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Uncharted (2022): Nathan Drake, Sully and the Problem of Trust

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Tom Holland, who plays Nathan Drake in Uncharted (2022), at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016. Event portrait, not an Uncharted still. Photo: Gage Skidmore , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Display size adjusted; source photograph unchanged. Uncharted is easiest to approach as an adventure about a partnership that has not yet earned its own trust. Nathan Drake needs to interpret clues, but he also needs to interpret the people travelling with him. A solution to a puzzle is useful only if he understands whose interests it serves. Sony’s official record identifies the 2022 film and its central cast: Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, Mark Wahlberg as Victor “Sully” Sullivan and Antonio Banderas as Santiago Moncada. Sully recruits Nathan to search for a lost fortune connected to Magellan’s expedition, while Moncada asserts a competing claim to it. A mentor is not automatically a reliable guide The difference in experience between Nathan and Sully gives the relationship an immediate imbalance. One knows more abou...