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Sony announced Monday that [Tom Holland](http://time.com/4771404/tom-holland-umbrella-dance/), who will star in Sony’s upcoming [_Spider-Man: Homecoming_](http://time.com/4714904/spider-man-homecoming-trailer-tom-holland-michael-keaton-vulture/), will also play a young Nathan Drake in an _Uncharted_ movie based on the wildly popular Naughty Dog video game series. Both Spidey and Drake have a talent for scaling walls, so in that sense Holland is an obvious choice. But in the video games, Drake — a treasure hunter in the vein of [Lara Croft](http://time.com/4126978/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-review/) or [Indiana Jones](http://time.com/4259611/indiana-jones-harrison-ford-steven-spielberg/) — is significantly older than the 20-year-old actor. Holland’s casting means the _Uncharted_ movie will be rewritten as a prequel to the PS4 series, a major diversion from Sony’s original plan. Here’s what you need to know. ### An _Uncharted_ movie has been in the works for awhile Sony announced it was making an _Uncharted_ film way back in 2009 (even before the game’s [well-reviewed](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379%5F1944169%5F1944191,00.html) sequels came out). Since then, the project has gone through a number of different scripts, directors ([including David O. Russell](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/uncharted-why-david-o-russell-201391)) and actors ([including Mark Wahlberg](http://collider.com/uncharted-movie-mark-wahlberg/)). The most recent script was written for an adult Drake character, but Sony scrapped that idea after chief Tom Rothman saw footage from _Spider-Man: Homecoming_, [according to Deadline](http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-holland-uncharted-nathan-drake-movie-spider-man-homecoming-shawn-levy-1202099530/). He was so impressed with Holland he decided to rethink the _Uncharted_ project and build a second franchise around the young actor. **MORE** [Review: _Uncharted 4_ Is the Beguiling Series’ Absolute Best](http://time.com/4313491/uncharted-4-review/) ### Sony will reconfigure the movie as a prequel Throughout the years, [fans have questioned](https://gameraven.com/editorials/need-uncharted-film) why the highly cinematic video game series [needs a motion picture](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2017/01/09/should-we-get-excited-for-the-uncharted-movie/#339dd0125ddd). An adaption of the games might feel repetitive: Watching Drake explore the same lost cities as a passive audience member rather than participating in his discoveries as a player could strip the series of much of its wonder. But making a prequel film may resolve some of those issues. ### Drake already has a backstory **_Minor spoilers for the four_** **Uncharted** **_video games ahead_** The _Uncharted_ video games slowly reveal information about Nate Drake’s background. As an orphan, he claimed the name in homage to the explorer Sir Francis Drake, whom he sometimes claims as an ancestor. In flashbacks, the player learns that Drake’s mother was an historian (hence his knowledge of hidden cities). Drake fell into treasure hunting at a young age, partly as a way to uncover clues to his own past. In _Uncharted 3_, players learn in several flashbacks that a 14-year-old Drake met a rogue named Victor Sullivan (Sully) while robbing a museum. Sully took him under his wing and plays a major role in all four video games as a mentor to the adult Drake. ### The movie will center on flashbacks from _Uncharted 3_ The first Sully-Drake interaction from the game will be the basis for the film. Holland does have a striking resemblance to the teenage Nate. A walkthrough of a part of _Uncharted_ _3_ below teases the dynamic between young Drake and Sully and also hints at why Sony may have been so eager to cast the Spidey actor in such an acrobatic role. Movies about a teenage Drake could still leave the door open for films about the explorer when he’s older. ## Transcript Hello, Matt Peckham here, game critic with Time Magazine, and today I am playing a game called Uncharted For Thief's End, by Studio Naughty Dog. It's the fourth and final installment in their acclaimed uncharted series of action adventures, starring Nathan Drake, who is a kind of swash buckling treasure hunter. So at the beginning of the game, and some mild spoilers here, you've hung up your shoulder holsters, you're living the domestic life when out of nowhere your brother Sam Drake shows up. And you thought Sam was dead for over a decade. He's never been in the series, he's a new edition. And Sam says, you have to come with me Nate. This pirate treasure that we were looking for when we were kids, I know where it is. So this is a jungle level that takes place about halfway through the game and the reason I'm showing it is because it really highlights the new stealth mechanics in the game. And it's not so much that Nate's mechanics have changed. He still jumps on people and hangs off the edges of cliffs and Can yank them off, and can choke them out. He could do that before, but the levels are much, much more open now. And they also have all of these different stealth pathways through them. So, you have this undergrowth that he can crouch in, this very beautiful undergrowth. And so it changes the whole dynamic in that in the earlier games you pretty much had to shoot your way through most of the game. Here you can go through a substantial portion of the game without firing a single shot. And then besides the new stealth stuff you also have some new tools. One of them was in the video just a little bit before called the pitton, it's like a spike that you can drive into a cliff wall and use it to climb up or arrest your descent if you're sliding down. And speaking of sliding, there's an entirely new maneuver you have to pull off in certain levels where they'll be gravel, or really muddy slopes, and you'll jump on and have to slide between platforms, and then do that in combination with other maneuvers. And then one of the most interesting and satisfying new tools is the grappling hook, which you can deploy to sort of change up a situation and move around the environment very quickly. Like here, for instance, you see the grappling hook icon. You hit the L1 trigger, and then you can quickly swing over. You can land on top of an enemy, duck behind cover. And then engage in, a gun battle from a completely different vantage. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] [ MUSIC ] Another thing Naughty Dog managed to do with Uncharted 4, And they've done this with all the Uncharted games in that they are all beautiful to look at. But, in Uncharted Forest's case it's different. There's an order of magnitude shift here. They've managed to create not only a unique and beautiful environment but one that looks like nothing that you've seen on any system before. And so, in a scene like this you'll notice the way the light is reflecting off the Vines on those distant ruins and then also off of the undergrowth ring you'll see the clouds moving in front of the sun and blocking it, you'll see low- lying mist diffusing the light, and so I can't remember who it was that said light is sort of the final frontier for achieving plausible realism in virtual worlds You really feel that here in a way that you've never felt it, or at least that I've never felt it in a game before. So, not to obsess about graphics because that is an old way about thinking about games, I think, and it doesn't really account for whether the game's actually interesting or fun to play. But I do think that there is something happening here. Whereby these are more than merely game experiences now. It's kind of like traveling abroad or going somewhere you've never been before. There's more going on in terms of your experience of that environment than merely the mechanical things that you're doing in it. That aside, Unchartered Four is unquestionably the best playing of the Uncharted games. And I mean from the superlative gun play and artificial intelligence to the even more than ever fantastic exploration and puzzle sequences. Critics of the earlier Uncharted games have argued that the exploration sequences are too automated in these games. That there's not enough risk. That you're merely pushing a joystick and watching someone automatically execute difficult manuevers. I think that's a misunderstanding of how the Uncharted games work. The [ UNKNOWN ] games are not Tomb Raider, they're not Super Mario Brothers, they're not pixel perfect platformers, they're not about mastering light physics. They're about walking into complicated situations and scrutinizing the environment, and then figuring out how you're going to move through it, enjoying the vertigo- inducing thrill ride as you do. And then right in the middle of that ride You'll have to stop and solve another puzzle, and figure out another way to move through the environment. And in Uncharted 4, that's just multiplied. And so with all the expansive new environments, the smarter puzzles and nonlinear puzzle solving, [ NOISE ] the exponential improvements to combat, and all the collectible treasures, even more shrewdly hidden. I'm going to argue that this is definitely the Uncharted to play even for the naysayers that have worried that the earlier games were too much on rails, and that's a quick look at Uncharted 4. 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