When it came to casting Uncharted champion Nathan Drake for film director Allan Ungar ’s devotee film , there was only ever one choice : Nathan Fillion
“ I had already chip at out plot line , a treatment , and I had my own ideas of what [ this fan film ] would be , ” said Ungar , who also co - wrote the cinema , to io9 . “ But when I get together with Nathan I said very candidly , ‘ Look , we do n’t acknowledge each other . I lie with we just met . But I ’m not going to continue with this if you ’re not even concerned because there ’s absolutely no stage . It would be futile . It would get the better of the entire purpose . ’ ” Thankfully , Fillion was concerned and the excellent Uncharted devotee filmthat came online earlier this week was deliver .
Fillion has long been the internet ’s choice to toy Nathan Drake , the star of Naughty Dog ’s Uncharted video game serial , if and when a picture got made . This is both because he ’s a dead ringer for the character reference and because , with Firefly and more , he ’s show a predilection for being the precise variety of heroic scoundrel Drake is . In that sentence , Sony Pictures , who has the right wing to Uncharted ’s film adaptation , has dally with a moving picture a few times : once with David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg andmost recently with Shawn Levy and Tom Holland . But along the fashion , Fillion has become a immense fan of the franchise , fiddle ( most ) of the games , and jumped at the opportunity to play the reference in any content .
“ I ’ve been waitress for , and I suppose we have all been wait for , the next Indiana Jones and it ’s Nathan Drake , ” Fillion tell io9 . “ And I , like Allan , like other fan , we ’re well-worn of waiting . We require to see something . Give us something . And we fuck the moviehas been talked about for agesbut we have n’t seen anything yet and we just want to do something and the timing was sodding . ”
The idea for the fan film came about when Ungar had a movie he was working on pushed back and dead detect himself with some free time . “ I had this window and I was trying to retrieve about what I want to expend my time doing . Something that I could get really passionate about , ” he said . “ This is something that had come to me a few years ago and I was like , ‘ Why has nobody done this yet ? ’ I keep feeling like someone was going to tucker out me to the punch . ”
In a world where big prop likePower Rangers , Portal , Voltronand others get high - quality fan motion-picture show pretty on a regular basis , Ungar got the ball rolling .
He knew had a supporter , manufacturer Alex Lebovici , who knew Fillion , and so Ungar pitched Uncharted to Lebovici , Lebovici exit a notation to the actor , and the two meet and hit it off . “ When I spoke to Allan about it , it was clear to me that he loves , purity , and observe what makes Uncharted so great , which is the story and the the characters , ” Fillion said .
But how does one make a 15 - second fan motion picture , on a budget , that honors and respects a franchise whose action sequences over four game would be hundreds of millions of dollars ? Ungar would n’t say how much the cinema , which shot for five days at the source of May , cost , just that “ I care to joke that it was my Bar Mitzvah money . ”
Whatever it be , he felt the best course of action was to do something unlike . “ You do n’t try out to rehash something that ’s already been done so attractively and so well , it does n’t make any common sense , ” Ungar say . “ That ’s really why I applaud Shawn Levy and Tom Holland , because their version of the moving-picture show , if it does get made , would be doing an origin account not base on something that ’s already been done . ”
Ungar accept a standardized coming . He came up with a story about a lose treasure in a bemused metropolis , linked them with some historical figures , and infuse it with as much Uncharted swagman as potential . But , because of the budget and schedule , it had to be somewhat contain .
“ I live that we would never , ever be able to go out into a temple or a castle or any of these other thing , ” Ungar read . “ That was the potency we discover when write it because it ’s about character and story . When we ’re go to do military action or were going do dialogue , [ I need ] ‘ How can we ensure that the tarradiddle and the character traits come first ? ’ So that was something that I was very conscientious about . ”
One signature musical composition of action Uncharted fans wo n’t discover in the film is Drake mounting and hanging from precarious places , which is how he spends much of his time in the game . That ’s not for deficiency of trying , explicate Ungar , it was only because it did n’t terminate up being fiscally , or physically , possible .
“ flop now he jumps out the windowpane , he land , and it wrick into the [ third - person one shot ] , ” Ungar explain . “ What it used to be was he jump out the window , he ’s sliding down the ceiling , his gun skids out and he go , ‘ No No No No ’ right out of the game . And then he ends up hang off the cap , it break , and he return . That was something we had written and would have been a lot of sport but looking at our agenda and what was and was n’t going to make common sense , we would ’ve had to work up the roof , bring in in more rigger brush , it just would not have been feasible . ”
There still are plenty of other winks and nod to Uncharted ’s fans , from the aforementioned shot , to some of Drake ’s physical fighting style , the underpin characters , and much more .
“ What I want to do was take easter eggs from each game , ” Ungar said . “ So [ for model ] he ’s wearing the outfit he wears in the quaternary secret plan . He ’s got [ Sir Francis Drake ’s ] pack which tell you , if [ the flick ] existed in that worldly concern , it ’s between secret plan two and three . ”
Despite the cliffhanger at the end of the short , there are currently no plans to make a subsequence , at least for now . “ I ’m a never say never guy , ” Fillion said , “ decently now , everything that we set out to do we have accomplished . So it ’s already a dream come unfeigned . ”
Still , the threshold remains open . “ I said to Nathan when we first suffer , ‘ If this be and die as just a 15 - minute piece we ’ll have done everything we need to do , ’ ” Ungar sum up . “ Now , if Sony or Netflix or Amazon or YouTube or someone came ahead and aver , ‘ Hey , there ’s enough demand for this , do you guys want to continue this tarradiddle ? ’ We ’d be very felicitous to talk about it . ”
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