Mark Wahlberg Confirms He Will Star In UNCHARTED. They Are In Talks With De Niro-Pesci

Earlier this month you heard a rumor that Director David O. Russell who’s set to write and direct the game-based movie UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE wants his THE FIGHTER star Mark Wahlberg to play the lead and word had it that Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci might be offered roles in this project. Talking with MTV recently, Wahlberg confirmed all of it to be true..

Wahlberg said Russell has started writing it..

“David is one of the best writer/directors I’ve ever worked with,”
“The idea that he has is just insane. So hopefully we’ll be making that movie this summer.”

Wahlberg and Russell have reached out to De Niro and Pesci respectively, inviting them to join in

“That’s who he wants to write the parts for. I talked to Pesci about it and I know David’s people have talked to [Robert De Niro].”
“I’m obviously in whatever David wants to do but the idea of it is so off the charts: De Niro being my father, Pesci being my uncle. It’s not going to be the watered-down version, that’s for sure.”

Previous draft was penned by CONAN reboot scribes Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. The project is produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner.
David O. Rusell will write the latest draft and direct the project

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