Why ‘Uncharted’ Director Ruben Fleischer Felt Trying to Recreate the Video Games Was ‘A Fool’s Errand’
thewrap.comThis project had been kicking around for so long. When you were brought on, did you end up looking at those earlier drafts or going through that history at all?Ruben Fleischer: No, I honestly was just focused on making the movie that I was hired to direct.
The script that they originally sent that I got involved with was so good. I didn’t feel a great need to go through the archives or whatever.
I felt like they totally captured the tone and spirit of the games. I could imagine Mark and Tom playing these characters. And the action set pieces that were written, I was so excited at the opportunity to get to bring them to life.What was it like being brought up to speed on this giant thing?It was daunting, but also really exciting just because this genre is one of my all-time favorite movie genres, the treasure-hunting, globe-trotting, “Raiders of the Lost Ark”-type genre is really… I mean, “Raiders” is my all-time favorite movie.
When I got sent this script, it totally evoked that feeling for me and fulfilled all my childhood dreams of why I wanted to be a filmmaker.
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