Tom Holland as Nathan Drake is making a killing, and we don't just mean the many murders of faceless goons in the games and the movie, but at the international box office too. The Uncharted movie is in fact on course to become one of the highest grossing video game movies ever.
So far, Sony's Uncharted has taken over $300,000,000 worldwide, which means it's made more money globally than each entry in the Tomb Raider movie series has (thanks GameSpot). The nearest competitor in that game-to-film franchise is 2001's Angelina Jolie-helmed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which took a not-adjusted-for-inflation-figure of $274.7 million, narrowly besting the 2018 Tomb Raider that starred Alicia Vikander.
Uncharted has taken over $113 million domestically, with the rest coming internationally, and the movie has just opened in China, where it made $1.95 million on its first day on Monday. Uncharted is now nearing the $319 million the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog took, although it still has a bit to go to overtake the biggest video game movie.
Warcraft (2016) is at number one on these rankings, achieving $439 million, while Detective Pikachu sits just below at $433 million, and The Rock-starred Rampage is third with $428 million, and The Angry Birds Movie is ahead of Sonic and Uncharted with $352 million.
With Uncharted a success with audiences, it seems Sony is looking to make sequels and has said the title is its next "franchise". It's already a franchise really, considering the games have spawned multiple sequels as well as spin-offs, and with Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg's version of Nate and Sully proving a hit it would be a no-brainer that Sony would be interested in follow-ups.
Uncharted's director Ruben Fleischer has said he is keen on a sequel and is interested in adapting Uncharted 4's wild car chase scene to film. Certainly, more treasure hunting, rope swinging, goon-killing, wisecracking, and vehicular shenanigans wouldn't be a completely terrible prospect. Our reviewer called the movie "far from perfect and falls flat on a number of occasions", but that this version of Uncharted "remains a swashbuckling adventure that I couldn’t help but crack a smile at".