We weten al dat David O. Russell de regisseur is van de Playstation 3 verfilming Uncharted: Drake's Fortune met Mark Wahlberg in de hoofdrol. Lang niet iedereen is blij met de keuze voor de Oscargenomineerde filmmaker (The Fighter), onder andere omdat hij geen echte fan van de game zou zijn en geen ervaring heeft met dit soort films. Russell heeft nu gereageerd op deze reacties. Allereerst beschreef hij zijn relatie met de gamereeks:

My son plays most of the games in our house, and I will play them with him but I’m not hardcore. I’m not going to present myself as hardcore. But I played the game a bunch of times and I also read as much as I could about the game and I met the game’s creator, Amy Hennig, who’s really cool. I started to brew together what I thought could be a really cool idea that I’d never seen in a film before…Really intense action and really intense family dynamics on a global stage. To grow a game into a movie is an interesting proposition because a game is a very different experience than a movie. You guys are playing the game, and it’s about playing the game. It’s not about a narrative embracing you emotionally. You know what I’m saying? So, I want to create a world that is worthy of a really great film that people want to watch and rewatch, so that’s what I’m working on right now.

Vervolgens ging hij in op de kritiek van de fans: