Who will direct the big screen adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune? The LA Times reports that the film’s producers and Sony, the studio backing the flick, have a short list of favorites that includes David O. Russell. Who’s that?
https://kotaku.com/uncharted-movie-incoming-30976608
You may know him best as the director of Gulf War drama Three Kings or comedies Flirting With Disaster and I ā„ Huckabees. Or you may simply know him as the dude who likes to get into physical and verbal spats with his cast, his crew and his peers. Here’s a classic video of Russell and Lily Tomlin exchanging a litany of f-bombs on the set of I ā„ Huckabees.
The LA Times’ report notes that Sony seems pretty pleased with the Uncharted script that new screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer delivered.
https://kotaku.com/rumor-uncharted-movie-changing-screenwriter-5410605
As long as the movie is packed with wall-to-wall platforming and accurately half-tucked thermal shirts, we’ll be thrilled. If there’s some explosive behind the scenes footage of a director roughing up his Nathan Drake, even better.
Spanking the āDrake’? David O. Russell on producers’ list for popular video game adaptation [LA Times]
