Uncharted's casting announcements are controversial among many fans due to the age discrepancies between movie and game interpretations. Uncharted's recently released trailer has shed light on the scope of the film, as well as its narrative and visual comparisons to the Uncharted franchise.
Uncharted 3 was influential for its portrayal of a teenaged Nathan Drake who encounters Victor Sullivan for the first time in the streets of Cartagena, Colombia. With Tom Holland's young Nathan Drake as the focus of the film, it appears as though the film will only be following the events of the game to the extent that Nate meets Sully. So while the film takes featured narrative points from Uncharted 3, it is also subsuming other key sequences and characters from Uncharted 3 into its own live-action canon.
Safari Geek shared a video that compares edited footage and screen captures from both the Uncharted film trailer and Uncharted 3. As depicted in Safari Geek's video, the film employs the game's iconography, repeating Uncharted 3's defining spectacle with Nate tumbling and hurtling out from a plane's open cargo ramp along with shipment crates that are strapped together with yellow tie-down nets. Nate then maneuvers back upward along the containers and netting while also dispatching foes.
It is unclear from the trailer, however, whether or not the plane is compromised and crashing like it is in the game, or if releasing the cargo was simply a means to expel enemies who were on board. Tom Holland is also seen wearing shoulder holsters over top a cream-colored henley shirt, repeating Nathan Drake's iconic aesthetic from the third installment. Because the games are so beloved, Uncharted fans are sure to acknowledge if any other visual comparisons are made to other games in the franchise as well throughout the movie.
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Safari Geek's video compares Nate and Sully's formal-wear appearances to their suit-and-tie attire from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, though those comparisons are likely not intended to be direct references to the fourth installment in particular. Not noted in Safari Geek's video is the inclusion of Chloe Frazer, whose actress, Sophia Taylor Ali, is within Tom Holland's same age demographic. This further confirms that certain events and plots are consciously being drawn from the source material and inserted into the movie's canon.
Regardless, Safari Geek's video demonstrates that the live-action adaptation may be provide a fresh take on Uncharted's characters while maintaining some of the games' most exciting and memorable moments.