The first trai💮ler for the new Uncharted film just d൲ropped, and boy does it look like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Uncharted. It looks exactly like Uncharted, almost as if the movie is built upon a series of set pieces taken from the various Uncharted games and stitched together. Drake falls out of a plane (twice!), runs across rooftops, gets info at a fancy shindig, pointedly says “crap”, and hides behind chest high barriers. It’s so Uncharted that I’m surprised anyone who wants an Uncharted movie is unhappy with it. But there seems to be one sticking point - Tom Holland. Everyone is convinced that Nathan Fillion would havꦇe been a better choice. They are wrong.
Let’s dig into the movie itself first. To my mind, there are two reasonable reactions to this movie; a) this looks cool!, or b) 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ꦦwe don’t need an Uncharted movie𒈔. And it does look cool. There are thrills, spills, chills, and probably quite a few big bills. You don’t get to say this looks bad if you went to see the latest Fast & Furious flick. That it’s unnecessary is a fair argument - the games are some of the most high-octane, set piece-stuffed, cinematic experiences on console, and are already playable movies. I can understand the argument that we don’t need to see the same thing again.
What I can&rsq🍨uo;t understand is that this🎀 version is somehow ‘wrong’. It looks and feels exactly like Uncharted, except a little younger. When you say Tom Holland is wrong for the role of Drake, you mean he doesn’t look like him. That’s all you can mean - Drake has no personality of his own. What are Drake’s hopes? His fears? His greatest wish? His deepest insecurity? His favourite food? The answers are ‘finding treasure, not finding treasure, to find more treasure, to not find enough treasure, and treasure flavoured treasure’. You cannot be wrong for a character who himself has no inherent character traits.
Drake isn&rs🐷quo;t even an Ever⛎yman, he’s just some dude that collects treasure. He’s not so much an empty vessel for you to project your identity onto, he’s just an empty vessel. No projection is required.
As a general rule, I hate fancasts. They’re often the most uninspired, typical choices based entirely on looks. Nathan Fillion fits th𒊎is as Drake. Yes, he looks more like Drake than Tom Holland, and yes, he was Drake in a fan film a few years ago, but that’s such a bland reason for casting him. The ages don’t add up either; Drake is 31 in the first game, while Fillion is currently 50. Holland is 25, making him much closer to Drake’s age.
I get that Holland doesn’t really look like Drake in the games, nor does Mark Wahlberg look like Sully. But if you want to see people who look just like the characters in🐷 a movie, play the game. It’s basically a movie anyway.
Fillion is decent in the fan film, but it’s 14 minut𝓀es long and almost entirely stuffed with zingers and action. There’s no real narrative. What roles of Fillion’s might you point to as evidence he’d be a good Drake? Drake’s not all that similar to Mal in Firefly, and we’ve already run out of earnest roles Fillion did well ❀in.
You’re telling me Castle and a fan film is enough preparation for him to play - to hear the internet tell it - one of gaming’s most iconic roles? For the last ten years he’s been a meme of a man, starring as himself in a teenager’s fantasy in Big Mouth, as TDK in The Suicide Squad, a weird, one-scene alien in Guardians of the Galaꩲxy🐻, and a bunch of direct-to-DVD voice roles. Oh, and The Rookie, a TV show you all definitely watch. This man is your hero?
Holland, meanwhile, has the blockbuster experience of Spider-Man and grittier turns in the likes of The Devil All The Time and Cherry; both of which he was praised for despite the🃏 films themselves not quite landing.
Nathan Fillion is a monumentally boring pick. You’ve seen him as Drake before, he brin💝gs nothing new to the role, he’s ‘the wrong age’ far more than Holland is, and his career has become a knowing self parody. I think the film will be fine and Holland will be fine. I’m not a huge cheerleader. But wanting Fillion because you’ve seen him before is the exact reason every medium is desperately rehashing former glories through remasters and remakes and re-releases. I’m sick of things I’ve seen befo💝re, and I’ve seen Fillion’s Drake before. Let’s have something new.