The latest Spider-Man, Tom Holland will play Nathan Drake in the long-gestating Uncharted movie.

According to Deadline , the movie will be set around the sequence in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception in which a young Nathan first meets his mentor, Sullivan , placing it as a prequel to the video game series.The casting decision was reportedly made after Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman was impressed by Holland in the latest cut of the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming.While Stranger Things director Shawn Levy is still aboard, Sony will apparently now begin the search for a new scriptwriter, who'll begin work on creating a Young Drake storyline (which presumably means that Joe Carnahan's "monstrously cool" completed script has been dropped).It's been a long road to finding Nathan Drake. Originally announced in 2009 , the film has gone through multiple directors, writers and actors (including the seemingly solid Mark Wahlberg, but who subsequently dropped out ).With a director and a lead in place, this is as stable as the project's been for some time - now it just needs a script and a gap in Holland's increasingly busy schedule

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