We wish we could say were getting an Uncharted movie at some point — Sony probably wishes they could say so too — but the project has been hit with
yet another delay. This time, it’s for a very familiar reason….the director they hired had to bail.
Uncharted: The Movie was first announced in 2009 and its first director, David O. Russell, was hired in 2010. Russell left the project in 2011, and was replaced by Neil Burger (The Illusionist). Burger took one bite and split in 2012…two years after that, Sony announced the hiring of Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses). He also left one year later, and a year after that, Sony re-announced the movie and said Shawn Levy would direct. Two years later, Levy bailed.
Altogether, Uncharted has now spent over a decade in development hell, despite being (in theory) as simple to execute as an Indiana Jones ripoff would be. What hurts about...
