Full disclosure, I've only played Uncharted 4 but really enjoyed it. 1. You're doing what a lot of fans of other media do when approaching a movie or a TV show. You're getting worked up in advance, and making yourself unhappy. 2. Mediums matter. In adapting a book into a movie, or a game into a movie, or a movie into a book...things change. For the simple reason that you can't do thngs in a 3 hours movie that people have to consume in a single sitting, that you can get away with in a video game that people play for 50 hours and repeatedly put down and come back to. So going in there and demanding that the movie be just like the game, is not reasonable....and is just settign yourself up for disappointment. Because that approach would make for a WORSE movie than what the actual final product is liable to be. 3. Movies are a business. It may have cost Sony $30 or $40 million to make that movie (or even more). They are NOT going to risk losing that money by giving the lead to someone who is unproven talent. I like Nathan Fillion, but he is a MINOR actor with no track record of being able to carry a film of this size. IIRC the only experience he has was playing his character in the movie version of Firefly...like 15 years ago. Nolan North is a voice actor. Playing the lead in a major motion picture is NOT his thing, and he has no experience (that I'm aware of) doing it. No one is going to risk that. Tom Holland on the other hand, is MONEY. He has shown time and again that he has the talent, chops, charisma, and work ethic to carry the lead on major action films. He has the ability to create characters that audiences root for, and feel strongly about. The chemistry between his Peter Parker and Robert Downey, Jr's Tony Stark was one of the major draws of the Phase 1 Marvel Movies....and the sense of loss Tony Stark felt as the son-he-never-knew-he-wanted died in his arms after the snap was palpable. That's what Tom Holland brings to this....and I think he was a good choice for the role. Because the Nathan Drake that I got to experience in Uncharted 4 as a similar character. Basically a hero, though his methods are a bit suspect. Tom Holland has shown that he can bring that pervasive sense of DECENCY and charm to a character. Lastly, Sony worked with Disney and Marvel with the MCU, and If they were paying attention then they learned how important casting these characters are to the success of the movies. They are not decisions to be made lightly, or carelessly. Iron Man was so successful out of the blocks because Robert Downey IS Tony Stark. Both he and Tony are these charming, talented, likeable....but DEEPLY FLAWED and self-destructive....people. So much so that this was my reaction when I heard of their casting choice. I said to myself, "Hell he won't even have to act. He'll just need to show up on set and be himself." Heroes represent certain character traits BLOW UP to superhuman scale...and you have to choose an actor who actually HAS those traits...otherwise they can't pull it off. Ben Affleck is a decent actor, but he exudes such a sense of ORDINARINESS that he has done a TERRIBLE job whenever he's played a superhero. First Daredevil....then Batman. Whereas Christian Bale exudes "just" enough sense of darkness and barely restrained CRAZY that made for a pretty compelling Batman.

They played a trailer for it during Jack-blam!- Forever. I feel like I saw the entire movie in that 2 minute trailer and don’t need to watch it anymore.

I have a problem with the casting. Tom Holland needs to stick to Spider-Man, guy has to age another 20 years before he can play the “old and grizzled” guy.

Meh, it's a cash grab. It'll be ok, maybe even reaching the levels of somewhat good. The elephant in the room is the casting, which, imo isn't terrible, vut it's not ideal either. I think Holland would be great as a young Nathan, if he acted more as a paranoid orphan than a geeky high schooler. However, Nathan Fillion plays near-perfect irl representation of Drake, so casting anybody besides Fillion is going to look like awful decision-making. I think it's obvious that the producers don't care about the source material; Sully's missing his iconic mustaxhe and cigar for no reason, they're ripping scenes straight out of the games but out of context, the trailer soundtrack is some sort of hip beat or whatever instead of the pumping, orchestral tunes in the games. The whole thing reeks of corporate bullshit, and i give it a year before people forget it ever existed.

Honestly although I've only played parts of the games Nathan Fillion sold me with his film that he could play the character. It just seems like Tom Holland was picked because he's one of the current big names rather than he can play the part.

[i]I'm almost certain that I'm going to hate it. A large part of this is because the Uncharted games are already the pinnacle of cinematic gaming. If you are a massive fan of the franchise, then you already have a strong idea of what these characters are supposed to look like, sound like, and how they are supposed behave. Everytime I see a trailer for the film, my subconscious starts screaming at me that that's not 'Natan Drake' or 'Victor Sullivan'. I'm not saying that Holland or Whalberg are going to do a bad job, it's just that as an Uncharted fan, they'll never ever look or sound like their in game characters. Then there's the story, which by looks of the trailer, has elements from all of 4 Uncharted games. I remember watching the most recent Tomb Raider movie in the cinema, and being dissapointed. Not because the story was bad, but because I'd already seen everthing already, in the Tomb Raider games. There were no surprises there. Even worse, they took 2 15 hour games, and tried to cram all that narrative into a 2hr movie, and I felt short changed, since the games best story beats happened away from the big set pieces. And I'm afraid that the Uncharted movie is following a similar blueprint. Having said all that. I don't think Sony is making this Uncharted movie for fans of the games. I think their main goal is to reach new audiences. So maybe those people will appreciate movie for what it is, instead of comparing -blam!- to what it isn't.[/i]

-blam!- THAT MOVIE, -blam!- TOM HOLLAND. I’m actively pissed they would cast such a geek to play Nathan Gawtdam Drake, and from what I’ve seen from trailers, it looks like a bizarre mashup of the games. If you’re going to make a off a game, at least make a good original story.