Prince of Persia: The Movie
April 16, 2007 by swivel
The adaptation of the popular game franchise has been in the works for awhile now. Jerry Bruckheimer has been helming the ship, and we now know who the director will be. Uwe Boll.
Okay, just kidding. Actually the long-time partnership of Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer made this one a no-brainer. Coming off of the highly anticipated “TransformersTransformers reviews
” movie adaptation, work is set to commence on the Prince of Persia film soon. The release date is slated for the SummerSummer reviews
of 2009.
Why should anyone be excited about this movie? It is simple: Think Pirates of the Caribbean. Just as Disney used a very loose association with a theme-park ride to serve as the foundation of an original script, so too is the Prince of Persia team using the games as a general guide. The Arabian setting of Prince should make for a gorgeous backdrop for thrilling action scenes, just as the Caribbean worked for “PiratesPirates reviews“.
12:23 pm on April 16th, 2007
They will have no issue making a money-making franchise out of this. The Prince of Persia series is a great video game franchise to create a movie from for a variety of reasons, one of them being that the actual characters and game universe is not so revered by gamers that if the movie deviates off any of the game canon (not aware of much with PoP), no one would really care like they would with a game like Halo, Half-Life, etc.
12:38 pm on April 16th, 2007
Agree. The lack of cannon is a great benefit to the movie-makers. One fear I have is that the game-creator wrote the first draft of the script. Hopefully the guy who took over the script fixes the mess that you KNOW he made of it.
I just wonder what ancient excuse they will make for explosions? How can you have a Jerry-Bay film without massive explosions? They didn’t have reliable black powder back then, but you KNOW they will write that shit into the script somehow.
12:41 pm on April 16th, 2007
Well, they had no issues introducing grenades in The 300.
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