UNCHARTED Columbia Finds FORTUNE

If you’re a producer and you wanna make a movie based on your favorite video game, you might wanna call Kyle Ward to write the screenplay because lately he seems to be the go-to guy for this job. He’s in charge of the scripts for HITMAN 2 and the upcoming KANE & LYNCH. He didn’t have much in his resume before.. but now he’s like in demand. According to Hollywood Repoter, Columbia Pictures also has hired him to pen yet another game-based adaptation, UNCHARTED: DRAKE’S FORTUNE with Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad and Alex Gartner producing.

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
Think of Drake as Indiana Jones without the hat and the bullwhip, but lots of shooting.

* Here’s the trailer for the video game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune