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Neil Burger going for 'Uncharted'
By Adnan Tezer Jul 8, 2011, 19:12 GMT
Neil Burger is in talks to write and direct "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune" for Sony.
According to Variety, Avi Arad, Ari Arad, Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing the film based on the bestselling PlayStation 3 video game.
David O. Russell had been attached to write and direct the film but left the project due to creative differences.
Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer wrote the first draft of the screenplay.
The story follows a descendent 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 hunt, then is amplified several degrees more when mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure's true secrets.
The game, from Sony Computer Entertainment, sold 1 million copies in the first 10 weeks of its release at the end of 2007.
A sequel, "Among Thieves," was released in 2009.
A third game, "Drake's Deception," will be released in November.
Burger recently directed Relativity's hit thriller "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper.
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