CONAN Screenwriters Are Now The Writers Of UNCHARTED

This is probably why game based movies tend to disappoint us because the producers often don’t hire the right quality screenwriters. This past summer, it was announced that Columbia pictures is developing UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE with Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner producing with scribe Kyle Ward (HITMAN 2, KANE & LYNCH) in charge of the screenplay. But Latinoreview has reported that the deal with Ward never went through and now the job belongs to a screenwriting duo…

Their names are Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, they’re team writing the new CONAN reboot with Marcus Nispel directing. They’re also the guys who unfortunately wrote 2 of the most awful movies in the last decade, Sahara starring Matthew McConaughey and A Sound Of Thunder starring Ed Burns.
This means we shouldn’t get our hopes up about UNCHARTED. I’ve been hearing people anticipating PRINCE OF PERSIA the movie to be the first decent game-based movie in a while. I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one either.

UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE was created by American video company Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It sold 1 million copies in the first 10 weeks of its release at the end of 2007. It’s an action-adventure combining platforming and third-person shooter elements, it charts the journey of Nathan Drake, supposed descendant of the explorer Sir Francis Drake, as he seeks the lost treasure of El Dorado, the mythical legendary city of gold along with the help of friend Victor “Sully” Sullivan and journalist Elena Fisher. Along the way they encounter competition from rival hunter and threats from creatures that are actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis