Days Done Director Wanted to Create an Uncharted Based on a Young Sully - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 February 2022 / 1,711 Views
Days Gone director Jeff Ross speaking with Scared Symbols+ revealed that after Sony did not greenlight a sequel to Days Gone, the team had started to think about what other Sony IPs it could work on.
This included Uncharted, which Ross says the idea would have been to focus on a young Sully in the 1970s.
"Victor Sullivan at the age of 25 in a very stylised world where… it would be around 1976 it think is where we figured out his age might be," said Ross via VideoGamesChronicle.
"He busted out of the Navy for reasons, and I thought seeing him young and trying to figure out his way in this world going from trying to be a soldier or you know a military man to now I’m just out on the streets and I’m gonna become a hustler."
Ross added, "A young sexy Victor Sullivan, to me, would have been like Sean Connery.
He did say the Joker and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood films portrayal of the 1970's would have influenced the idea. "That’s what I wanted to do without leaning into the cheesy parts of the 70s," said Ross.
The Days Gone director previously stated he also pitched an open-world Resistance game to PlayStation once it was clear they had no interest in a sequel to Days Gone.
"The pitch I was making was, open-world Resistance would be fucking rad," he said at the time. "There were all of these open-world loops that we figured out... it almost wrote itself with Resistance.
"There were so many aspects of that property that lent itself to open-world gameplay. But they weren’t interested in that either. I don’t know how well it sold. They were interested in almost anything other than Days Gone 2."
It was confirmed in June 2021 that Bend Studio was working on a new open-world IP.
"New IP is incredibly important to us. New IP is the lifeblood of gaming," said the head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst at the time. "But, new IP is just one aspect of our strategy. Ultimately, I want PlayStation Studios to be fiercely daring, to take risks."
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Young sully and resistance open world my good lawd such wishful thinking!
This article contradict others, since it wasn`t Sony that disregarded the sequel to Days Gone, it was the studio management themselves.
About Young Sullivan that have been something UC fans have speculated/requested as the next UC game.
I thought Day's Gone was a good game and very underrated....that said I don't want them making an Uncharted game. I think an Uncharted game starring Sully is a great idea, but I don't think Bend Studios has the talent to make it as great as the other Uncharted games. I haven't played the Vita games, so its possible I would change my opinion if I played those.
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May want to fix the typo in the article's title.
Interesting concept but I doubt Naughty Dog would've agreed to let their IP be handled by another studio.
Well Sony Bend already developed Golden Abyss...
Oh.....lol
It was quite the looker dor a ps vita game
When did that rumor changed from remake to sequel/prequel?
From the reports in VGC on jason schreder rumors was that they were unhappy to make the remake after being denied the chance to make the sequel and asked to be removed from it. Nothing about prequel, and even the sequel denial wasnt from Sony but from the studio itself, Sony still gives the devs great freedom. You can see from the exert you put that Jason isnt as trustworthy as you claim. And he is trying to put bad light at Sony. Also which company would tell their team instead of doing their best and making hits to make whatever and put trash on market?
If the project went that far, I feel like there would be non-disclosure agreements preventing this guy from talking openly about it
