EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment is negotiating with Seth Gordon to direct Uncharted, the live action adaptation of the top selling PlayStation vidgame series Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. This brings the Horrible Bosses and Identity Thief helmer back to his origins, where he helmed the celebrated documentary King of King and immersed himself in video game culture.

The most recent script of Uncharted is by Safe House scribe David Guggenheim, and the studio was hot enough on that draft that they set him to write Bad Boys 3. The project has had several prominent filmmakers involved over the years, most recently David O Russell, before he left to helm the Roven-produced American Hustle, a Best Picture Oscar contender. Next step is to find a protagonist to play Nathan Drake, the treasure and antiquities hunter and descendant of the famed explorer Sir Francis Drake. With a female journalist and his mentor by his side, Drake attempts to find the lost treasure of El Dorado. It is a big scale adventure film.

The film is an Arad/Atlas Entertainment Production, produced by Charles Roven, Avi Arad, Alex Gartner, and Ari Arad. The game was developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC. The intention of the producers and the studio is to get this into production later this year. Sony has long coveted the project for its tent pole potential. Jonathan Kadin and Hannah Minghella are overseeing for the studio. Gordon is repped by WME and Brillstein.