I am weirdly obsessed with the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced Prince of Persia movie. I don’t why, but I have a gut feeling that this could be the first videogame movie that is an honest-to-God hit. I am feeling a Pirates of the Caribbean vibe. That movie was based on a freakin’ ride for crying out loud and it turned out pretty great.
True, casting a Caucasian as a Persian prince is a little odd, but stranger things have happened in Hollywood. So far the talent involved seems to be pretty topnotch – especially for a videogame to movie adaptation.
And the impressive talent keeps on coming! It was just announced that Alfred Molina (of Spider-Man 2 fame) and Ben Kingsley (of being awesome fame) will join the cast. While no info is known of Molina’s role, it has been confirmed that Kingsley will play Nizam, the main villain of the film who kills his own brother and tries to frame the titular prince (Jake Gyllenhaal) for the murder.
What do you think? With all these people involved, am I right in thinking this movie could actually be good? To prove my confidence I am going to make a bet right now: If this movie does not make at least $100 million domestically I will do something horribly embarrassing. Any ideas?
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12:16 PM on 06.06.2008
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Also, I anticipate that with enough "from the makers of The Pirates of the Caribbean" marketing behind it, this movie could gross over $100 million IN THE FIRST WEEKEND.
Yeah, try that on for size.
...holy shit.
If Gyllenhaal pulls this off, I'm giving him an Oscar if I have to make it myself.
Attaching his name to a project isn't a slam dunk.
Also yeah, if Kingsley can play Ghandi, he could probably pull off Persian.
Apparently he always wanted to play a vampire, but didn't know the history of Uwe Boll.
Such a price to pay for your own soul Kingsley, tsk tsk.
I'm more excited for the game based on the movie based on the game. TIME PARADOX!!!
OMG, is it really the same? That's weird ...
I really didn't, though. :)
I want no brooding looks from gyllenhaal, none just a big cheesy grin as he chops up back guys.
Oh yeah. Oops. Um ... the satisfaction of being right? :)
anyways i think ben kingsley will be a good Persian he already played one in House of Sand and Fog he was really good.
Oh, really? Thanks for the info. I had no idea. Sorry about the misinformation. :)
p.s I love Chad
@TheWrath: How is Tom Cruise acting as an American who studies the way of the samurai and becomes one something that is hard to pull off? The point of the story was that he WASN'T Japanese. Did you even watch the film?
"No, you are going to have to turn this opportunity yes!"
Better than Snatch or Lock Stock.