Dan Trachtenberg to Direct Uncharted

Dan Trachtenberg is set to direct Sony Pictures’ adaptation of Uncharted. Variety has confirmed that the 10 Cloverfield Lane director will helm the film, which is a prequel to the video game series and stars Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Far From Home).

The long-in-development film will take its inspiration from the sequence in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception that sees a young Nathan Drake first encounter Victor Sullivan, which set up the events of the game franchise. The studio will bring on a new writer to script the film, which Shawn Levy was set to direct but dropped out of.

Based on Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, the story follows a descendant of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is escalated when creatures — actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis — begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.