Columbia Pictures picked up the rights to a screen adaptation of the video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune back in June, and Kyle Ward was quickly attached to write.
Due to other commitments, Ward has now gracefully bowed out of the project, and screenwriting duo Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer stepped in to take his place.
The two writers were responsible for Sahara, Conan, Cowboys & Aliens, and the upcoming adaptation of the comic book Dead of Night.
Donnelly and Oppenheimer will have their hands full writing the action-packed adaptation. The video game, which sold 1 million copies in its first 10 weeks on the market, follows treasure hunter Nate Drake who is, of course, descended from the famous explorer Sir Francis Drake.
Drake believes a cursed statue has revealed to him the location of the legendary city of El Dorado, and sets out to find the treasure that is said to be hidden there. A rival treasure hunter gives Drake some tough competition, but nothing compared to the “mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis” that wage attacks on any who try to learn about the secrets of the treasure of El Dorado.
They are definitely going to have their work cut out for them on this one.
Avi Arad, Ari Arad, Charles Rove, and Alex Gartner will be producing the film.
