If you were hoping that Uncharted was going to be the first great video game film, Tom Holland has made us think otherwise.
For the last few years now, PlayStation has been on an absolute mission. Its goal: transform the company’s biggest video game franchises into Hollywood blockbusters.
As a result, we have a new Twisted Metal TV show on the way, as well as a collaboration with HBO for an adaption of The Last of Us.
More imminently though, we have the Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. The film is being positioned as a blend of Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones, with charm and explosions aplenty.
But while fans of the high-selling action game series have been quietly hoping the film would mark the first great video game adaption in history, Tom Holland isn’t so sure. In fact, a recent interview with GQ has sent out turd detector into overdrive.
Here’s the quote:
“As soon as you start worrying about ‘Do I look good in this shot?’ acting becomes something other than playing a character. I think there are elements of my performance in Uncharted where I kind of fell under that spell of being ‘I want to look good now. I want this to be my cool moment’. …
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“Look, I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know if I succeeded in that. But it was an important lesson learned, because, at times, it was less about land a mark and go through this scene and more about land a mark, stand like this and see my bulging biceps… It was a mistake and is something that I will probably never do again.”
Ouch. You can only imagine Holland’s PR handlers took that one well.
To be completely honest, nobody was expecting Uncharted to be good. Especially considering the project has been active since 2008.
Yes, this film has been in development so long that Mark Wahlberg went from being woefully miscast as the film’s lead to now playing Holland’s older, moustachioed sidekick. That said, the proof will be in the pudding when the film finally hits our shores in February, 2022.
For the meantime, we’re just crossing our fingers for the ridiculously brutal Mortal Kombat.
