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3/1/07 at 10:40am
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Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer look to be having a live action "Prince of Persia" movie ready for next summer. There's some production art for the film along with other upcoming Disney movies at...

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19143
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3/1/07 at 1:15pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

If the follow the storyline of the videogames (which are fairly cinematic), this could make a neat movie, what with the twisting story and time-travel aspects.

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3/1/07 at 1:19pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008



That's concept art?! I thought it was a set photo at first. Damn!


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3/1/07 at 1:30pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

Hopefully, he'll be the droll, sarcastic prince from Sands of Time.
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3/1/07 at 1:36pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

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Hopefully, he'll be the droll, sarcastic prince from Sands of Time.
i totally agree. unfortunately, i fear that the myopic powers-that-be in hollywood may well gravitate more toward the brooding, heavy-metal prince from the subsequent installments.

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3/1/07 at 1:43pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

Since it's Bruckheimer and Disney, somebody's got to be thinking, "Hey, this could be our next Pirates of the Caribbean." The prince isn't that far removed personality-wise from Jack Sparrow, so we may be okay there.
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3/1/07 at 1:45pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

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Since it's Bruckheimer and Disney, somebody's got to be thinking, "Hey, this could be our next Pirates of the Caribbean." The prince isn't that far removed personality-wise from Jack Sparrow, so we may be okay there.
excellent point. excellent...

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3/2/07 at 7:31am
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

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Since it's Bruckheimer and Disney, somebody's got to be thinking, "Hey, this could be our next Pirates of the Caribbean." The prince isn't that far removed personality-wise from Jack Sparrow, so we may be okay there.

More importantly, the (initial at least) film screenplay was written Jordan Mechner who only had a hand in the first game so that tone was probably the starting point they went with.
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3/2/07 at 10:18am
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

I only had the information at hand, but I know of Jordan Mechner. I've been playing his games since I was a small child, starting with Karateka. His involvement is good news.
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4/15/07 at 1:10pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

Oh, no.

http://firingsquad.com/news/newsarti...searchid=15079

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7/6/07 at 9:51pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

I just read at the IMDb that Bay is not confirmed as the director, and that Bruckheimer has said that a director has not been picked. Has anyone heard anything along these lines? Dare I hope? POP is about the best idea for a video game translation I've heard of, but I'll skip it altogether if Bay is given the helm.
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8/11/08 at 3:02pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

Well.. looks like Jake Gyllenhaal got in shape for the part.



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8/11/08 at 7:12pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

Well that seems a pretty nice movie.
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8/11/08 at 7:57pm
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Re: Prince of Persia - Summer 2008

IMDB lists Mike Newell as the director with a release date of 28 May 2010
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11/4/09 at 6:12am
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Trailer is up, looks excellent.

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11/5/09 at 3:48pm
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Huh.  What do ya know.  That looks really, really good.

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11/13/09 at 11:10am
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Apparently, Ubisoft thinks the movie is going to outperform Pirates of the Carribbean's success at the box office next year....he may have a case, judging by that trailer. This looks like it has all the same elements, action-adventure, comedy and then some (Jake Gyllenhaal gets me) and an awesome video game....
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11/13/09 at 11:44am
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Does it have a Jack Sparrow though?  This guy seems to translate more with the Orlando Bloom character and the movie lacks the Sparrow.  Just MHO
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11/16/09 at 2:10pm
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I think Jake can hold his own on this movie... I don't even know that they need or even have a Sparrow-ish character. I do think they have a pretty good evil villain, esp with THE Sir Ben Kingsley playing him. I think it looks really good so far but I guess time and moviegoers taste will tell if it can replicate that success....
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