“The mistake would have been to transpose to the cinema the same thing as in the game”

After more than 40 million titles sold on PlayStation consoles, the game Uncharted is now entering the cinema. The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer, starring Tom Holland who also takes on the role of executive producer. Watch the video interview above.

In Uncharted, the actor shares the bill with Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas. Everyone goes in search of a lost treasure: the gold coins of the explorer Magellan. Tom Holland is well aware of the challenge to satisfy both gamers and moviegoers. “There is a form of stigmatization of films derived from video games. In the profession, we even say that there is a kind of curse”, thus entrusted to us the young man of 25 years, of passage in Paris on February 11, for the promotion of film of action and adventure.

So how do you successfully adoptUncharted ? “The best way to do this was to take inspiration from the game series and of course recreate some familiar scenes from gamers. At the same time, the mistake would have been to do the exact same thing. So for the film, we tried to create something new, fresh, different. It was both challenging and fun”continues Tom Holland.

In order for the two universes to marry, the designers of the video game on PlayStation collaborated with the film team, from the script to the editing. “If we were given the responsibility of bringing this game to the screen, we wanted to work with those who had created it. So we spoke to them, they gave us their opinion, their approval too, which meant a lot to us. . Then we got the cameras ready and we started filming,” explains the one who simultaneously defends Spider-Man: No Way Homereleased in December and which has just crossed 7 million admissions.