Director Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist) was recently named as the director to the Uncharted movie and he’s said all the right things about appealing to fans of the games. While the movie is being produced outside of the purview of Naughty Dog, creative director Amy Hennig has been in regular contact with the film’s producers.
“The producers of the movie project have a lot of integrity, and they are keen to make the kind of film fans of Uncharted want to see made,” said Uncharted 3 co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand. “We’ve been impressed at Naughty Dog with the level of interest they’ve shown in talking to us and to Amy [Hennig, creative director] in particular in order to get it right. The attachment of Neil Burger to the project is a very good sign in that regard.”
“I’ve always been very excited about it,” Lemarchand continued. “I’m interested in this concept of transmedia, perhaps because of the kind of media environment I grew up in, that we all grew up in. I’m a big Doctor Who and Star Wars fan. You have the primary thing, which is the TV show or the movies, but then you extend your enjoyment by re-experiencing those story worlds through these other channels. We’re all big fans of film. We had to study on the techniques of cinema very diligently to be able to make these games. So yeah, I remain excited about the future of the Uncharted feature film.”
Source: Eurogamer
