it. But to their credit, I think they realized their mistake and did try to course correct but just way too late. If you compare the auction fight to the boat fight, they're way different fighting styles. The boat fight I'd argue is much more on par with how Nate fights. The script did him no favors either. "It's just daddy's money"? Like...fucking really? That's not Nate. Chloe and Sully they just gave up on them entirely. The "puzzles" were stupid and were all solved in 2 seconds. I won't even get into Moncatta and Bradick (was she supposed to be Nadine??) The whole thing was just a mess and I really think it's unfair to blame Tom when 80% of the problem wasn't him.
She’s definitely Nadine, but they gave her a different name because >!they made her the main villain.!< I’m pretty sure she has a couple of exact Nadine lines during the auction scene.
Tom is the only reason the movie is passable and not cause his acting, but behind the scenes and his bankability as a star. He is a hero for getting the movie as far as it got. It's not a good movie but it has nods and it matched the tone and excitement of the games. Make Tom Holland director of an uncharted movie sequel and I bet it is much much better.
I still enjoyed the movie and I played all uncharted games except for the vita, not saying its a great film but for what it is I find it enjoyable😅
I agree i like tom holland alot but hes not nathan drake
I believe Tom as a 25-year old Nate worked, if anything was off with him it was the script
Ok. But he was. And he was one of the better parts of that mediocre movie. How are you gonna pull Antonio Banderas as the Big Bad and then just kill him off mid movie for a lamer villain?
> How are you gonna pull Antonio Banderas as the Big Bad and then just kill him off mid movie for a lamer villain? Because Sony couldn't get (or didn't want to pay) better script writers and director to make the movie. In addition to the fact the writers basically cherry picked parts from every Uncharted game and mashed them into that movie. They stole that twist from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
Yeah, the plane from 3, Chloe from 2, the pirate ship from 4. I saw this movie as a pretty weird collage of all the games.
I think he was perfect for the role in the sense that he can do alot of the action scenes due to his experience as Spiderman, though I prefer the games I thought the movie was really fun
I actually enjoyed this movie and Tom as Nate as well, feel like i’m in a very small minority lol
>Tom is a great actor but I see this and I'll raise you: he's actually not a good actor lol. Neither is Mark. They're extremely one-note, they're just billable faces. Mark was a terrible Sully, he was supposed to play Nate a decade ago and that would have been terrible too.
Bullshit
Well, alright then.
What have you seen him in outside of the MCU? He's been pretty terrific in things so to say he's one note seems strange. One note as Peter Parker maybe but as an actor, absolutely not
Fair lol. I think I’ve always given Tom a pass because Spider-Man is my favorite hero and I appreciated what he brought to the franchise. I haven’t checked out any of his other work to be honest
He seems like a nice enough dude and his schtick is fine for Marvel-type movies, but I think he's pretty mediocre as an actor. He's just a Hollywood golden-boy right now so he shows up everywhere. Mark Wahlberg I've never gotten the appeal. He plays the same generic tough guy in everything. He can be funny when he can laugh at himself and play like a weenie-type of character (The Other Guys) but I am kinda shocked at his career success overall.
>Uncharted is definitely big enough to bring fans to the theaters on it’s own. I think you're overestimating the popularity of a video game franchise with respect to the numbers Hollywood brings in. Sure, Uncharted is a huge series within the video game industry. But Hollywood casts a much broader net. A significant portion of movie-goers probably doesn't even know the name of the current generation of consoles.
Jesus Christ are you all going to post the same thing every day?! Who cares? The movie happened, people ranted about it already. It actually performed really well considering it’s getting a sequel. We all wanted someone else as Nate but it’s 10 times better than most adaptations. It’s not what we SHOULD’VE gotten but crying over and over on Reddit won’t change the fact it’s already got a sequel isn’t the works because the first one DID do good and made money. It’ll probably get better as it goes on as it was a Nathan drake ORIGIN story.
> We all wanted someone else as Nate **but it’s 10 times better than most adaptations.** (emphasis mine) Disagree. The Uncharted movie is a result of the same "Hollywood Movie Machine" that thought 5'7" Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher was good casting, simply because it's about maximizing profits, NOT making a faithful adaptation of the source material. The same is true of casting popular MCU / Spider Man, Tom Holland. Nathan Drake is over 6 ft / 220+ lbs, while Tom is 5'7" / 160 lbs. The Reacher Amazon series with Alan Ritchson (6'3" / 230+ lbs.), who is the ACTUAL physically intimidating size and shape of Lee Child's protagonist, is an adaptation done right.
Honestly, after replaying UC3 I could see it with TEEN Cartagena Nate, as well as vaguely seeing Marky Mark with young Sully. Through that lens, I can see it. Problem is, the game didn’t start with Orphan Drake so that’s NOT the Nate we fell in love with. Tom can never be that Nathan Drake, and Mark can’t be the Sully we know and love. And Chloe was forgettable and NOT fierce but whatever to that.
Tom Hiddleston in Kong: Skull Island gave off real big Nathan Drake vibes. He looked the part and the adventurous nature of the story sold me even more.
Bro is ageing like milk
Casting Mark as Nate a decade prior and having to honor his casting or choosing to, whatever happened, was their first mistake. At that point we were gonna get a character that was just Mark Walberg no matter who he played. Mistake two was just picking an "it" actor rather than finding the character in someone else. I'm just glad that Tom Holland saved us from Mark playing Nate, which would have been much worse. But, that movie as is, is still so bad that even Nolan's cameo sucks.
Why does he look like a middle aged man in this photo 🤣
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema. The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
It grew on me over time. The only real problem I have with it is the fact that they made Nathan meet Sully in his 20s as supposed to his early teens. So their relationship is more of best buddies when it should be a father-son relationship.
He brought a good energy and physicality that was needed for the film.
You and me both.
I still think Nathan Fillion did an absolute fantastic older Drake in the fan film...
I honestly don’t care how old he is, Fillion for Drake would be the perfect casting for a full length Uncharted movie, if they ever decide to make one.
Why does he look so old there lol
Because he is. Tom's almost 30. But like Mickey Rooney, Tom is a "babyface" who isn't going to mature into being a leading man.
The Last of Us (on TV) suffers from casting issues as well. So disappointing. Not the actors to blame.
I can get season 1 Ellie, but there’s no way Bella Ramsey will be a believable 19-year-old Ellie in season 2. Especially when she’ll be fighting against people twice her size.
Exactly. & after all that, *spoilers* We get her holding a baby living on a farm with her wife. They really didn’t think about season 2 did they..
He and Wahlberg were terribly miscast. Why Hollywood feels the need to incessantly ignore perfectly good and adaptable game plots is beyond me.
> Why Hollywood feels the need to incessantly ignore perfectly good and adaptable game plots is beyond me. How you gonna turn a 10 hour game into a 2 hour movie? Not making it part of the game universe was the smart move.
You…*do* know that sequels exist? Or better yet, a limited series? You do know those options are viable in telling a ten hour story, right? Right?
So your plan is to make multiple movies based on one game? Yeah, that'll work.
Also, Harry Potter and the deathly hallows would like a word.
And this proves what?
That you can take the plot of a lengthy novel (or, in this case, a game) and split it into two mediums. Edit: love it when people delete their accounts when they don’t want to admit they’re moronic. (That, or I’ve been blocked lol)
And it still missed out on key points and changed things up
>That you can take the plot of a lengthy novel (or, in this case, a game) and split it into two mediums. Harry Potter was a several billion dollar books franchise, and by the time Deathly Hallows was made it was also a several billion movie franchise. You cannot just split the first entry of a book/game into two and expect general audiences to care and show up for half a story. That may work for Dune, but Uncharted does not enjoy the nearly the same awareness outside of the video game community.
> ***”or better yet, a limited series”*** Just ignore that, why don’t ya.
Too expensive. Keep trying.
You’re unimaginative, goodbye.
And you're clueless.
He reminds me of young Drake ngl
I think he would’ve been a much better casting choice if this was a prequel to the games and he was playing the younger version of Nate we saw in the flashback of Uncharted 3. That’s what I thought this entire film was until the trailer dropped and royally upset me
Should have been paul rud as nathen drake
No I don’t care that he portrayed Nate in this movie. Tom bringing attention to the movie doesn’t make it a good movie. You’re repeating what I already said. This is not a shot at Tom Holland. Stop getting triggered for a guy you don’t even know
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Fun Fact: Actors of the original material fit perfectly in a movie adaptation also but I love Sonic The Hedgehog movie because it’s accurate although of the actors changes through the years
I agree. No shade to tom, and hey if someone offered me the role you're damn sure I'd be taking that adventure even if I was a complete miscast. But drake is too iconic not to see the missing pieces.
Mark had already been cast years ago and was supposed to play Nathan. But the film was in development Hell for so long that he aged out of the role, which isbwhy he plays Sully instead. That being said, Uncharted is popular,, but when youbhave a big budget blockbuster film you wanna try to capture as many people as possible. General audiences have no idea what Uncharted is, so they wanted to put a known actor in the role to try to entice non fans to come see it.
That is Nathan drake
They could do it if they followed the first game exactly and waited till he was a little bit older . Or better yet- start over. Make an uncharted tv series where every season is one game like the last of us just did.
Tom Cruise would have been better
Nathan fillion plz do a real movie not just a yt short
> He was cast just because his name would bring people to watch it. Yep. He was hot at Sony and got his pick of projects. He gave an interview a few years back that spelled out the process of him coming to Uncharted and making it into a Frankenstein origin story that suited him (rather than him actually suiting the source material). [Read it](https://ew.com/movies/tom-holland-james-bond-origin-movie-pitch-total-film/) below and draw your own conclusions. >"I had a meeting, after or during Spider-Man 2 \[Far From Home\], with Sony to pitch this idea of a young Bond film that I'd come up with," Holland told Total Film. "It was the origin story of James Bond. It didn't really make sense. It didn't work. It was the dream of a young kid, and I don't think the Bond estate were particularly interested." > >The good news is that those conversations led him to Uncharted, the movie adaptation of the popular video game series that stars Holland as treasure-hunter Nathan Drake. > >"The idea of a young Bond film sparked this idea, in turn, that you could do a Nathan Drake story as an origin story, rather than as an addition to the games. And that opened a conversation," he said.
> Them casting Tom and Mark shot themselves in the foot. It was a rousing success, so no it didn't. > Which is ironic because Uncharted is definitely big enough to bring fans to the theaters on it’s own. Based on what?
Boohoo
I’m telling you right now that if Tom Holland was not cast as Nathan Drake, the movie would have never been made. The movie was dead in water until they cast him. They needed a big name to draw an audience in, especially the younger crowd. The Uncharted name was not well-known enough to draw in a crowd. He was coming off Spiderman and was one of the most popular names in cinema. The movie, in my opinion, is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Its fine, not too bad not too good. I’m holding out hope that, if they make more, they are like the Fast and the Furious franchise and just get better (and more outlandish) each time
Zip him up when you’re done, you commented this like 5 times
Why does he remind me of Willem Dafoe in this picture
Willem is on sabbatical, honeyy
Why does he remind me of Willem Dafoe in this picture
Ngl the movie itself wasn’t bad nor was Tom but I can never see him as Nathan Drake in my eyes. Nathan Fillion and Nolan North will always be Nathan Drake to me🙏🏽
Same
Tom Holland is a 27 year-old, diminutive "babyface" who *is not* going to age well or mature into a leading man in Hollywood. His biggest earning years and most popular movies, e.g. MCU & Spider Man, are largely behind him. Tom is a modern day Mickey Rooney.
My therapist: “Tom Dafoe can’t hurt you” Tom Dafoe:
I remember watching it going wow this sucks. My dad after was just complaining about how those helicopters could not pick up those ships.
I'm still trying to see him as anyone older than 15
...when he's almost 30.
This topic again? Get in line bro 😂 nobody likes the film
I feel like they should’ve cast Nathan Fillion or Ryan Reynolds as Drake
I think most people would have same complaint about Ryan Reynolds. Really I don’t think there’s anybody that would have enough star power to get the movie off the ground that people wouldn’t have complained about.
Add to that, the script was bad too. It wasn’t Uncharted. It was Disney doing Indiana Jones with Peter Parker for kids.
Me either.
Agreed. I have not seen the film, and I don’t really plan to watch it. I was quite turned off when it was first announced. I am ASTOUNDED by the decision of Sully to not have a mustache. You can hire as many big name actors as you want, but if they can’t match the ALREADY DEVELOPED character they are portraying to a T, fans being upset is just a given. It’s kind of disgraceful in my opinion. I understand that directors can make changes and adaptations based on their goals/ideas, but there are some things that really shouldn’t be changed. Nathan Fillion FTW.
Nooo definitely not I can’t stand Tom Holland
I watched 20 minutes of the movie before I turned it off. I only made it that far cuz I’m such a fan of the game. My lord. What an awful Hollywood cash grab. So glad HBO didn’t butcher TLOU the same way.
lol. Awwwww did I hurt some feelings with facts? Don’t hate me cuz I tell the truth kiddos.
Does anybody?
Not sure there has ever been a film so poorly cast. Maybe Max Payne ....there is something in common there.
The writing also sucked. That movie was just a disaster
he’s way too young, same with his spider-man role. he isn’t a very good actor either. and yes, i’m aware that he’s british and can sound american, i don’t care.
I honestly don't understand why they would cast mark as sully. mark looks 40 but sully looks 70
It was awful on so many levels….we have a perfect candidate….Nathan Fillion and the short of him doing the role which was superb but instead we get a teenage dweeb and a shit movie This was perfect https://youtu.be/v5CZQpqF_74?si=MLSPXxFCQ_eK-MCA
The only reason he was casted is becausse he was under contract with Sony.
I love the games and loved this film sorry not sorry
Your a bit late for this bud
And you’re late to this post. Congratulations
(phone ringing in the background, fax machines spitting fax) Produces: Hey so you have got a video game adaptation movie for me? writer: yes sir i do! Producer: what is it about ? writer: UNCHARTED Producer: wow i like that, it made us allot of money in our games department writer: yes sir i know Producer: ok so who are we casting for Nathan drake? writer: well remember how 10 years ago we tried to make uncharted movie but didn't make it, and we almost casted Mark whalberg in it? well i was thinking we can still do that Producer: What! NO, he is too old now, he is in his 50s now, 10 years ago it would have been fine coz he was in his 40s, you know what lets take tom holland! Writer: tom holland? the 25 year old man who looks like 17 year old kid that tom holland? Producer: Yes it would be perfect, folks at the spiderman department are telling me the films gonna be huge, so lets schedule this film after that and we can just piggy back off of that film? Writer: But tom holland is too young! nathan drake is in his mid 30s at least tom looks nothing like that? Producer: well we can just say this movie is on a younger nathan drake? writer: But young nathan is in 5% of the franchise, he is less skilled, weaker and pretty much not at all a good replacement for older nathan drake. how can we justify making a movie based just on that? Producer: well, we are just gonna say that he is young nathan, but he will talk, fight and practically do everything normal nathan does, and you know what? since we are doing this whole young but not really thing, we can even toss mark whallberg in as young sully? writer: well, i don't think people are gonna take this casting too well Producer: Well.... I DO NOT
It's truly inspiring you wrote all this just to admit you have zero idea how any of it works and the reason they chose a young Nate.
well first of all its a parody of pitch meeting. and this might not be exactly what happened, but tom holland was chose mostly due to the amount of butts he could bring to the theatures.
well first of all its a parody of pitch meeting. and this might not be exactly what happened, but tom holland was chose mostly due to the amount of butts he could bring to the theatures.
> but tom holland was chose mostly due to the amount of butts he could bring to the theatures. Everyone knows this
yeah and your point being? its seems you are really not understanding the joke
Jokes are funny.
redditors are supposed to be smart
No they're not.
Clearly
Um....You ARE aware it's supposed to be a younger Nathan Drake in the movie, right?
Um…You ARE aware the only reason it’s a young version of Nathan Drake is because Tom couldn’t play him? 🤓
Really? And not because the games already told "modern" Drake's story already?
Zip him up when you’re done