The value of fan service in Nathan Fillion’s Uncharted short film.


The internet broke this July when a video popped up showcasing Firefly actor Nathan Fillion alongside other notable Hollywood stars playing as characters in the renowned Playstation 4 game Uncharted. 

That Fillion actually agreed to doing a fan-made Uncharted short movie was something out of left field, yet one that just might change how the entertainment industry looks at video game adaptations.  After all, everyone into the game knows that its lead character Nathan Drake was, in every way, modeled after Fillion.  Also, a full-length movie adaptation of Uncharted is currently in the works which would star Tom Holland instead. 

Fans everywhere are elated by the short film directed by Allan Ungar as, though short, it came across as authentic, complete with the signature moves, antics, and humor of the Nathan Drake we’ve grown to love in the console game series.  There’s even a sequence about three-quarters into the film that truly captures how Drake behaves in-game during a fight scene, the aspect ratio narrowing, the camera following our hero and zooming in as he shoots down enemies. 

Many are already claiming this unauthorized Uncharted film as the best video game adaptation they’ve seen, and crucial to this is the devotion the cast, director, and production team painstakingly lent to getting things right.  That it puts the premium on fan service might even revolutionize how mainstream movie adaptations work.  No one’s sure yet if this is indeed a pitch to Hollywood, but we’d rather have Nathan playing Nathan any day.

Hello, there.  My name’s MikeGiuffrida a student based in Los Angeles.  I’m hoping to break into the entertainment industry soon.  For related posts, please check out my blog.

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