Uncharted Pitch Meeting | Screen Rant
Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Uncharted
Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series makes its triumphant return and centers on Uncharted and its money-hungry development and convenient story. The action-adventure movie serves as a prequel to Naughty Dog and Sony's video game franchise of the same name centered around fortune hunter Nathan Drake and his mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan and their various globe-trotting adventures. Uncharted centers on the origin of Drake as he is taken under Sully's wing to help search for the treasure of the Magellan expedition before corrupt billionaire Santiago Moncada and his mercenary Jo Braddock get their hands on it.
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg lead the cast of Uncharted as Drake and Sully alongside Antonio Banderas as Moncada, Sophia Ali as fellow fortune hunter Chloe Frazer and Tati Gabrielle as Braddock. After spending a decade in development hell, the film adaptation has finally swung to theaters with Venom director Ruben Fleischer at the helm to a strong box office start, grossing over $145.7 million in its opening weekend. However, unlike Holland's fellow Sony franchise Spider-Man, Uncharted has received a very mixed response from critics.
As the film is enjoying its box office earnings, Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series has returned with a new episode focused on Uncharted. The video explores the film's various issues including its miscast leads, product placement, convenient storytelling and unoriginal format. Check out the funny new episode below:
Since Tom Holland was first announced to be taking on the role of Nathan Drake for Uncharted, fans and general audiences alike have been largely divided on the casting decision, believing it to be the studio riding the highs of his Spider-Man success moreso than casting the more desired Nathan Fillion or originally cast Mark Wahlberg. Having officially hit theaters in February, Uncharted has seen a mixed-to-negative response from critics with Holland's performance being a key element highlighted for both praise and criticism for the star's charisma and being miscast. The Uncharted Pitch Meeting episode feels like an appropriate highlight of this issue, amongst its other major problems.
Despite the mixed reception to the film, Sony has been proven largely right thus far with Holland's casting as Uncharted is already proving to be a box office success, having grossed over $147.5 million within its first week of release and setting the record for the highest video game movie opening since Sonic the Hedgehog. In the wake of the success, Sony have declared it to be a new franchise for the studio, a point made likely with the film's ending and post-credits teasing future stories to be told. Those who haven't seen the long-gestating adaptation can catch Uncharted in theaters now.
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