UNCHARTED Movie to be Written By NATIONAL TREASURE Scribes

The screenwriters behind Disney's National Treasure franchise, Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, have been hired by Sony Pictures to re-write the script for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. This is a video game adaptation many of us have been excited about since it was first announced. Apparently the studio just can't seem to move it forward into production. 

David O' Russell was the first director attached to it. Limitless director Neil Burger took his place, but now he's no longer attached to direct it either. The studio will wait until the script is complete before they go out and hire another director. 

I'm not the biggest fan of the National Treasure franchise, but I can see why Sony wanted them to take a crack at the script. National Treasure has a lot of similarities to Uncharted. Except Uncharted is a lot more bad ass, and the video games had better stories and scripts than the National Treasure movies. 

The story follows a treasure hunter named Nate Drake, a descendant of explorer Sir Francis Drake, who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is ratcheted up several notches when creatures, mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis, begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.

Hopefully one day when the movie gets made, it will have been worth the wait. What do you think of the National Treasure guys taking on the script for the film? Who would you like to see come on board and direct Uncharted?