No sooner had Sony announced that it was retooling its big-screen adaptation of the hit video game “Uncharted” to be an origin story starring “Spider-Man: Homecoming” lead Tom Holland than the internet lit up with confusion and disappointment.
Let’s just say the baby-faced 20-year-old British actor is not who many fans imagined would play the grizzled treasure hunter with the perpetual five 0’clock shadow.
“You guys, we’re getting Uncharted Rugrats!!!!!” wrote one internet wag.
While another complained, “Tom Holland’s Nathan Drake in an Uncharted movie? They already made that. It was called The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. #NotMyNathan”
Shawn Levy is directing the long-in-development adaptation, which was inspired by a sequence in the third version of the famous video game in which
Sony has yet to find a writer for the screenplay, which will be retooled as a prequel. Producers include Charles Roven, Avi Arad, Alex Gartner and Ari Arad.
The first game in the series, a third-person shooter action-adventure was released in 2007.
Read more of the online sniping here.
https://twitter.com/SageTerrence/status/866681830732439552
https://twitter.com/OG_MDB/status/866688540016508930
Tom Hardy as Nathan Drake could've been so perfect. pic.twitter.com/Kvum9wMZSi
— James 🏴🇮🇳 (@Its_Mistah_J) May 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/nikkiswangos/status/866680499712004097
Nathan Drake was dead and replaced by a non-look-alike: a conspiracy thread pic.twitter.com/loJ8qDjRCa
— marta ⁷ ⟭⟬ (@taeuphxria) May 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/FreddyInSpace/status/866690564149915648
Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake to be starred in a movie prequel to the 'Uncharted' video game series…Hmm nah 😂
— Ali (@Ali_Givenchy) May 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/EpicVoiceGuy/status/866703646091857923
After the recent Nathan Drake news, this is an exclusive screenshot from the Halo movie. pic.twitter.com/Y0BE4qUiax
— Gábor Tóth 🇪🇺 (@dreampagex) May 22, 2017
Wall-climbing, rope-swinging, wise-cracking Spider-Man actor Tom Holland as wall-climbing, rope-swinging, wise-cracking Nathan Drake?
— Dom Dove (@domdove) May 22, 2017
Really, a young nathan drake?
— Felix Wood #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 (@felixw1) May 22, 2017
Really, a young nathan drake?
— Felix Wood #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 (@felixw1) May 22, 2017