While we’re still getting our heads around the idea that David O. Russell has signed on to direct a video game adaptation, that blow may be softened with the right cast. And perhaps it’ll start with Nathan Fillion.
The cult fave actor who is long overdue for a mainstream breakout (instead of settling into material way beneath him like the TV series “Castle”) hit Twitter yesterday to urge his fans to campaign for him to get the lead role in “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.” Fillion told his followers: “If ever there was a Twitter campaign, let this be it. Rise, ye Browncoats. Rise, ye Castillions. RISE!”
The game focuses on Nathan Drake, a descendant of Sir Francis Drake and a treasure hunter, as he searches for the lost treasure of El Dorado, with the help of a journalist. And yeah, we could totally see Fillion easily playing the part. The film has a first draft script written by “Conan” scribes Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, but Russell will rewrite (thank god) before directing the film.
No word yet on when this will get in front of cameras but with Russell preparing to shoot “Old St. Louis” with Vince Vaughn next spring, this one is probably still a long way off.
Fuck YEAH! Cap'n Mal needs a comback!
NO! i don't want!
After those two responses, let me just say, eh, yeah, sure, whatever.
He even looks like the cover of the video game. AND his name is Nathan. Is there even another choice?
Hell Yeah!!!
Nathan Fillion wouldn't even need to prepare for the role. Just give him the costume and roll the damn film. I'll go see it in the theater twice.
We want Nathan Fillion to be cast as Nathan Drake! Yes! NATHAN FILLION is the BEST choice to play Nathan Drake! He's got action hero written all over him, with the biceps to prove it. He's extremely handsome, bright, clever, sexy, hot, young and devilishly funny. And he wants this role as much as we want it for him!
It's his turn to be the next powerful leading man on the big screen. We Browncoats and Castillions are determined to get him up where he belongs, and keep him there. He has single-handedly transformed the term "geek" into "sexgod." He's an up-and-coming A-list movie star with muscle and heat and he's a-comin' to take over feature films! I feel it! Grab him while you can for the Uncharted franchise. Because he'll also make the best Indiana Jones when they re-boot those movies!!
In his campaign to be Nathan Drake, we Browncoats and Castillions rise up and firmly support our Captain Nathan Fillion!