00:00And then like Tom Holland, I was like, wait a second, what do you mean Tom Holland?
00:05What?
00:11Literally no one on the planet knows more about the developments of this screenplay than you.
00:16On CinemaBlend, we've been writing Mark Wahlberg uncharted stories for about a decade.
00:20So I'm just curious.
00:21I apologize. You know what? I should have kept my mouth shut until we were actually
00:24into physical production.
00:25That's okay. Listen, we need content, so we'll take it.
00:28What were some of the changes?
00:29I just don't like to count my chickens before they hatch.
00:32I hate that.
00:32I'm never one of those guys who say, oh, I'm doing this, I'm doing that.
00:35But it just always felt so real, you know, whether it was with David Russell in the beginning
00:39or whoever else we were kind of, you know, got close to the starting line, but never
00:44got out of the gate.
00:45Right.
00:45It was one of those things where you just feel like you sound like a broken record, you know?
00:49Can you remember a project that you stayed that closely to or attached to for that amount of time?
00:54No, because this now is well north of a decade.
00:58But with The Fighter, it's oddly enough, all the movies that I wanted to make that I have
01:02gotten made, usually it's like the six year rule.
01:06So Fighter took six years to make.
01:08A Father Stew took six years to make.
01:11Peter Berg was developing Lone Survivor for, I think, almost about that amount of time.
01:16Right.
01:16So but this one, yeah, it was so funny because it was actually just like one of those things
01:22where I just chalked up to not going to happen.
01:23Same thing with Six Billion Dollar Man, actually.
01:25Right.
01:26So it was just kind of like one of those things where I just thought it wasn't going to happen.
01:28Then I got the phone call and they were like, all right, we're going to make Uncharted.
01:31I'm like, cool.
01:32Who's the guy?
01:32You know, before it was De Niro, maybe, you know, Jack or whoever.
01:36Right.
01:36And they were like, Tom Holland.
01:37I was like, wait a second.
01:39What do you mean Tom Holland?
01:40That's me being generous.
01:41Wow.
01:42And they were like, well, Tom Holland.
01:43I'm like, for what?
01:45He was like, for Nate.
01:46I said, well, who am I going to be?
01:48And now, you know, we're strapped on the mustache and here we are.
01:52What is that thing on your face?
01:54Puberty's right around the corner, kid.
01:55You can grow your own.
01:57I'm really telling everybody they have to see this in IMAX because the third act action
02:00set pieces are fantastic.
02:02It's pretty cool.
02:02What was a harder one to film?
02:03Is it the plane sequence from this movie or the finale of Homecoming?
02:08The plane sequence from this movie is the hardest thing I've ever done.
02:13Just months of hard work hanging off of these boxes, being pushed and thrown and dragged by
02:19wires and smashed into boxes and falling off of boxes, losing your grip.
02:25All of us tore our hands up because, you know, you're hanging onto these kind of ropes and,
02:30you know, it gets to a point where you just can't hang on anymore.
02:32But you're trying to, you're trying to, and you let go and you cut your hands up.
02:35So we had bangs and bruises and tears all over the place.
02:39It was it was tough.
02:40It's definitely relieving to hear that for sure.
02:43For them?
02:45Yeah.
02:45No, it's definitely yes.
02:47Hard physical stuff.
02:49Took some balls, took some hits.
02:52How many days does it take to put a sequence like that together?
02:54The airplane sequence?
02:55I think it took two weeks to film that.
02:58I could be lying, though.
02:59But it felt like two weeks at least.
03:09Tom, tell me about the first time you tried on the shoulder holster
03:11for the scene that's such an important part for Nathan.
03:14It was actually really exciting.
03:16Gary Dawson, who was our props master, who is a very good friend of mine.
03:19I've worked with him on numerous occasions.
03:22He gave me the holster.
03:24I tried it on and there was something about putting it on which like completed the look.
03:29It kind of just brought the character to life in a really, really visual way.
03:34So it was it was really awesome.
03:35It's pretty cool, huh?
03:37Pirate ships are one of the most inspired set pieces I've seen in a really long time.
03:42And I'm assuming it's a lot of CGI, but they also look really, really practical, too.
03:46What were those days on set like?
03:47Well, they actually built a couple of ships.
03:49So we had the ships.
03:50We had the ship suspended in air, you know, or a portion of the ship.
03:55It was pretty cool.
03:56You know, I mean, for me, it's like it's a real movie, like an Indiana Jones type of movie.
04:01It's not like a small Indiana Jones movie.
04:03It's like a real movie.
04:04An Indiana Jones type of movie.
04:05It's not like a small, intimate story.
04:07This is like big, huge Hollywood blockbuster, action adventure, fantasy, all that stuff,
04:14you know, which I just think is just a different level and height of cinema.
04:18I got to ask you about the line, nuns.
04:21Why has it always got to be nuns?
04:22Is it an Indiana Jones nod?
04:24It is absolutely an Indiana Jones nod, yes.
04:27Snakes.
04:28Why did it have to be snakes?
04:30I think for us, you know, we realized that those films are so incredible and so unique
04:35that we wanted to pay respects to them and we wanted to lean into that genre.
04:40And what better way to do it than to reference it in the film?
04:45You have no idea who you partnered with.
04:48Zoe, hurry!
04:51It's going to take a little longer than I thought, kid.
04:54I love that Uncharted could end up becoming the film
04:58that's a gateway for young girls who watch these characters on screen
05:02and they think, you know, that could be me.
05:05And sometimes, you know, they don't see great representation in action movies.
05:09And so I want to know, who was your action role model when you were growing up?
05:12Who did you look at and think, oh, I want to do that?
05:15My two action role models, the first was actually Zoe Saldana in Columbiana.
05:20And that was the first time that I had seen,
05:23especially like a woman of color, seen like a just super like, you know,
05:27dope girl do her thing.
05:29Charlie's Angels.
05:31Really?
05:31Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz.
05:34Yep. And I was so young when it came out.
05:37Too young to watch it, but I did anyway.
05:39The second was Angelina Jolie in like Salt and Wanted and things like that.
05:45Yeah, that made me like, I want to do that one day.
05:47And Tomb Raider, one of the better video game adaptations
05:50before you guys knocked it out of the park.
05:53Yeah.
05:53All right, I need to know about your relationship
05:56with your unique weapon, with your knife.
06:00Did it take a lot of training?
06:01Is it something that you held onto all the time on set to get better with it?
06:04What was that working relationship like?
06:07So I didn't get a lot of like the, I guess,
06:09one-on-one training with the Cranbit itself.
06:11Most of how I learned it was through like my own research, watching YouTube videos.
06:16And then, yeah, they gave me a fake one, a rubber one that,
06:20yeah, I had that thing all the time.
06:22At home, I would just like flip it around,
06:23just try to get as comfortable with it as I could
06:26to make it look like it was something that, you know, was Braddock's weapon of choice.
06:30Yeah, it's a unique skill set that you now bring with you
06:33to whatever film you do next.
06:39I love the Nolan North cameo, of course.
06:41And I'm just wondering if there's anything that he was able to give you
06:44from his own experience that you incorporated into your own portrayal?
06:48I think for me, he gave me enough from what he did with the games.
06:52I was a big fan of the games.
06:53A damn one.
06:54And I went back and played them again in preparation for making the film.
06:58And I just was able to...
07:00I didn't want to copy what he did.
07:03Ruben and Chuck and Alex, our producers,
07:05they didn't want me to mimic him in any way,
07:08which I'm really glad because otherwise I wouldn't have been acting.
07:12I would have been mimicking.
07:13So I was able to sort of take the essence of the character
07:16and some of the lines, you know, I say,
07:18oh, crap, all the time.
07:19And we have the well, well, well joke,
07:21which is something that he has been known to say.
07:23So there's a few things I took here and there,
07:25but mostly I kind of reinvented the character.
07:31What are some of the things that creatives need to pay attention to
07:34when they're adapting a video game over the screen?
07:37Well, I think we learned with Max Payne,
07:40there just wasn't, I don't know,
07:41it wasn't as big, a broad and interesting a story
07:44and world for people to want to see,
07:47you know, it's kind of dark brooding guy,
07:50you know, similar to like the Punisher.
07:52And this movie, it's just, it's for everybody.
07:55You don't have to know the video game to really go and enjoy this film.
07:59There's so much wish fulfillment in there.
08:00It really is for entire family.
08:02And obviously we wanted to first and foremost,
08:04do justice to the game and the diehard gamers
08:08who made it so successful.
08:09But then we also wanted to make sure we introduced
08:11a whole new audience to Uncharted.
08:14I've been dreaming about this my whole life.
08:17John's gold, the biggest treasure that's never been found.
08:21What's happening?
08:23They're starting to come through and I can't stop them.
08:28Over My Shoulder is my new favorite movie of all time.
08:31My friend, it's a masterpiece.
08:33I have to ask about a scene, it's my favorite scene in it.
08:35That's when you're saying goodbye to the other two Peters
08:37and then you go in for the hug.
08:39Is that scripted or improvised?
08:43I don't remember.
08:45I don't remember.
08:46Okay.
08:47Every, so much of this film was improvised, you know,
08:50based off of great writing.
08:51But, you know, we all were allowed to bring our own spin to it.
08:55So it wouldn't surprise me if it was something that was improvised,
08:58but it definitely was something at the time that felt so right.
09:01We had a very similar moment in real life only a couple of weeks before.
09:07So maybe some people saw that on set and were like,
09:10we need them to recreate that, but just on camera.
09:13So, so yeah, so maybe it came from that.
09:15Paul, I'm your co-stars playing the most popular superhero on the planet.
09:20Somehow you have managed to avoid outside of Blue Falcon,
09:23which I loved, you know, getting into the superhero genre.
09:26Is this just a lack of opportunities or something you wanted to avoid?
09:29No, I think I, I, first of all,
09:32I'm not brave enough to walk out of my trailer with a cape and spandex.
09:37But I did want to, and I've been trying to make Six Billion Dollar Man
09:41for quite some time, which I thought was a great balance
09:44of all this kind of wish fulfillment and these abilities to do amazing things,
09:49but still being very grounded and real and doing it with normal clothes on.
09:54And this is happening?
09:56Well, I mean, right now it's not happening,
09:59but we're eager to get it made if we can.
10:01I mean, we were kind of close, I would say, within the last year.
10:06And then the studio was like, oh, we're going to press pause for now.
10:09So we'll see.
10:10I mean, I would never close that door completely.
10:13I still have Lee Majors calling me, asking me what's going on and what's happening.
10:17And I wish I had better news for him.
10:18But it's just one of those things where, you know,
10:20unless I finance it myself, right now it's probably not going to happen.
10:25But this is a blast.
10:27And I really appreciate your time as always, Mark.
10:30Oh, thank you.
10:30Appreciate you.
10:32Hey, you still with me?
10:34Barry Lee!
10:39Yeah!
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