Director Mike Newell's adaptation of video game-to-film adaptation of "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" is still more than a year out, but that didn't stop mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer from revealing the first bits of footage during a weekend interview with ABC. The clips primarily feature star Jake Gyllenhaal looking angry or distressed, but there are enough sweeping shots to give fans a vague sense of the scale and style of the upcoming film.
It's increasingly difficult to get excited about these game-to-film adaptations when the most recent examples we can look to are "Max Payne" and "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li." That said, Bruckheimer and Newell are both men who know their way around a blockbuster. Read more...
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Fans looking for a first look at the poster art for the upcoming, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" will have to head to the movie theater to see it, though it won't be in the place they might expect.
Mega-Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has hidden the poster inside his latest film, "Confessions of a Shopaholic", appearing as a Times Square advertisement about halfway into the film. It joins posters for a number of other Bruckheimer productions, including the upcoming "G-Force", though "Persia" is unique in that it marks the first time the films' artwork has been seen anywhere. Read more...
Take “Pirates of the Caribbean.” You have this franchise that goes out, makes $3 billion in theaters, another couple billion in DVD and ancillary merchandise, and wouldn’t you know it? Suddenly, everybody wants to compare their new film to the series that launched a thousand Orlando Bloom fan pages. And in one case, they’d actually be right.
“Prince of Persia” isn’t just going to be like “Pirates” in terms of scope and tone, the newest Disney/Bruckheimer tag-team is actually going to “do for Arabian Nights movies what ‘Pirates’ did for pirate movies,” screenwriter and series creator Jordon Mechner told MTV News. Slated for 2010, the film will star Jake Gyllenhaal as the iconic video game character character.
“This is how we pitched it to Disney and Bruckheimer – as an old-fashioned swashbuckling action-adventure in a tradition going all the way back to the Doug Fairbanks movies. The modern equivalent being ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ an example of an old movie made new again, doing a fresh take on it for a modern audience,” Mechner said. “Tonally, I’d say it’s basically ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ with maybe a half-step towards ‘Gladiator.’” Read more...
