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Friday, May 27, 2011

Uncharted the Movie, Still a Chance!

Yes, Sony and their open-door policy regarding my personal information and credit card numbers has been irritating me a bit of late.  But at least for the moment they went from goat to hero for this old gamer when I heard that they had, in essence, fired the idiot director David Russell from making the upcoming Uncharted movie - which apparently is no longer upcoming, at least for now.

From the article in yesterday's Variety: 

"A pair of tentpole-sized studio projects have lost their helmers, as David O. Russell exited "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune" over creative differences with Sony".



Word is that Sony is now searching for a new writer/director for the movie and the casting is starting from scratch.  I don't even care anymore whether or not it's Fillion playing Drake. I'm just glad they are restarting to try and hopefully stay a little closer to the storyline instead of Russel's opium-fueled vision of a globetrotting family of treasure protectors - or whatever the hell it was.  And of course, the big win here for mankind at large, is that there is just a little bit less of Marky Mark Wahlberg in the movies.  I think everyone can agree with me, even Mark himself because I have to believe he is filled with self-loathing, that less Marky is good for everybody.

So thank you Sony. I salute you.  Now seriously, stop giving away my credit card numbers. 
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7 comments:

  1. Fallguy40May 27, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    Hey, I need the 3-digit code on the back of your card...oh nevermind.

    This is good news. That dude's "vision" for Uncharted was not cool.

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  2. MadPlanetMay 27, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    That movie would have been total crap. Of course, historically the caliber of the films based on video games has been extremely low. And it's not like the game's plot is all that novel as a movie - gaming-wise it was awesome but movie-wise it will probably just end up being a forgetable action flick. Still - I'd like it to be true to the game and I'd like to not have to look at Wahlberg to watch it. So yeah - good news.

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  3. Fallguy40May 29, 2011 at 6:56 AM

    I was watching The Hangover last night and it occured to me that the guy that plays Doug in the movie would be a good choice to play Drake. The guy's name is Justin Bartha. He was also in the National Treaure movies.

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  4. MadPlanetMay 29, 2011 at 3:20 PM

    yeah I could see that. He would work for me as Drake

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  5. gnomeJune 9, 2011 at 2:25 AM

    You are being too touchy about your credit card, don't you think so? I mean what would you expect Sony to do? Protect stuff? Tsk, tsk.

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  6. MadPlanetJune 9, 2011 at 2:46 AM

    Well, they did give out quite a few free downloadable games when they got the PSN store back online and as far as I know so far no one as stolen my identity or anything. So I guess I'm OK with them for now. Of course a few of the games were shite that weren't worth much anyway so...

    I've never trusted giving out my credit card number to any online service regardless of how secure they claim to be. Everyone is hackable. Like Anthony Wiener's Twitter account.

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  7. gnomeJune 10, 2011 at 4:10 AM

    Wise words indeed. Which reminds me... Amazon has my details.

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