00:00 And then like Tom Holland, I was like, wait a second.
00:02 What do you mean, Tom Holland?
00:03 What?
00:06 Literally no one on the planet knows more about the developments of this screenplay than you.
00:16 On CinemaBlend, we've been writing Mark Wahlberg uncharted stories for about a decade.
00:20 So I'm just curious.
00:21 I apologize.
00:21 You know what?
00:22 I should have kept my mouth shut until we were actually into physical production.
00:25 That's OK.
00:26 Listen, we need content, so we'll take it.
00:28 What were some of the changes?
00:29 I just don't like to count my chickens before they hatch.
00:32 I hate that.
00:32 I'm never one of those guys who say, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing that.
00:35 But it just always felt so real, you know, whether it was with David Russell in the beginning
00:39 or whoever else we were kind of, you know, got close to the starting line but never got out
00:44 of the gate.
00:45 Right.
00:45 It was one of those things where you just feel like you sound like a broken record, you know?
00:49 Can you remember a project that you stayed that closely to or attached to for that amount of time?
00:54 No, because this now is well north of a decade.
00:58 But with The Fighter, it's oddly enough, all the movies that I wanted to make that I have
01:02 gotten made, usually it's like the six year rule.
01:06 So Fighter took six years to make.
01:07 A Father Stew took six years to make.
01:11 Peter Berg was developing Lone Survivor for, I think, almost about that amount of time.
01:16 Right.
01:16 So but this one, yeah, it was so funny because it was actually just like one of those things
01:22 where I just chalked up to not going to happen.
01:23 Same thing with Six Billion Dollar Man, actually.
01:25 Right.
01:26 So it was just kind of like one of those things where I just thought it wasn't going to happen.
01:28 Then I got the phone call and they were like, all right, we're going to make Uncharted.
01:31 I'm like, cool.
01:32 Who's the guy, you know, before it was De Niro, maybe, you know, Jack or whoever.
01:36 Right.
01:36 And they were like, Tom Holland.
01:37 I was like, wait a second, what do you mean Tom Holland?
01:40 That's me being generous.
01:41 Wow.
01:41 And they were like, well, Tom Holland.
01:43 I'm like, for what?
01:44 He's like, for Nate.
01:46 I said, well, who am I going to be?
01:47 And now, you know, we strapped on the mustache and here we are.
01:52 What is that thing on your face?
01:53 Puberty's right around the corner, kid.
01:55 You can grow your own.
01:57 I'm really telling everybody they have to see this in IMAX because the third act action
02:00 set pieces are fantastic.
02:01 It's pretty cool.
02:02 What was a harder one to film?
02:03 Is it the plane sequence from this movie or the finale of Homecoming?
02:08 The plane sequence from this movie is the hardest thing I've ever done.
02:11 Just months of hard work hanging off of these boxes, being pushed and thrown and dragged by
02:19 wires and smashed into boxes and falling off of boxes, losing your grip.
02:24 All of us tore our hands up because, you know, you're hanging on to these kind of ropes and,
02:30 you know, it gets to a point where you just can't hang on anymore.
02:32 But you're trying to, you're trying to, and you let go and you cut your hands up.
02:35 So we had bangs and bruises and tears all over the place.
02:39 It was it was tough.
02:40 It's definitely relieving to hear that for sure.
02:43 For him?
02:44 Yeah.
02:45 No, it's definitely yes.
02:46 Hard physical stuff.
02:49 Took some falls, took some hits.
02:51 How many days does it take to put a sequence like that together?
02:54 The airplane sequence?
02:55 I think it took two weeks to film that.
02:58 I could be lying, though, but it felt like two weeks at least.
03:00 Oh my God!
03:02 Nate, come on!
03:06 Ready and action.
03:08 Tom, tell me about the first time you tried on the shoulder holster
03:11 for the scene that's such an important part for Nathan.
03:14 It was actually really exciting.
03:16 Gary Dawson, who was our props master, who is a very good friend of mine,
03:19 I've worked with him on numerous occasions,
03:22 he gave me the holster, I tried it on,
03:25 and there was something about putting it on which like completed the look.
03:29 It kind of just brought the character to life in a really, really visual way.
03:33 So it was it was really awesome.
03:35 It's pretty cool, huh?
03:42 Pirate ships are one of the most inspired set pieces I've seen in a really long time.
03:46 And I'm assuming it's a lot of CGI, but they also look really, really practical too.
03:50 What were those days on set like?
03:52 Well, they actually built a couple of ships.
03:54 So we had the ships, we had the ship suspended in air, you know,
03:57 or a portion of the ship.
03:58 It was pretty cool, you know?
04:00 I mean, for me, it's like it's a real movie, like an Indiana Jones type of movie.
04:05 It's not like a small intimate story.
04:07 This is like big, huge Hollywood blockbuster, action adventure, fantasy, all that stuff,
04:14 you know, which I just think is just a different level and height of cinema.
04:18 I gotta ask you about the line, "Nuns, why has it always got to be nuns?"
04:22 Is that an Indiana Jones nod?
04:24 It is absolutely an Indiana Jones nod, yes.
04:26 Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?
04:30 I think for us, you know, we realized that those films are so incredible and so unique
04:35 that we wanted to pay respects to them and we wanted to lean into that genre.
04:40 And what better way to do it than to reference it in the film?
04:43 You have no idea who you're partnered with.
04:46 Zoe, hurry!
04:49 It's gonna take a little longer than I thought, kid.
04:53 I love that Uncharted could end up becoming the film that's a gateway for young girls
05:00 who watch these characters on screen and they think, you know, that could be me.
05:05 And sometimes, you know, they don't see great representation in action movies.
05:09 And so I want to know who was your action role model when you were growing up?
05:12 Who did you look at and think, "Oh, I want to do that"?
05:14 My two action role models, the first was actually Zoe Saldana in Columbiana.
05:20 That was the first time that I had seen, especially like a woman of color,
05:24 seen like a just super, like, you know, dope girl do her thing.
05:29 Charlie's Angels.
05:30 Really?
05:31 Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz.
05:34 Yep.
05:35 And I was so young when it came out.
05:37 Too young to watch it, but I did anyway.
05:39 Second was Angelina Jolie in like Salt and Wanted and things like that.
05:44 Yeah, that made me like, "I want to do that one day."
05:47 And Tomb Raider, one of the better video game adaptations
05:50 before you guys knocked it out of the park.
05:52 Yeah.
05:53 All right, I need to know about your relationship with your unique weapon, with your knife.
05:59 Did it take a lot of training?
06:01 Is it something that you held onto all the time on set to get better with it?
06:04 What was that working relationship like?
06:06 So I didn't get a lot of like, I guess, one-on-one training with the cram bit itself.
06:11 Most of how I learned it was through like my own research, watching YouTube videos.
06:16 And then, yeah, they gave me a fake one, a rubber one that, yeah, I had that thing all the time.
06:22 Like at home, I would just like flip it around, just try to get as comfortable with it as I could
06:26 to make it look like it was something that, you know, was Braddock's weapon of choice.
06:30 Yeah, it's a unique skill set that you now bring with you to
06:33 whatever film you do next.
06:35 Right.
06:35 I love the Nolan North cameo, of course.
06:41 And I'm just wondering if there's anything that he was able to give you
06:44 from his own experience that you incorporated into your own portrayal?
06:47 I think for me, he gave me enough from what he did with the games.
06:51 You know, I was a big fan of the games.
06:53 I dabble.
06:54 And I went back and played them again in preparation for making the film.
06:57 And I just was able to, I didn't want to copy what he did.
07:02 If it like Ruben and Chuck and Alex, our producers, they didn't want me to mimic him in any way,
07:07 which I'm really glad because otherwise I wouldn't have been acting.
07:12 I would have been mimicking.
07:13 So I was able to sort of take the essence of the character and some of the lines, you know,
07:17 I say, oh, crap all the time.
07:19 And we have the well, well, well joke, which is something that he has been known to say.
07:23 So there's a few things I took here and there, but mostly I kind of reinvented the character.
07:31 What are some of the things that creatives need to pay attention to when they're adapting
07:35 a video game over the screen?
07:36 Well, I think we learned with Max Payne, there just wasn't, I don't know, it wasn't as big,
07:42 a broad and interesting a story and world for people to want to see, you know, it's kind of
07:49 dark brooding guy, you know, similar to like the Punisher.
07:52 And this movie, it's just, it's for everybody.
07:55 You don't have to know the video game to really go and enjoy this film.
07:59 There's so much wish fulfillment in there.
08:00 It really is for entire family.
08:02 And obviously we wanted to first and foremost do justice to the game and the diehard gamers
08:08 who made it so successful.
08:09 But then we also wanted to make sure we introduced a whole new audience to Uncharted.
08:12 I've been dreaming about this my whole life.
08:15 And the giant's gold, it's the biggest treasure that's never been found.
08:20 What's happening?
08:23 They're starting to come through and I can't stop them.
08:28 Over My Shoulder is my new favorite movie of all time, my friend.
08:31 It's a masterpiece.
08:33 I have to ask about a scene, it's my favorite scene in it.
08:35 That's when you're saying goodbye to the other two Peters and then you go in for the hug.
08:39 Is that scripted or improvised?
08:40 I don't remember.
08:44 I don't remember.
08:47 Okay.
08:48 Every, so much of this film was improvised, you know, based off of great writing, but,
08:53 you know, we all were allowed to bring our own spin to it.
08:56 So it wouldn't surprise me if it was something that was improvised,
08:58 but it definitely was something at the time that felt so right.
09:01 We had a very similar moment in real life only a couple weeks before.
09:07 So maybe some people saw that on set and were like,
09:11 we need them to recreate that, but just on camera.
09:14 So, so yeah, so maybe it came from that.
09:16 I'm your co-stars playing the most popular superhero on the planet.
09:20 Somehow you have managed to avoid outside of Blue Falcon, which I love.
09:26 Uh, you know, getting into the superhero genre,
09:28 is it's just a lack of opportunities or something you wanted to avoid?
09:31 No, I think I, I, first of all, I'm not brave enough to walk out of my trailer with a cape and
09:36 spandex, uh, but I did want to, and I had been trying to make $6 billion man for quite some time,
09:44 which I thought was a great balance of all this kind of wish fulfillment and these abilities
09:48 to do amazing things, but still being very grounded and real, uh, and,
09:53 and doing it with normal clothes on.
09:55 And this is happening?
09:57 Well, I mean, right now it's not happening, but we're, we're eager to get it made if we can.
10:02 I mean, we were kind of close, I would say, uh, within the last year.
10:07 And then the studio was like, oh, we're going to press pause for now.
10:10 So we'll see.
10:10 I mean, we, I would, I would never close that door completely.
10:14 Um, I still have Lee majors calling me, asking me what's going on and what's happening.
10:17 And I wish I had better news for him, but it's just one of those things where,
10:21 you know, unless I finance it myself, um, but right now it's probably not going to happen, but.
10:25 I know this is, this is a blast and, uh, I really appreciate your time as always, Mark.
10:30 Thank you.
10:30 Oh, thank you.
10:31 Appreciate you.
10:31 Hey, you still with me?
10:33 Barely.
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