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Sony has put up a rare insight into the motion capture process for PlayStation Vita title Uncharted: Golden Abyss by showing Nolan North (Drake), Richard McGonagle (Sully), Christine Lakin (Marisa), and Jason Spisak (Dante) acting out scenes from the game. John Garvin, Creative Director at Sony Bend, first shared some of his thoughts about the process of bringing Golden Abyss‘ plot to life:

I’m no stranger to writing, having written all the Syphon Filter games, but this title taught me some new tricks. By the time we started shooting in February 2011, I had gone through over 40 revisions, changing everything from setting, characters, names, dialogue and action. If we count all the in-game VO dialogue, we ended up with over 400 pages of script for Uncharted: Golden Abyss.

Of course, writing and performance capture was just beginning. What followed was an intense year of motion capture clean-up, animation, camera work, set building, lip-synching, prop building, editing, sound and music, by a team of over 50 artists working across five different studios. Warning: The second video contains spoilers.

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We reported not so long ago that an Uncharted film was being made based on the massively popular series developed by Naughty Dog. When I first read the news, I was really excited and thought that Uncharted could be the film to break the barrier of the whole, movies about games are crap, conundrum.

Well no longer. It’s been announced that Mark Wahlberg will be playing the part of Nathan Drake with the possibility of Robert De Niro playing his father and Joe Pesci as his uncle…..are you friggin’ kidding me?!

The film will be directed by David O. Russell who has already directed Wahlberg in Three Kings, which wasn’t a bad film, I Heart Huckabees and the soon to be released The Fighter. From all the names mentioned behind the film, it sounds like an April Fool’s Joke. Don’t get me wrong, De Niro and Pesci are accomplished actors but they just don’t seem to fit in the Uncharted mould. It just seems wrong to me.

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