The "Uncharted" movie has an official relese date and a new poster. 

When Zap 2 It was speaking with director Seth Gordon he confessed that "Uncharted" movie will shoot "very early next year. That's the plan." 

While the film has had a lot of false starts in making its way to production, Gordon is confident that this time it'll take. For one thing, he says the filmmakers have "just got the script to a really good place." Secondly, there's hopes of using the release of the upcoming video game Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to cross-promote the movie. 

While the "Uncharted" movie may only be a few months away from the comencement of shooting, there still Gordon still hasn't found his leading man to play Nate Drake.

Gorgond said, "I want it to be a great actor. That's number one, and then if it's someone who has an actual jaw, that's even better. The game is so well done that you need it to live up to that. There's no way we'd do the inverse of that where it's somebody famous who can't [act]." 

Seth Gordon's previous directorial efforts include "Horrible Bosses" and "Identity Thief," movies that noticeably were fronted by television stars, from Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day to Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. While Gordon didn't tip who he might be eying to take on the role of Drake, he admitted he's open to the idea of pulling a player from television once more. 

Gordon refused to drop specifics about "Uncharted's" plot line, but did share: 

"It's going to honor the mythology of the game, but I would say honor some of the most interesting stuff from the first one and build from there. There's some stuff that isn't in the game... I love the complexity and frankly the sophistication of the storytelling in the game, and we aspire to that -- but don't want to tell the exact same story, of course -- so something that doesn't break the rules of what it did but expands. Because I feel like the people who play the games and know them well don't want to just see the same story told. You want extra shades."

We first got word of an "Uncharted" adaptation back in 2009, when scribes were first put on the project. From there, the production landed David O. Russell to helm and Mark Wahlberg to star, but by the spring of 2011, both had bailed. Shortly thereafter Neil Burger (The Illusionist) was on board, dumping Russell's revised script and starting from scratch. But by the summer of 2012, he too ditched out on Drake. Seth Gordon signed on earlier this year, and if all goes according to plan Drake's globe-trotting adventure could be on its way to theaters within the year. 

Gordon said last week that he "love[s] the complexity and frankly the sophistication of the storytelling in the game," but doesn't want to simply retell the story featured in the games. "I feel like the people who play the games and know them well don't want to just see the same story told," he said. "You want extra shades."

A new Uncharted game, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, is currently in development at Naughty Dog for PlayStation 4. It does not yet have a release date, and Sony has not indicated whether it plans to tie its release into that of the film

Sony has confirmed "Uncharted" for a June 10th, 2016 arrival, taking the spot that the studio had previously reserved for a Spider-Man film.