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Footage from Jerry Bruckheimer's upcoming Prince of Persia: Sands of Time film has appeared on the internet.
The YouTube clip presents a Bruckheimer interview interspersed with clips of the cinematic action. These show the Prince - a freshly-muscled Jake Gyllenhaal - ducking, slashing, and spinning his way through the over-crowded, dusty desert streets.
The set-pieces are stuffed with extras and no expense has been spared, as we've come to expect from Bruckheimer after Pirates of the Caribbean.
The wealthy producer is evidently very impressed with the Donnie Darko star's portrayal of the Prince, too.
"Well he's very handsome and he's in fantastic shape - he got in great shape for this movie," said Bruckeimer. "And he's a brilliant actor and that's what it's all about. He's young, he's talented, and that's what we rely on, his talent."
Donnie Brasco and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire director Mike Newell is at the helm, and will be bossing stars such as Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina and Gemma Arterton around.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is loosely based on the game of the same name, and will be out in cinemas next May.
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PearOfAnguish
12/05/09 @ 09:28
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Looks crap.
Another success for Sir Ben "I'll Do Any Old Shite" Kingsley. |
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HarryPalmer
12/05/09 @ 09:29
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"what does he bring to the role?"
"well, he's very handsome, and he's in great shape" Wow |
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AphoticCosmos
12/05/09 @ 09:31
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IMHO Ben Kingsley should just make a cameo as Gandhi and be done with it.
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bodypopper
12/05/09 @ 09:41
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Why not just remake Beastmaster instead? Actually with his cute-but-useful animal sidekicks he'd be a great videogame character.
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AphoticCosmos
12/05/09 @ 09:48
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you all jump to conclusions from a few seconds of footage ?
Of course, it's the internet. |
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alimokrane
12/05/09 @ 09:57
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@rhinoxious
With Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley & Alfred Molina in the cast, I personally am not worried. oh and Mike Newell is directing NOT Bruckheimer. Jordan Mechner is involved in the script too .... I dont see how they could have had a better team in there.
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kingnothing12
12/05/09 @ 10:00
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Curse of the black pearl is awesome, i actually have hopes for this one.
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alimokrane
12/05/09 @ 10:01
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@Tomo
Well he was doing the same thing for the pirates of the carribean trilogy and those didnt turn out too bad now did they.
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hiddenranbir
12/05/09 @ 10:05
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Looks terrible. Rabble rabble rabble.
Did they even use a single Persian?!?!
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PearOfAnguish
12/05/09 @ 10:15
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If they know what they're doing there will be at least one fight scene filmed from the side with Ghyllenhall shuffling up and down a corridor waving his sword in the air.
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Mentalist(air)
12/05/09 @ 11:03
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Surely this has the best combination of cast, director and budget of any videogame adaptation yet? From the footage in that clip, it all looks rather more faithful to the Prince of Persia ethos than Warrior Within or Two Thrones were.
The only odd thing about it that I could see was that it seemed very crowded. Every scene seemed to have loads of people in it, which seems quite removed from the Pince of Persia aesthetic. That all reminded me rather more of Assasin's Creed. |
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Mentalist(air)
12/05/09 @ 11:05
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It's pretty clear it'll miss the point
Running and jumping, fighting with swords, Arabian themes, magic, princess. It's missing those points? PoP isn't exactly a Phillip Pullman novel. |
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If they know what they're doing, there'll be a shot from the side in which Gyllenhaal misses the same jump four times, falling to his death on the spikes, has to reload each time, makes the jump and is sliced in two by a trap he didn't notice, swears a lot and leaves the movie paused while he goes for a pee.
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captainrentboy
12/05/09 @ 13:07
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* I'll echo nearly all of the comments currently over on AICN*
WHHHAAAATTTTT?? I can't believe they didn't get a big Persian star like...Hmmm... Well, Y'know, that guy? Yeah, they should have got him to play the historically accurate and highly important Prince, not big ole gay Donnie Darko. Look at him, and his hair!! Gay! Hollywood's sooo bloody racist..... Sometimes I truely hate AICN. Infact, the vast majority of the time I hate that site :) |
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@roz123
They could have cast someone who actually looks persian In what way, specifically does he not look Persian? Perhaps he just doesn't fit whatever stereotypical Persian you've got in mind at the moment (I'd be willing to bet it's Omid Djalili?) but as Persia/Iran has a hugely diverse population I think he looks about as Persian as the next dark-haired bloke. |
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@Robyrt
What most worries me is Bruckheimer's comment that "he's very handsome, and he's in great shape." No, his comment was "he's very handsome, and he's in fantastic shape, he got in great shape for this movie and he's a brilliant actor, and that's what it's all about." He then goes on to say "he's young, he's very talented and that's what we rely on, his talent." I wonder what is this mental filter that some people have where they apparently just stop hearing or understanding in the middle of sentences is called? That's it I've heard enough for that comments post! Time to start typing. LALALALALALALALA! |
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MightyMouse
12/05/09 @ 17:36
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It looks pretty much as you'd expect, but the fact that it has Jake Gyllenhaal in it surely makes it a cut above any other videogame adaptation.
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actionfitz
12/05/09 @ 18:50
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Dizzy
12-May-09 11:07:26 >Did they even use a single Persian?!?! "We might have killed them all ;) " lol harsh. thats a fair point though. might as well be 'Prince of Genericistan' |
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Thunderbolt!
12/05/09 @ 19:36
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Such hatred!
I must say I am impressed from what I've seen, I think this one could be a winner Oded Fehr is an obvious choice but too old for the role I think - you should check him out in the great series Sleeper Cell. CountFapula, on reflection WW wasnt that great but still enjoyable and the two thrones had too many GOW QTE for my liking otherwise it was a great game. The first one is still my favourite. |
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Silvervein
13/05/09 @ 21:29
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Maybe they should update the movie with some real life events? I mean, with the invasion of *former* persia due to their alleged WMD and stuff there's a lot of material. And the last prince game had some oily black goo covering stuff. Which might be nice analogy to the black goo that was the real reason behind the trouble in iraq.
So I got this idea: persia is in grip of terror and black goo oozing from under the ground. To help them comes prince of faraway land, Great Wise Shrubbery. He proceeds to fight local corrupt Guardians of Ooze oppressing their fellow persians, and cleans the place of goo by...say..transporting it away (using wheelbarrow) and selling it at the border for weapons and armour (and glam chick companions). Then he storms palace, kills the evil vizier and everyone rejoices. |
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