New Prince Of Persia images

WHITE GUUUUUUUUUUUUUY!!!

Should've been Shalim Ortiz

I hate Jake Gyllenhaal. Why him...WHY!?!?!?

I need a trailer before judging.

Check out what I posted about what Jordan Mechner, creator of P.O.P and co-screen writer, said about the movie.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/news/?a=6547

Jake Gyllenhall as Prince of Persia? He is unsuited. Was there a shortage of a more ethinic actor?

I think Oded Fehr(from the Mummy, Resident Evil) would have been better served as the Prince of Persia instead of this broke back mountain cowboy.

Shalim Ortiz could do the role justice too but I like Oded best.

Oded Fehr would have been fantastic, but no, GOD FORBID Hollywood cast an Egyptian or an Arab as an Arabian Prince. That'd be like having a film about ancient Greece with a Greek looking cast.

i really hope this film is good i must say it does look good at the mo but i think a trailer will tell us i personly think he looks great as the prince..

I agree w/ Ror that all video game adaptations are destined to suck but but maybe, just maybe there is hope, maybe PoP will break that horrible cycle the script was wrote by the actual creator this time around.

i kinda don't care cause since it is his baby and all he can make whatever changes he wants and i wont complain as long as the movie is still good, if it's boring and lame then i will complain.

Someone's bitch... Totally!!! Which is why his performance in brokeback was good. It suited him perfectly. Heath on the other hand was a talented actor which could pull off ANY performance as unatural as it could be. But this is a discrace to one of my favorite videogames. Is Uwe Boll on this??? Hell, after seeing these picks, it couldn't hurt it further. For some reason, this has "The Musketeer" written all over it. I dunno...i just get that "feeling", lookin' at it.

Ah well, i guess it leave's room for the best videogame adaptation to film which has yet to come... Castlevania!!! I have full faith in Paul W. Anderson and his bitch "protege" which will direct it... for now.

Well your not wrong! It was pish

Whoa. Codpiece. I agree with who ever said, God forbid should Hollywood use an egyptian or arab person as their arab prince. F'ing hollywood.

Jordan Mechner, Creator of Prince Of Persia, Speaks

He wrote an article about the legacy of Prince of Persia in December's Game Informer magazine on the challenges of translating it into different mediums (because he helped write the movie script too).



"The biggest difference between writing a game and writing a movie: Movies are about the story and characters. Games are about playing.

The real story of a game isn't the one that's told in the dialogue and cinematic cutscenes - "In a galaxy torn by civil war, one lone starfighter..." - but the story the player tells afterwards "I was down to my last ship, 50 points short of getting an extra life...I'd cleared the screen all except for this one small rock going super fast-and then the flying saucer came..."

A trap for game creators is to think that by increasing the complexity and cinematic scope of the first narrative-or, if it's a film adaptation, by borrowing elements that worked great in the movie- they're making a better and richer game. The second narrative is the one that needs to be complex and gripping, if the game is any good.

It's when those two narratives work in sync that video games are capable of emotional effects that are unique to this art form. Like when you're down to your last few hit points, and your companion who's fighting alongside you accidentally shoots you in the butt with an arrow...then apologizes when you yell at her. Creating such moments requires teamwork, planning, and a solid understanding of game and movie craft.

A similar pitfall awaits screenwriters adapting a game to film. Many video games have the surface elements of a great movie: action, spectacle, a cool-looking hero, stuff blowing up. But a game is exciting because as the player you're doing it. experiencing the triumphs and setbacks yourself. Take away the gameplay and you're left with a story- often the weakest element of the original game.

To write Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as a screenplay, I took my own game script as an inspiration, not a blueprint. One of the greatest pleasures of a movie- especially on the scale that Disney, Mike Newell, and Jerry Bruckheimer can deliver- is seeing a fantastic ancient empire brought to life with an epic scope and a rich, diverse, and human cast of characters. The Sands of Time video game script was tailored for the PlayStation 2, to be played with a controller in hand- different constraints, different objectives. Some game fans may wish we'd made a movie that literally followed the game plot. I think if we had, they'd be disappointed."

Yes, Jake is a good actor I agree...Heath absolutely without a doubt. But it doesnt mean they have to have all the roles or they are perfect for it. I dont care who is gay or not. To each his own. But it wasnt the best movie & when you say his name it's one of the 1st thing people will relate him to like it or not.

I dont think Jake is suited to the role even if he is a good actor. You have someone like Oded who is from Israel, looks more persian, can act, can ride horses (didnt have to learn for the movie), fights and looks more like a man, like royalty than the boyish charm that Jake has. I want a MAN to take care of buisensss not a boy who grew his hair out and grew a 5 o'clock shadow to go save the world. IMHO. I know he is not a boy...he is 20 something, I realize but he still looks young, and not royal and not persian.

LMAO JEEZ guys.....lets see how this turns out first...i dont think jake was too bad a choice for this...he is white but he has a look to him...he could pass as the prince of persia and y'all should remember when heath was first cast as the joker....i'm sure a bunch of y'all thot he would suck (including me)or when downey was cast as tony stark....but guess what happened, they both killed it...so lets at least wait for the trailer....

we shud all just wait untill the film is out then ppl can say if he was good 4 the part or not ... yes neo24real im glad sum 1 els said that cus i wud bet my life on it that alot of fans completly sllated they guy wen it first cum about.

should have gotten VIGGO!

http://www.electronicbookshere.com/Viggo_Mortensen/Viggo_1.jpg

I think it's really funny that as soon as the dreaded Hollywood puts its greasy little finger on a movie everyone freaks out that a white guy is playing the Prince, even though NOBODY was freaking out when the series first got revamped and the title character was... How should I say... Less than dark-skinned?

Sniveling fanboys need to go back and look at the source material and tell me that Jake doesn't look perfect for the role (look at the second pic, not the first one with the little lost puppy look like "Whoa, how did I get in Egypt?"). None of you were whining about how unrealistically white the Prince looked in the game, and because the character was created by computers and not two ethnically-traceable parents no one could condemn him for being one particular race. All we knew was what he looked like, and I'll be damned if he looks like an Arab that bakes under the sun all day. He looks like [frick]ing Jake Gyllenhaal if you ask me.

And to all those Brokeback haters, if you guys were so afraid of homosexuality maybe you shouldn't have watched a movie about gay cowboys, and maybe you shouldn't watch this movie staring a buffed up shirtless male movie star. Just sayin'.