20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait

A big-screen adaptation of the hit video game franchise Uncharted actually entered development way back in 2008, just a year after the original game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, was released on the PlayStation 3.

In the years that followed a whole host of directors cycled through the project, including David O. Russell, Neil Burger, Seth Gordon, Dan Trachtenberg, Shawn Levy, and Travis Knight, before it was finally filmed under Ruben Fleischer in 2020.

But as is so often the case with movies based on video games which are themselves heavily inspired by cinema, Uncharted ended up feeling like a facsimile of a facsimile - a blandly watered down adventure film that couldn't even muster up a few basically energising set-pieces.

The decision to cast Tom Holland as a younger version of Nathan Drake was divisive with fans, while Mark Wahlberg's role as sidekick Sully was panned by just about everyone.

All in all Uncharted lacked the source material's technical ingenuity, charm, or basic sense of fun, and so it's little surprise that nobody's rushed to get that planned sequel going.