Seems like a director and writer has been chosen...

David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter) has been set to write and direct Columbia Pictures’ Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, an action-adventure based upon the bestselling PlayStation 3 game, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The film will be produced by Avi Arad, Charles Roven, Ari Arad, and Alex Gartner.

The story follows the adventures of treasure hunter Nathan Drake.

Commenting on the announcement, Tolmach said, “David is a tremendous choice to take on this film. He’s equally adept at combining all the classic elements involved in this property: great character development, strong comedy, and amazing action sequences. He has a brilliant vision for this material and we know he will bring his original, unique voice to this adaptation.”

The game, developed by the acclaimed team at Naughty Dog, was one of Sony Computer Entertainment’s best-selling and most critically acclaimed games for the PS3. Named IGN’s Best Action Game and Best PS3 Game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune sold one million copies in the first 10 weeks of its release at the end of 2007 on its way to moving more than 2.6 (confirm) million copies and spawning a sequel. That sequel, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, was a major commercial and critical success, winning Game of the Year honors from several influential critics, being named the most critically acclaimed game of the year by Metacritic, and selling more than 3.8 million copies worldwide. Both games are among the all-time best-selling games for the platform.

The project will be overseen at Columbia Pictures by Tolmach and Jonathan Kadin.

What do you think?  Good choice and could be very interesting if you ask me.  I love this genre of movies but felt recent movies (including Crystall Skulls) had failed to deliver fully.  Could Uncharted be on track to become the first good film based on a game?  Clearly, I'm of the view we haven't had one yet, although Resident Evil has proved popular.

All they need to do is copy the script for the first game and it should be fine in my opinion.

I didn't play the first game. But I played Among Thieves. If the first games story is as engrossing as its sequel, they should do what Ajescent said and copy the script.

as long as they get it like Indiana Jones it will be a smash, because the game is heavly inspired on indiana jones and basically its like a really well done sequal to those movies.

It will be a smash hit if its stays true to the game story.

But the game is around 8 hours long what scenes should be in the Movie?? it cant go more than 3 hours 

I'm sure Russel will write his own script in terms of actual dialogue, and on past form he should be able to add plenty of richness to what's already there.

I'm more curius as to whether they will take the first game as the start point, with the whole Drake linked to Sir Francis Drake and make it as an origin film or will they try and come up with a completely new story?

Thoughts on casting?  Nathan Fillon (spelling?) always struck me as a potentially good choice, and of course they could consider Nolan North himself as his voice is so linked to the charcter (for gamers anyway).

NATHAN FILLION.  Nathan Fillion MUST be casted.  Watch Firefly, He IS Drake.  Would be an amazing choice.

QFT

Yah, that's the guy I'm thinking off.  I saw him in the spinoff movie.  Just struck me that his basic style and look seemed exactly the way Nathan Drake's character is constructed.

Even better in the actual series, one of the best sci fi series ever btw.  He acts just like him, I watched it for the first time and played the first Uncharted a bit after, and I quickly made the connection. 

Wait until they cast Shia LeBeouff as Nathan Drake.  You won't be so happy then.