The hit video game, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has been headed for a big screen adaptation for quite some time. Columbia Pictures had originally brought on Kyle Ward to write the script, but it looks like his deal fell apart at the last minute, because Sony didn’t want to wait around for a draft while Ward was tied down and contractually obligated to deliver drafts for his other commitments, like “Hitman 2.”

“Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune” is a high priority project for Sony and producer Avi Arad and if everything falls into place, the writing team Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer (writers of the upcoming “CONAN” reboot), will take over for Kyle Ward. Apparently, negotiations with the writing duo are underway and it looks as though the Uncharted movie will be back on the road to the big screen.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune follows a descendant of explorer Sir Francis Drake, a treasure hunter named Nate Drake who believes he has learned the whereabouts of El Dorado, the fabled South American golden city, from a cursed golden statue. The search becomes competitive when a rival hunter joins the fray, then is ratcheted up several notches when creatures actually mutated descendants of Spaniards and Nazis begin attacking those hoping to learn the treasure’s true secrets.