Uncharted Movie Could Go Forward With An Unlikely Director

Who will direct the big screen adaptation of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune? The LA Times reports that the [[link]] film’s producers and Sony, the studio backing the flick, have a short list of favorites that includes David O. Russell. Who’s that?(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); https://kotaku.com/uncharted-movie-incoming-30976608 You may know him best as the director of Gulf War drama Three Kings or comedies Flirting With Disaster and I ♥ Huckabees. Or you may simply know him as the dude who likes to get into physical and verbal spats with his cast, his crew and his peers. Here’s a classic video of Russell and Lily Tomlin exchanging a litany of f-bombs on the set of I ♥ Huckabees. The LA Times’ report notes that Sony seems pretty pleased with the Uncharted script that [[link]] new screenwriters Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer delivered. https://kotaku.com/rumor-uncharted-movie-changing-screenwriter-5410605 As long as the movie is packed with wall-to-wall platforming and accurately half-tucked thermal shirts, we’ll be thrilled. [[link]] If there’s some explosive behind the scenes footage of a director roughing up his Nathan Drake, even better. Spanking the ‘Drake’? David O. Russell on producers’ list for popular video game adaptation [LA Times]