We’ve had a few looks at the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time video game adaptation over the last year or so. The first images were unofficial with the first official one getting released a couple of weeks ago which showed Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan.
Not long after that came a couple of new posters for the movie, one again featuring Gyllenhaal (which isn’t surprising since he’s the lead and one of the main draws for the film) and the other featuring Gemma Arterton as the female lead. Then came Ben Kingsley’s poster as Nizam.
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The images so far have been mostly reassuring that the movie will be somewhat decent…
Today we get another slick look at Prince of Persia courtesy of Empire (who have nabbed the exclusive), continuing that kind of style of the first posters (which looked more like fashion magazine covers than movie posters).
A couple of the images appear to be mid-scene, where our Prince and Princess Tamina (an alluring Gemma Arterton) look to have been at first soaked from head to toe, and then attempting to escape on horseback. The other two are behind-the-scenes, showing director Mike Newell, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Check out one of the images below:
For the full size version, plus the rest of the exclusive images, you can head over head over to Empire.
With regards to the two mid-scene images, it seems like strange ones to promote Prince of Persia. Not that they don’t look cool and all (something about water as a still image is weirdly nice to look at), but you’d think the promotion stills would be more… staged.
It’s a nice change, though…
What do you make of these latest Prince of Persia images? Are you looking forward to this video game adaptation?
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell. It is slated for a May 28th, 2010 release.
Source: Empire
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That’s a somewhat funny image. XD
I love the comments on the Empire page.
What is funny is that the extras with Bruckheimer are of Persian or Arab descent and Gemma is, from where, Kent?
Still looks hot though.
Am I the only one perplexed by this entire concept? Like, from start to finish? I can imagine the meetings on this bright idea:
Exec 1: Okay, so video game to movie translations have been execrable so far, but I got a good feeling on this one; let’s throw together a movie about a video game character who jumps around like a coked-up spaz, spinning his hilarious knives about, and who can’t die (as long as he remembers he controls TIME). Who to cast? Who to cast?
Exec 2: Well, he’s the Prince of Persia.
Exec 1: Persia, Persia… Jake f**king Gyllenhaal.
Exec 2: That white ape from Donnie Darko who consistently proves he can’t carry a film single-handedly?
Exec 1: We’ll give him a tan, a crap wig and some leather pants. Is Aasif Mandvi still rented out for Airbouncer or whatever? F*ck him — cast British actors in all the rest of the roles to take the American stink off it. It’ll be like pooping money.
Exec 2: Sir. I love you. So much.
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Who knows? Maybe it’ll be good. You throw enough money at a problem and it transforms into box office gold, right? But honestly, Jake’s crêpe wig and leather ensemble make the whole production look like a very special episode of “Jack of All Trades”.
HAHAHA, yes, Jack of All Trades, thats exactly what I was thiking especially the first shot.
last time I remember the Prince in Sands of Time didn’t wear leather, only in the Warrior Within.
I guess it makes the Prince be a ‘dark’ hero because ‘dark’ sells
That picture looks animated to me, like in Beowulf. I’m OK that the main character is not Persian (it would have been better but if it works with Gylanhall, great); there are other great movies where the actors were not of the same descent as the characters they portray (10 Commandments, Spartacus, Ben Hur). I’m just hoping for a great movie.
LOL Im sorry but Gjake is def mist cast. He looks like a Rocker Groupie breaking into the water park.
@hamlet3k
Man thats hillarious hahaha.
When I heard of this adaption I wasn’t sure it would really work out because of the whole story line of it but I still will watch it. But not until dvd lol
hmmm…jake? I dunno about that, or the chick whos gonna play the princess…i think they should have had another cast…definitly…
Geez. Haven’t we grown up enough that we don’t need white folks to play foreign parts? Seriously, if you want to find racism in America, look no further than how Hollywood treats Asians.
Having said that, if they can get Gylenhaal to do the parkour, and not rely on wire work/digital stunt doubles, that will be the only thing that will make this movie not suck.
I can’t believe Jake Gyllenhaal as the prince of Persia.he doesn’t look like him at all.if you want to see the real prince of Persia go to this : http://www.niksite.com/photo/albums/hesam-navab-safavi/hessam-8-2-87-b.jpg
now which one is better? a Persian actor or Gyllenhaal ?
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