10 Scrapped Video Game Movies We're Still Dying To See

2. Uncharted

Many video games are simply too indebted to movies to be adaptable into a movie; Grand Theft Auto, for instance, is such a brilliantly blatant pastiche of numerous crime thrillers over the past four decades that to make a movie of it would seem like blatant plagiarism. If the game already holds a mirror up to a movie, a movie based on that game simply will not work, and though the Uncharted franchise is very clearly an homage to the Indiana Jones franchise, it's also different enough that there's certainly room for Nathan Drake to land on the silver screen. The sad thing is that we came so close to this actually happening. David O. Russell - who has plenty of experience with both action and drama - was signed on to direct the movie for Columbia, with Mark Wahlberg playing Nathan Drake and Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci reportedly playing his dad and uncle. O. Russell was hammering out the script in 2010, but due to creative differences with Columbia, he bailed, and so too did the cast. Limitless' Neil Burger than took a stab, but also dropped out. Since then, even Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have noted that they were approached to write the film. I don't at all see Wahlberg in this role; won't someone just give Nathan Fillion a shot? Hell, the guy even wants to do it...