Uncharted Movie Loses Yet Another Director As Shawn Levy Leaves

‘Uncharted’ Movie Loses Yet Another Director As Shawn Levy Leaves

By Ben Pearson/Dec. 20, 2018 5:48 am EST

Yes, Sony will need yet another Uncharted director. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Levy is stepping away from the Uncharted film and will instead direct a movie called Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds, Lil Rel, and Jodie Comer, which just received a green light. You can read more about that project here. In the meantime, Sony is on the hunt for a new filmmaker to bring Uncharted across the finish line.

Levy, who’s also directed several episodes of Stranger Things, is the latest filmmaker to leave Uncharted high and dry. David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, Three Kings) was attached back in 2010 with Mark Wahlberg playing a more traditional version of Nathan Drake, and that iteration was courting Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to play supporting roles. A few months later, Limitless director Neil Burger had replaced Russell in the director’s chair. That lasted until 2014, when Burger exited and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong, Horrible Bosses) signed on. He left the next year, and Levy came on board in 2016.

Will this movie ever get made? The games are popular and successful enough that it seems unlikely that Sony will abandon the concept (they already own the intellectual property rights, since the games were developed for their PlayStation platform). But at this point, the film might be as cursed as the gold of El Dorado in the game.