That sequel to the 2022 Uncharted movie that roughly 5 of us really preferred is formally in manufacturing. The information was confirmed by Selection earlier immediately after Sony talked about an Uncharted sequel at CineEurope 2024 whereas working down its pipeline of upcoming films.
The Uncharted movie, which was set to be launched on the peak of the pandemic earlier than quite a few delays, lastly launched in 2022. Although it debuted to combined critiques, the film was a field workplace success, warranting an apparent sequel.
Although we all know little or no concerning the Uncharted sequel in the meanwhile, it’s seemingly protected to imagine that the film’s leads, Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg, will probably be reprising their roles because the rogue duo of Nathan Drake and Victor “Sully” Sullivan, respectively. The primary film acted as a kind of origin story for the way the now-iconic treasure hunters first met, and far of the video games have charted the event of their relationship, making their dynamic simple fodder to proceed mining for additional films.
The ending of the Uncharted movie additionally explicitly units up the start of the primary sport, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, which follows Nate and Sully as they observe down the treasure of Nate’s namesake, Sir Francis Drake, and are available throughout some Nazi fuckery throughout their journey. Although the subsequent movie may very well be an authentic story very like the primary, following the video games from right here on out looks as if a reasonably pure development.
If the Uncharted sequel movie does observe the video games and adapts the primary one, it can additionally seemingly introduce one of many final main characters of the primary solid: Elena Fisher. Elena is a reporter who follows (and funds) Nate and Sully’s journey within the first sport, however over the course of the collection, she turns into Nate’s foil and ultimately even his spouse. Their will-they-won’t-they dynamic, in addition to Elena’s distinctive means to chop proper by way of Nate’s BS, offers us among the greatest components of the video games. Their banter and sweeping romance is ripe for the massive display, and if I’m being sincere, the primary movie felt prefer it was actually missing Elena.
Outdoors of the affirmation that one other Uncharted movie is within the works, the collection has been fairly quiet for some time now. After retiring Nate in 2016’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s Finish, there’s solely been one different title within the franchise, which was the next 12 months’s Uncharted: The Misplaced Legacy. That spinoff, which started as an growth to A Thief’s Finish, adopted Chloe Frazer, one other most important character of the collection who did occur to characteristic within the first movie. Contemplating it’s now been seven years since that sport got here out, some really feel prefer it’s time for a brand new Uncharted sport moderately than one other movie.
Naughty Canine, the studio that created Uncharted, has been busy since transferring on from the collection although, predominantly with its different megaton multimedia franchise, The Final of Us. Whereas there’s little hope of the studio selecting again up the reins, Sony has loads of different studios that might take up the mantle, or sufficient sources to type a workforce to do it. Perhaps sooner or later we’ll get the Uncharted sequel that people really need.
