In July 2016, Sony hired Joe Carnahan to script the film adaptation of Naughty Dog’s video game series, Uncharted & In Jan 2017, he finished his draft & the filming is expected to kick off in late spring of 2017.

And now Joe Carnahan sat down with CS for an exclusive interview to answer some of the questions about the film and how Uncharted script is R-rated.

He starts off with his approach with the script, “When I wrote Uncharted, I didn’t spare the rod. I wrote it the way the video game is.

They swear in the game, they’re kinda foul-mouthed and I kept all that stuff intact and I definitely didn’t write it as a ‘PG-13’ movie, I wrote it the way that movie should be written.”

Carnahan goes on talk about how he managed to distance Uncharted from the Indiana Jones: “I’m a huge Indiana Jones fan, which was one of my interests in it and you have to remember you’ve got Sully as well, so it’s more of a buddy situation than just Drake solo.

You have this kind of Hope & Crosby, ‘Road to Morocco’ kind of thing, so it’s not a straight Indy lift. Drake is not a guy who likes museums. He thinks they’re all crooked.

Curators are ‘thieves,’ the guys in the Louvre and The Met are thieves and despicable. He’s a treasure hunter, not an archaeologist. He doesn’t have Indiana Jones’ idea of pure faith in archaeology.

That’s not the way he thinks. It differentiates, and in the script there are deliberate differentiations. He has a line where he says, “They’re gonna be looking at real booby traps, not rolling boulder bullsh*t.” (laughs) [Raiders of the Lost Ark] is still arguably my favorite movie of all-time, but it was necessary to create those distinctions.

I think Amy Hennig did it when she wrote the game. She made Drake very much an anti-Indiana Jones, you know? Don’t forget, for that first game after that pirate attack, Drake and Sully leave Elena behind, they dump her.

Indiana Jones would never do something like that. That’s a rogue act, so she was declaring very early on who that guy was. He was not Jones, he was not to be confused with that guy.”

Carnahan reveals that the movie will feature intense action sequences inspired from the game:

“I probably wrote four of the biggest, f***in’ craziest action sequences I think I’ve ever written in that movie.

I used the Uncharted games as a template but not using any one specifically, because those sequences have already been done beautifully.

There’s no point in just transposing them to film, you’ve gotta come up with new sh*t, so that’s what I did. It was a great challenge but it was a lot of fun.”

Uncharted will be produced by Avi Arad under Atlas Entertainment Production banner with Charles Roven, and Alex Gartner.

The filming is set to begin in Colombia in late spring of 2017.