Last week, we brought you a tid-bit from an interview with Uncharted 3 video game director Justin Richmond, who said that despite his own confirmation, Mark Wahlberg had not been cast in the role of Nathan Drake in the forthcoming David O. Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter) big-screen adaptation of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for Columbia Pictures.

Now, Moviehole got a chance to ask Wahlberg himself about it, and the actor confirmed that he is still on board and the film is moving forward.

Wahlberg said,

“David O’Russell is writing right now and hopes to direct, it’s myself, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro”.

He also stated that they are,

“hopefully going to shoot it in the Summer time”.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is slated to hit theaters in 2012.