For those of you not well versed in the corporate parentage of movie studios (Gulf + Western who?) we'll remind you: Columbia Pictures is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group. And the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group is, in turn, a part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. And you'll never guess who owns ... oh, you already guessed? So, yeah, through a labyrinth of corporate relationships, Sony is making a movie based on a game made by a studio owned by Sony.
Regardless, The Hollywood Reporter, uh ... reports that the movie follows the plot of the first game - the project is titled Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - wherein "a treasure hunter named Nate Drake ... believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue." Oh, and what about that other part of the first game? "The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is racheted up several notches when creatures -- actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis -- begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure's true secrets."
Creatures confirmed.
[via @geoffkeighley]
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune movie underway at Columbia Pictures originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.