The Prince of Persia Movie Trailer is Out on the Web
Along with it, the rumors of another addition to the game series
By Florian Totu, Games Editor
3rd of November 2009, 21:31 GMT
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The Prince of Persia movie trailer has become available to the public and it now seats swinging from some column on the YouTube website. The trailer was previously seen at some press events last week, but, now, the just-under-two-and-a-half-minute trailer can be enjoyed by everyone with access to the World Wide Web.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, the movie seems to stick to the same guns it held when it announced that the movie would receive the same attention as the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Not that money would have anything to do with it, but the $150-million-budget movie is bound to be a world apart from anything that Uwe Boll ever stitched together and called a movie.
The trailer removes any doubt there was about the movie's plot and confirms that it will follow the action of the 2003 Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time title. The movie involves the creator of the original 1989 Prince of Persia, Jordan Mechner, who was brought in as a co-writer.
Mechner was also the one that created the Sand of Time, which would explain why the series was resurrected to its original fame by the title. Just as the game did, the movie will focus its action on the magical dagger that can alter the natural course of time, as it reaches the hands of the Persian prince.
Mike Newell, who also did Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Donnie Brasco, has also been co-opted to direct the film. The Prince will be played by Jake Gyllenhaal, and, even though the trailer shows him making a decent representation of the Prince of Persia, his slight British accent might come as a bit inappropriate to some, considering he's supposed to be an Arab royalty. The movie will come out at the end of May 2010, and, according to unconfirmed rumors started by the film's cast, Ubisoft will release another title in the Prince of Persia series around the same time. GameSpot tried to dig around for more details, but Ubisoft has yet to respond.
Please correct your article the Prince of Persia is NOT considered Arab royalty. Persians are not Arab. Persians (Iranians) are commonly mistaken as Arab but they are not.
The level of simplicity you apply to something as complex as to two different cultures is stunningly oblivious, I hope you don't use that kind of erroneous logic in your everyday life.
But I'll break it down for you,
Ex. Are Chinese and Japanese the same? No. Are the Aztec and the Navajo the same.? No. But to the casual observer they may appear to be. Being wholly ignorant of a culture I suppose makes it easy to make that blithe generalization. But the generalization is still incorrect and indicative of a complete lack of knowledge.
Simply put
"so called" similarity does not the same make.
Comment #4 by: ryukamiken on 10 Nov 2009, 00:34 GMT
I saw the trailer, and concluded that the film is going to either be made or broken on the strength of its dialog. The dialog on the trailer looks like it is going to need some more extensive sight gags and rhythmic timing to set up properly, but has the same general feel as Pirates. The action is going to be awesome, obviously, and since the original PoP involved a lot of enemies poofing into sand when killed, they can probably do it without a lot of bloodwork. Hopefully they won't try to modify the Prince's visually stunning and creative fighting style. If the movie is a hit, and I think it probably will be enough of one to justify a sequel, then it will be interesting to see how Disney handles the far darker and more haunted Prince of Warrior Within. Heck, by that time, he qualifies as a full blow anti-hero, which would be a first for Disney (unless you count Jack Sparrow, and I don't). And while stand alone main characters work great in video games, they are hard to maintain or justify in movies. Borne is the only one I can think of that was a hit.
All in all, I am looking forward to seeing this film. Either it is going to be laughably and groanably horrible, or it is going to be well-polished and excellent in every way.
For some reason, I am not seeing much chance of a middle ground, here.
