We are starting to see more and more of Mike Newell's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Luckily, they are getting more exciting as time goes.
Yesterday I posted some new posters for the video game adaption of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
It has been a while but here is another look at Jake Gyllenhaal, playing Prince Dastan in Jerry Bruckheimer's epic Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, due out on 28th May 2010. The film also stars Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arteton.
When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. Brothers tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and younger brother Tommy Cahill (Jake Gyllenhaal), who are polar opposites. A Marine about to embark on his fourth tour of duty, Sam is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, the aptly named Grace (Natalie Portman), with whom he has two young daughters (Bailee Madison, Taylor Grace Geare). Tommy, his charismatic younger brother, is a drifter just out of jail who’s always gotten by on wit and charm. He slides easily into his role as family provocateur on his first night out of prison, at Sam’s farewell dinner with their parents, Elsie (Mare Winningham) and Hank Cahill (Sam Shepard), a retired Marine.
/film had these two photos of Jake Gyllenhall from the set of the new Prince of Persia film. Mike Newell’s film tells the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.'Pirates of the Caribbean' blockbuster producer Jerry Bruckheimer is bringing 'Prince of Persia' to life, based on the hugely popular video game and scheduled to open in theaters on May 28, 2010. The story finds Jake as Dastan, a young Persian prince who must join forces with the beautiful and feisty princess Tamina (played by 'Quantum of Solace' Bond girl Gemma Arterton) to prevent a villainous nobleman (Ben Kingsley) from possessing the Sands of Time -- a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
"I'm running away from family and I'm running away from bad guys and I'm trying to prove my innocence," says Jake, trying to keep the play-by-play plot details a secret. "There's so many extraordinary elements throughout the movie."
First Showing have a review of the full script of the Prince of Persia movie starring Jake Gyllenhall. It contains lots and lots of spoilers but it sounds pretty good. Here's a little on what they have to say about it.Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time feels like it could be a great adventure story. There are plenty of amazing action sequences, a decent plot and some really fun time travel sequences. Think Pirates of the Caribbean action, Kingdom of Heaven setting, and a dash of Back to the Future. It's got a solid plot and is going to be really fun to watch. The characters are all believable and entertaining. The action is top notch. However, there are times when the writers decided to make Dastan do something completely unbelievable. Rather than thinking of how cool it would look, I was more inclined to roll my eyes at the absurdity of it all. These moments are rare and small blemishes on what I think is going to be an entertaining movie.
I am concerned that these moments may also resonate with other questionable choices being made for this film, notably the lead casting choice. In the script, Dastan is described as a lean and athletic Persian man. But starring as Dastan is the blatantly American Jake Gyllenhaal who, in leaked set pictures, looks less "lean and athletic" and more like he's been filling his eclairs with horse steroids. Personally, I can't see the hulking Gyllenhaal performing realistic wall running stunts and acrobatic flips. Are the filmmakers going for adventure fantasy or a rough historical epic adventure? This is the confusion that I think could pull audiences out of the story, which is sad because it's really a great story. It might not exactly be groundbreaking storytelling (in essence, an uncle kills a king to get the throne as a young prince struggles with it all - Hamlet anyone?), but it's damn good entertainment.
Disney has touted this film as the next Pirates of the Caribbean, and it very well could be. What Prince of Persia lacks in vividly memorable characters like Captain Jack Sparrow, it makes up for with tons of entertaining eye candy action. Free running sequences like those seen in the beginning of Casino Royale have become extremely popular, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is full of them. Just imagine the combination of free running and sword fighting (because sword fighting is always cool!) - if the stunt coordinators can make it look visceral and real, we've got a great treat on our hands. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is going to be fun, unbelievable at times, but very, very fun.
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Here is a first look at Sir Ben Kingsley as the villainous Nizam from the 2010 Prince of Persia. Looks like he's doing the pointy dance or YMCA. Who knows! It's another off set in costume photo like the one we had a while ago of Jake Gyllenhall as the Prince. Nothing actually on set althought we did have some set photos as well. Just need some of Gemma Arterton in costume as Tamina now for the main three parts to be complete.What do you think of Ben's boogie?
