Prince of Persia

**D.B. Cooper** · November 02, 2009, 06:56 PM

The trailer is finally out. It looks decent, though I think they should have picked other people for the leads. Effects

Fight scenes

Cinematography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZXnB333D1o

**Del Valle** · November 02, 2009, 07:02 PM

I was just about to post this. I've really never played the games, but I love all things Persian and exoctic, so I'm probably going to see it.

**ivan_the_terrible** · November 02, 2009, 09:45 PM

Disney :S

Gyllenhaal :S

I don't know....

**hellheaven1987** · November 02, 2009, 09:53 PM

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

They completely mess up the story!!!!! Why TT's feature would appear in SoT??? Why the prince looks like prince from WW???

Damned, I thought SoT is the best one for Disney to produce because its pro-children environment, but then Disney screw up!!!!

**D.B. Cooper** · November 02, 2009, 10:26 PM

The last bunch of video to movie adaptations have sucked, so I truly hope and believe this will be good.

**ivan_the_terrible** · November 03, 2009, 04:59 AM

Originally Posted by D.B. Cooper

The last bunch of video to movie adaptations have sucked, so I truly hope and believe this will be good.

You are a true optimist, then. Disney is producing this. It will be formulaic, and it will suck.

@W.

Prince of Persia is far older than xbox my friend! Though the film is based on the Sands of Time. But it was cross-platform anyway.

**Last Roman** · November 05, 2009, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by D.B. Cooper

The last bunch of video to movie adaptations have sucked, so I truly hope and believe this will be good.

there has never been a good video game to movie adaptation (with the possible exception of the first Resident Evil)

**Gaidin** · November 05, 2009, 09:54 AM

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

They completely mess up the story!!!!! Why TT's feature would appear in SoT??? Why the prince looks like prince from WW???

Damned, I thought SoT is the best one for Disney to produce because its pro-children environment, but then Disney screw up!!!!

Because you can't make a 6 hour game(IF YOU PLAY IT REALLY REALLY FAST) into a 2 hour movie without ruining it anyway. So they're making a 2 hour movie based on the world and concepts of a 6 hour game. That simple.

**hellheaven1987** · November 05, 2009, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by Gaidin

Because you can't make a 6 hour game(IF YOU PLAY IT REALLY REALLY FAST) into a 2 hour movie without ruining it anyway. So they're making a 2 hour movie based on the world and concepts of a 6 hour game. That simple.

No, what Disney did is adding more stuff for a 6 hours game; clearly, there is no plot about bring the Dagger of Time to some ancient temple or what ever it is in original game (it only happens in WW, where Prince tries to find the origin of Sand of Time). The plot of Sand of Time in game is simple; Prince captured some foreign stuff from India, he messed it up and turned everyone into sand monsters, and then he found out it was a plot by Vizier and tried to reach the center of Palace to finish Vizier to stop Sand of Time.

**Gaidin** · November 06, 2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

No, what Disney did is adding more stuff for a 6 hours game; clearly, there is no plot about bring the Dagger of Time to some ancient temple or what ever it is in original game (it only happens in WW, where Prince tries to find the origin of Sand of Time). The plot of Sand of Time in game is simple; Prince captured some foreign stuff from India, he messed it up and turned everyone into sand monsters, and then he found out it was a plot by Vizier and tried to reach the center of Palace to finish Vizier to stop Sand of Time.

And yet there's quite a few key parts of the level design that they just don't have time for. The Caves, the Library, the Dungeon, the Cages. The list goes on. This is assuming we want to do a movie with only three characters, which would really be a league of suck all its own.

**Hounf of Culan** · November 02, 2009, 11:59 PM

I actually think Gyllenhaal or whatever his name does look very similar to the prince from the game, but he was in the day after tomorrow and Brokeback mountain so he is not immune to being in ridiculously horrible god awful films.

**hellheaven1987** · November 03, 2009, 12:04 AM

He looks like Prince in Warrior Within; but hey, we want Prince in Sand of Time, not that sex-depressed guy in Warrior Within.

**George W. Bush** · November 03, 2009, 02:47 AM

Hey, this movie has that one Brokeback Mountain cowboy in it? I didn't like that movie, but maybe I'll like this movie. Action-adventure movies are a good genre, so maybe this'll be real good. Prince of Persia is based on the old Xbox game of the same name, just a little trivia for you young folks. I can remember five years ago seeing that at a Washington D.C. retail store...

**Hounf of Culan** · November 03, 2009, 10:39 AM

To me it looks they are kind of combining the three iterations of the prince into one, you have the sands of time element with the dagger, he also looks like the prince from warrior within, and in that one scene his arm looks just like it does in PoP Two Thrones with the Dark Prince infection.

**Sher Khan** · November 03, 2009, 01:01 PM

A mystical-exotic 1001 Arabian Nights kind of movie with the Sands of Time concept and characters would have been possible under a different studio and director/producer. It's obvious, though, that what Disney wants (and Bruckheimer always does) is create a new super-franchise cash cow like Pirates of the Caribbean or Transformers.

It might be good, bad, anywhere in between. The special effects are looking good, if not over-the-top at times, and depending on the profit margin we may be getting one or two sequels afterward.

Also, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina.

**EireEmerald** · November 03, 2009, 02:34 PM

actually looks half decent

**Mangalore** · November 04, 2009, 03:38 PM

Wow, looks pretty cool.

1) It's finally a game adaption not done by Uwe Boll
2) It looks very true to the game in story and atmosphere

Kinda speaks for that game series whose narration I found very cool when I played it when a movie is made seemingly very close to its concept.

anyhow it's a game adaption. Those are not famous for being as cool as the game most of the time...

**Louis Lux** · November 04, 2009, 07:34 PM

You can't really expect much from movies based on games, I haven't seen the latest like Max Payne but they all pretty much have the same plot and suck really bad.

The trailer was cool but something just feels wrong, what scares me the most is Ben Kingsley, it seems like he's looking for movies that are each time worst than the last and movie productions haven't done a good characterization on him since Gandhi.

**Manco** · November 05, 2009, 10:06 AM

I kinda liked that trailer.
Plus I'm a hesitant fan of Gyllenhaal.

**Louis Lux** · November 05, 2009, 10:25 AM

District 9 is the best movie adaptation of a game that never existed, if you get what I'm saying, I couldn't help thinking of videogames when I watched it. And the fact that the director was going to make a Halo movie makes it so frustrating, it might have been the movie to open the door for better adaptations. Anyone seen this: