American journalist, screenwriter and film producer, Mark Boal has been brought on board to work on the film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s video game series, Uncharted.

THR reports, David Guggenheim wrote the “recent version of Uncharted that got the studio excited and brought it to the finish line.” Boal is apparently a fan of the video game franchise, he boards the project to do a three-week production polish.

Mark Boal Boards Uncharted Movie 1

Boal is popular for his work on The Hurt Locker (2009), for which he won both the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Academy Award for Best Picture.

In 2012, he wrote and produced Zero Dark Thirty (2012), that earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture and a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Based on the action-adventure video game 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.”

The movie is produced by Avi Arad, directed by Seth Gordon. The project is yet to find an actor to take on the role of series protagonist Nathan Drake. Mark Wahlberg & Chris Pratt passed on the offer.

Uncharted is scheduled to be released on June 10, 2016.

 

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