It is a series of adventure games claiming more than 40 million copies sold worldwide since its first installment in 2007. Uncharted is now a Hollywood blockbuster featuring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas. The film will be released in theaters on Wednesday February 16 and will certainly be highly scrutinized by fans who first experienced the title on PlayStation.
Uncharted is an action movie for the whole family with a treasure hunt across the planet, humor and puzzles to solve for Nathan Drake and Victor Sullivan, the two heroes. The work is notably produced by Avi Arad to whom we owe many Marvels. But also by PlayStation Productions, the Sony studio created in 2013 to make successful big-screen adaptations of games from the famous console.
Quite a difference. Because films derived from a video game have not always been a great success if we remember Super Mario Bros. (1993) or mortal kombat (1995). resident Evil (2002) had been able to make us keep faith in the genre. To produce Unchartedthe game designers collaborated with the film crew, from script to editing.
We can thus see in Unchartedthe movie, an epic moment fromUncharted 3, the game, when Nathan (Tom Holland) falls from a plane and tries to save himself by jumping mid-air onto a car and cargo packages. This single scene took almost a month to shoot. The film also presents itself as a “prequel” to the series of games by going back to the origins of the friendship between Nate and Sully. Fans of the game are therefore doubly served.
“We tried to create something new, fresh, different”, told us Tom Holland, actor and executive producer ofUncharted. We wanted video game fans to be able to appreciate the nostalgia and style of the film while celebrating the new aspects and nuances we put into the characters and the franchise. > Listen to the interview in full in the video above.
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Conversely, video games are also inspired by cinema such as the highly anticipated Sifu delivered this week by the French studio Soclap. The game is inspired by the movies Kill Bill, Blade, old boy and classics of Asian cinema. Sifu is also presented as “the kung-fu film of which you are the hero” in the words of Paul-Emile Boucher, artistic director of the game, himself from animation cinema.
> Paul-Emile Boucher explains how cinema and video games influence each other:
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