Jak & Daxter Adaptation In the Works from Uncharted Film Director
Ruben Fleischer has already directed one film — Uncharted — based on a Naughty Dog video game. And it appears as though he is also adapting yet another Naughty Dog game into another medium as the director revealed that he is working on a adaptation.
When speaking to Digital Trends, Fleischer plainly stated that he was working on something related to the series. He didn’t specify if it was a film or television series or if it would animated or live action.
“I’m actually working on, a version of that, for PlayStation, which I think would be really cool to bring to life,” he said.
This comes just after the and star Tom Holland told GameSpot that he would like to make a live-action movie and play Jak if he were given a blank check. He jokingly suggested that he would want A24 to make it so it would be “really weird and, like, dark.” It’s unclear if this is a coincidence or if his comments are connected to Fleischer’s project.
has been dormant for a long time. Naughty Dog’s ended the trilogy in 2004, but then released a racing spin-off called in 2005. Ready at Dawn then developed the PSP spin-off,, which followed the ottsel in the time before Jak wakes up in the beginning of .
Naughty Dog also tried two other times to make a game. started at Naughty Dog, but, after multiple troubles with the PlayStation 3 hardware, the project was handed off to High Impact Games. The team finished the game to little fanfare. The second attempt came after Naughty Dog shipped and split into two teams. While one team made, the other explored the idea of a game, but scrapped it in favor of after realizing that they weren’t doing it out of passion. There is no game in development at Naughty Dog according to President of Naughty Dog Evan Wells, but
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