As hard as it is to believe, the long-in-the-works Uncharted movie is, after almost a decade in pre-production and seven directors later, finally go; and with shooting now underway, the internet has been given a first glimpse of Tom Holland in the lead role.
A movie adaptation of Naughty Dog’s beloved action series was, you might recall, initially announced all the way back in 2009. Since then, six directors – Travis Knight, Dan Trachtenberg, Shawn Levy, Seth Gordon, Neil Burger, and David O Russell – have joined and left the project, but a seventh finally stuck in the form of Zombieland and Venom director Ruben Fleischer.
Fleischer’s inherited cast includes Spider-Man’s Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg (who was originally set to play Drake in an early, and rather massively ill-conceived, stab at the project) as his mentor Sully.
Holland has, of course, been attached to the project for some time, but it’s only now that we’ve finally had a chance to see him in full costume (and with a liberal application of mud) for the role, courtesy of a new set photo shared today on his Instagram account.