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.
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