Voice actor Nolan North is in the limelight after his no-barred discussion panel at Metrocon 2015 this past week, where he revealed bits about The Last of Us 2 and Uncharted 4. In the same panel, North also touched on the much troubled Uncharted movie, and shared his hopes for a more meatier cameo in the film.

At around the 12:30 minute mark in the Metrocon panel video, North gets questioned about the Uncharted movie, to which he replies, “I don’t know when they are going to get to it. That movie has been on ice for almost ten years. And they kept switching writers…apparently they have a good script. A couple of [scripts] before them – which I wasn’t supposed to read but somebody got me to read them – and they weren’t anything like [Uncharted]. I mean there were versions of that script that wasn’t Uncharted. It was basically like a heist movie and they said we will just ride the Uncharted name.”

“I think it’s hard [to make an Uncharted movie] because with the technology we have, we have already made four movies. But I think they are going to be true to the first game,” he added.

As for Mark Wahlberg reportedly taking on the role of Nathan Drake, North said he hoped someone younger would be cast for the role. “Mark Wahlberg is about my age, so it’s like ‘eh’. I don’t know how many sequels you are going to get. Are you not planning for sequels? That means you are not planning it very good that means the script is kinda weak. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

On Amy Hennig

Nolan North also touched on original Uncharted writer Amy Hennig’s involvement with the movie script, which apparently was only restricted to as a ‘non-paid consultant’.

“They hired [Amy Hennig] as a “consultant”, a non-paid consultant. She is a better writer than that but she doesn’t have that Hollywood name. It’s the reason I can never play Nathan Drake. Because you put Mark Wahlberg in a movie, they have numbers on how many tickets he will sell in Europe. That’s what they do, they get their numbers for overseas, they know they are getting their investment back overseas. So now, everything domestic is all profit. It’s all money, it’s all it is. And I have talked with executives and they were like ‘we know you can do it’, but you know…”

He also later revealed that Hennig is currently working on an Uncharted-esque Star Wars game for EA.

On His Cameo in the Uncharted Movie

It seems like Nolan North does indeed have a cameo in the Uncharted movie, although he hopes for a more meaningful appearance rather being relegated to a simple ‘nod to the fans’.

“You know, I have been approached a while ago to do that. And the one thing I told them was I don’t want to be the ‘where’s Waldo guy’,” he said. “And I don’t want to walk up to him [Mark Wahlberg] and be like ‘your coffee Mr. Drake’. I just don’t want to be a nod…it could be a nod to the fans but I could be one of Drake’s buddies. Maybe the movie has something where he is sitting with some fans and maybe I am one of his pals. Or like the bartender – just give me a scene. I don’t want it to just be like ‘HAI’.”

“I mean I don’t need to be in a movie because ‘Oh I want to be in a movie!’ I have been in movies, I have done that. And here’s the thing, maybe that week I could be doing something else that could push my career forward. You are always looking for the next thing. It’s the hard thing about this career. It’s so much fun but it’s never enough. You could be on the greatest job and you would be like ‘alright, what’s next when this ends?’ Because you are always trying to find your next job while you have one.”