Uncharted’s first movie trailer is full of very familiar action

After more than a decade of development (and seven directors), it looks like Sony’s Uncharted The movie is finally, really, really coming out – and it has the trailer to prove it.

Starring Tom Holland as a mismatched young version of fortune hunter / adventurer / generally human punching bag Nathan Drake, Uncharted is set long before the popular video game series, and turns the clock back before Drake was an experienced Indiana Jones knockoff for the start of his career.

It’s a little hard to shake how young Holland looks here compared to his more messy video game counterpart, along with what appears to be an identical American accent to his Spider-Man voice in the Marvel movies. But Sony will have plenty of time to convince fans to come on board in the coming months.

Despite being a prequel, fans of the games will notice that much of the action in the film looks very familiar: the big plane set piece looks torn straight out Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, e.g.

The film also features other notables Uncharted characters, though they have been made virtually unidentifiable here: Mark Wahlberg plays a beardless Sully (Nathan’s father figure / partner), while Sophia Taylor Ali is a young Chloe Frazer who apparently knows Sully in this version of the franchise.

To put a perspective on how long the film has been under development, Wahlberg was originally to play Drake himself in 2010, over a decade ago, when work began on the adaptation.

Uncharted is not the only major Naughty Dog video game adaptation in the works; the studio is also working with HBO on a TV show version of The last of us, set to play Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie.

Uncharted will finally hit theaters on February 18, 2022.