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Neil Druckmann states Uncharted film script does NOT have the support of ND.
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RedAssedApe
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Please cast nicholas cage
It's got swearing out the ass, a fair bit of violence and dismemberment and a pretty lengthy sex scene that has at least one fetish indulged. Maybe it's not a Tarantino film, but it's decidedly R-rated all the same.
100%
I look forward to my favorite game ever being thoroughly destroyed by some low-talent hack.
Death Penalty
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Deadpool is the definition of an R rated movie.
Booker Dewitt
Member
The man exploding on a street sign alone makes Deadpool hard R.
DangerMouse
Member
I agree. If he really ran it by them and they liked it I think that would be a pretty good sign.
Yeah, that would have been the best.
This is either going to be amazing or shit, probably nothing in between, if it actually happens.
bitbydeath
Member
No graphic sex scenes or anything horrific though. The movie is pretty tame for what R standards should be.
Tame for R-rated is Nebraska, which got one for all of three swear words total. Deadpool is no Nebraska.
I doubt the Uncharted movie will be even half as good as National Treasure, though...
bitbydeath
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Point is it doesn't take much for a movie to be rated R in the US.
Trigonometrize.
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I disagree with this sentiment entirely and I still don't want an Uncharted movie.
You're sadly right, but Deadpool is firmly an R-rated movie regardless of those standards.
TemplaerDude
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It will but it will be absolutely nothing that anyone wants at all aside from excecutives up in Hollywood who'll just go "AH WELL YOU SEE THIS IS WHY VIDEO GAMES DONT MAKE GOOD MOVIES" when it inevitably flops.
TangentialShark
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No support from Neil Druckmann? Well, at least its got that going for it.
Possumowner
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There should be a movie made about the endless video gaming related movie failures...Get on it Spielberg
brandonh83
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Naughty Dog put a lot of effort to achieve a solid level of cinematic quality, like the point of the games was to be able to play through an Indiana Jones-like movie.
........................now they're just making a movie anyway
Yo dawg I heard you like serial adventure movies so we're gonna make a videogame based on those kinds of movies to make you feel like you're playing a movie but we're also gonna make a movie about the games that were made to be like movies
DangerMouse
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This too. He doesn't really deserve any flack, he didn't imply they had ND or Druckmann's support, he literally said he heard people at ND liked the script and even went out of his way to say that the way he got to "hear it" meant that it might have been complete bullshit and not true (like Trump). He could have left that part out like most do when they want to imply they have support they don't or pretend they actually spoke.
Certainly possible. National Treasure was a lot of fun, wouldn't mind if it at least got to that level.
But yeah, it'll probably be shit though.
WordAssassin
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This seems weird to me. Like... Neil's quote even has the words "it may not be true at all" in it.
Writer: I heard they like it, but that might not be true, who knows, just what I heard.
Neil: I WISH HE'D STOP IMPLYING WE LIKE IT
Comes off as needlessly aggressive when he could just say "Whoever's told you that was wrong, nobody here has seen your script yet."
Writer: I heard they like it, but that might not be true, who knows, just what I heard.
Neil: I WISH HE'D STOP IMPLYING WE LIKE IT
Comes off as needlessly aggressive when he could just say "Whoever's told you that was wrong, nobody here has seen your script yet."
Sword Of Doom
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Another shitty video game movie in the works
VeryGooster
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I would watch a movie about trying to get the Super Mario Bros. movie made.
veloxStrix
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Seems like the whole thing is silly. The director didn't say anything that seems incorrect. Said he had heard ND liked it, but who really knows? He never talked to them. Druckmann goes out of his way to correct that with a fairly passive aggressive tone. Not really sure why it matters that much, to be honest.
The whole situation seems fairly innocuous. I'm more concerned with the batches of NeoGAF posters who can't seem to be able to see the first post of the thread. Seems like something the admins should fix before it affects more people.
Sony owns Naughty Dog.
The whole situation seems fairly innocuous. I'm more concerned with the batches of NeoGAF posters who can't seem to be able to see the first post of the thread. Seems like something the admins should fix before it affects more people.
Sony owns Naughty Dog.
Back-In-Black
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The problem was that it wasn't the first time it was implied to have their backing.
bitbydeath
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Just saw the movie 'It follows' recently, that is what i'd call horrific, not just violence but the lead up and feels behind it.
brandonh83
Banned
It's not going to be steaming hot trash because ND isn't in the loop.
It's going to be steaming hot trash because it's being produced by Sony Pictures and the writer's take on the franchise seems questionable going by him constantly parading that it's rated SO R. So, so very R. Hard as fuck. Ham.
But even if he wrote a good script that did justice to the games, it'd still be steaming hot trash because Sony Pictures.
Ah, right. I get that Sony then owns the right, but it's it just poor IP handling to not consult with the guys that actually know the franchise? Are we really still at that point where publishers are this frivolous with their rights? What harm can it do to have ND in the loop??
Going by what the writer said he shown the script to Henning and Nolan North and they liked it, but they aren't part of ND. Thus why he said he wasn't sure if ND got access to the script and if they liked it or not.
Druckmann seems unnecessarily aggressive, but that's just my impression of a single twitter.
I truly hope that the film is good.
Druckmann seems unnecessarily aggressive, but that's just my impression of a single twitter.
I truly hope that the film is good.
Back-In-Black
Banned
He never said that.
RecRoulette
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I mean they did the same thing before 4 and that game turned out okay for the most part.
VeryGooster
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yeah, but, it's gonna have so much cursing in it, man
Stormblessed
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Limited or no respect shown to the source or its creator is fairly standard for Hollywood. No reason why an exception would be made for Uncharted.
It's strongly implied in the text of the article you linked, it's in the portion you posted:
It's strongly implied in the text of the article you linked, it's in the portion you posted:
I might be reading a little too much in this sentence then:
"Im very happy with the script, and listen it was important that I got Amy Hennigs approval, her and Nolan North, "
The way I first interpreted it is that the script is complete and that he got the approval of both before showing it as a final version.
LinkSlayer64
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Neko Atsume is going to be the second good video game adaptation (The first was the first Mortal Kombat.)
Can't blame him I would do everything to distance myself from any Sony Pictures project as well.
Very telling of the state of video game movies when Mortal Kombat is still the best one.
HP_Wuvcraft
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He doesn't know anything about it.
That is different from Naughty Dog disowning it.
Thread title should be changed.
This movie is gonna be trash, straight to VHS, aint it?
I feel Neil and co should have a say in the way its made. SIE shouldnt let their movie arm make a shit product. I feel that will damage the IP is some ways. Shit can the project and invest that money on its gaming division.
I feel Neil and co should have a say in the way its made. SIE shouldnt let their movie arm make a shit product. I feel that will damage the IP is some ways. Shit can the project and invest that money on its gaming division.
Real_Madrid
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Sony Pictures sure are shit, but there are a lot of rumours around that studio.
The biggest ones are Sony selling the damn thing (they just wrote off a billion dollars...) or that Sony Pictures will be placed under the Sony Interactive Entertainment division (so that Andrew House will get an even bigger paycheck).
Making a good Uncharted movie seems impossible, it will take a 100+ million investment for a franchise that's not even that well known. The actors need to be top notch, the set pieces need to be huge and overall it would just seem like an Indiana Jones clone.
I would only trust the movie when ND is heavily involved. That's maybe happening when Sony Pictures falls under Andrew House and they just start it over from scratch.
Uncharted is such a personal favourite of mine, it would really really sting if Sony Pictures fucked it up and makes the franchise dead for anything other than gaming.
The biggest ones are Sony selling the damn thing (they just wrote off a billion dollars...) or that Sony Pictures will be placed under the Sony Interactive Entertainment division (so that Andrew House will get an even bigger paycheck).
Making a good Uncharted movie seems impossible, it will take a 100+ million investment for a franchise that's not even that well known. The actors need to be top notch, the set pieces need to be huge and overall it would just seem like an Indiana Jones clone.
I would only trust the movie when ND is heavily involved. That's maybe happening when Sony Pictures falls under Andrew House and they just start it over from scratch.
Uncharted is such a personal favourite of mine, it would really really sting if Sony Pictures fucked it up and makes the franchise dead for anything other than gaming.