FILM · 2022
Uncharted
36 archived facts 5 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
The actor who voiced and provided motion capture for Nathan Drake in the video games lies on a beach as a hotel guest when the Tom Holland version of the character approaches him. When he confronts Holland about his appearance, Holland says he fell out of a car that fell out of a plane. North tells him something similar happened to him once. This is a light nod to his performance in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, on which the film's cargo plane scene is based.
- #002
The film is Sony's first feature-length production from PlayStation Productions.
- #003
Tom Holland did his own stunt work for the scene in which he leaps onto a hanging lighting rig and hangs in mid-air. However, his stunt double takes over in the fall.
- #004
Rueben Fleischer added the final title sequence scene, which establishes that Nathan's brother is still alive, because the character is alive in the games and would play a bigger role if they greenlit a sequel. The other end-credits scene was a reshoot, and he likes it ending on an exciting note.
- #005
Tom Holland was cast as Nathan Drake after Sony turned down his Young James Bond film pitch.
- #006
Tom Holland describes the plane scene as the hardest action scene he has ever done.
- #007
The film was banned in Vietnam and the Philippines for featuring a map with the nine-dash line, a disputed maritime feature, under a 2016 court ruling on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
- #008
The post-credits scene contains a number of references to the video games that do not appear in the rest of the film, such as Nathan's red-sleeved T-shirt, the golden gun from the first game, and Sully's moustache and signature pistol.
- #009
The film follows the games' traditional plot structure, starting with Nathan Drake in imminent danger, along with the theme of finding the treasure first but never getting it (all), apart from a few medallions.
- #010
When Nathan opens the bag he took from the orphanage, the Naughty Dog logo is briefly visible on the flap.
- #011
Tom Holland revealed that during the production of Spider-Man Homecoming (2017) he played Uncharted 4: A Thief's End with his friends and even refused to come to set until he had completed the car chase scene in Chapter 11: Hidden In Plain Sight.
- #012
David O. Russell signed on to write and direct in 2010, with Mark Wahlberg, who had recently worked with him on The Fighter (2010), set to play Nathan Drake. Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci were expected to play Drake's father and uncle respectively. Russell eventually dropped out in favour of Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and Wahlberg later took on the role of Sully instead.
- #013
Hidden reference: when Nathan arrives at the bartending job, the neon sign on the wall reads "Kitty got Wet," a phrase Nathan Drake uses in the video game series when dispatching an enemy.
- #014
The scene in which Nathan and Chloe are trapped in a small room slowly filling with water was shot by building a set and slowly submerging it in a pool of water. It is better for safety and for multiple takes.
- #015
When Nate puts on the gun holsters he took from a fallen thug, the main theme of the Uncharted video game series plays in the music.
- #016
A few days after finishing filming, Tom Holland began shooting Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).
- #017
(At 1 hour 29 minutes) There is a brief reshoot insert while Nathan and Sully talk on the ship's hull. The rest of the scene was shot on location, but this part was shot in front of a green screen. Mark Wahlberg had gained weight for another film, so for about 25 seconds of the shoot he was actually 25 lb or more heavier than in the rest of the scene/film.
- #018
In the film, Nate's brother Sam gives him the necklace with Sir Francis Drake's ring before leaving to avoid being arrested after breaking into a museum. In the video game, the 15-year-old Nate steals the ring for himself from the Sir Francis Drake exhibit in Cartagena, Colombia.
- #019
Gage mentioned his employer: a man briefly known as "Roman." "Roman" is a clear reference to Gabriel Roman, one of the villains in the first game, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007), whose plot involves a treasure map once controlled by the Nazis and in which, as noted above, Drake's ring and the legacy it represents play a much larger role.
- #020
Uncharted was the first Naughty Dog video game to be treated as a film. HBO later made a TV adaptation of another Naughty Dog game, The Last of Us (2013), which had also originally begun as a film adaptation, with Sam Raimi producing.
- #021
The film drew inspiration from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (2016), Tom Holland's favorite video game in the series.
- #022
In the second post-credits scene, Nate hands over his necklace containing Sir Francis Drake's ring to a mercenary working for an unknown character named Roman. The scene is directly inspired by the opening chapter of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, in which Nate and Sully sell the ring to Talbot before stealing it back. The clothes Nate and Sully wear in this scene and its location are taken from Chapter 3 of the same game: the chapter in which Nate and Sully first meet.
- #023
The young actors who played Nathan and his brother Sam as children were actually the same height, so camera angles, apple boxes and more had to be used to make Sam appear taller than Nate.
- #024
At the end of the film, one of the gold nuggets in Drake's possession resembles the Precursor Orb from the Jak & Daxter games, another series developed by Naughty Dog, and it appears as an item in every Uncharted game.
- #025
Tom Holland serves as an executive producer on a film for the first time.
- #026
At the film's climax, Sully sacrifices the bag of gold to save Nate. Believing he will leave empty-handed, Nate reveals that he hid some of the gold in his pocket and gives it to Sully. This is an ending similar to the first video game, only with the roles reversed: in the game, Nate apologizes to Sully for leaving empty-handed, only for Sully to reveal a chest full of gold he had acquired and brought along.
- #027
In an interview with IGN, Mark Wahlberg stated that he had signed on for only one film.
- #028
In real history, Magellan's expedition was largely financed by King Charles I of Spain. Its main goal was to find a western route to the Moluccas (the Spice Islands). The trade was highly profitable for Europeans, but an agreement with Portugal gave them a monopoly on the eastern route. It was determined that the Pacific was much wider than expected and that the route was therefore not economically viable at the time. The minimum ocean distance between South America and Asia is in fact the longest distance between two neighboring continents.
- #029
Naughty Dog approached Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg several times to write the script. They declined, saying it would just be another Indiana Jones film.
- #030
Santiago's car is a 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL.
- #031
Several scenes were shot at Babelsberg Studio in Germany. It is the world's oldest large-scale film studio and has been used in the making of films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009).
- #032
Director Rueben Fleischer kept the jeweled crosses/keys on a shelf at his home.
- #033
Tati Gabrielle's character is based on Nadine Ross, one of the antagonists of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End. Tati's character Braddock and Nadine are highly trained mercenaries hired by a wealthy treasure hunter to help recover the lost gold.
- #034
We never learn the ring's true history or Nate's lineage on his neck. However, director Rueben Fleischer said it is something he is excited to explore in sequels.
- #035
The first scene in which Nathan uses the lighter to reveal a hidden message was done with lemon juice, as children have done for decades.
- #036
Mark Wahlberg compared the film to Indiana Jones and The Thomas Crown Affair, which blend elements of heist and adventure films.
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