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Prince of Persia film gets hit with sands, release pushed back a year photo

According to a report over at ComingSoon.net, the release of Walt Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time film has been pushed back nearly a year. Originally slated for a June 19, 2009 release, Walt Disney are now targeting the film to hit theaters on May 28, 2010.

While no reason for the delay has been given, one can speculate. If were were to indeed speculate, we'd say that -- as ComingSoon.net points out -- it may be a simple case of repositioning the release for maximum marketing impact. Or maybe the production is a disaster. Or maybe the rumored Ubisoft Prince of Persia film tie-in game needs some more development time ...

Whatever the case may be, it's doubtful anyone will be too upset by this news. I suppose the only thing we're really waiting for is to see how badly producer Jerry Bruckheimer and company screw this one up. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is being directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and stars Jake Gyllenhaal as the not-actually-Persian Prince Dastan and Ben Kingsley as a also-not-Persian bald guy.








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glandseck's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 10:53
glandseck
Whaaaat?
AAAH! Why wasn't I informed of this earlier?
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 11:05
Wexx
Ugh...
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 11:07
king3vbo
Is it just me, or does Jake Gyllenhaal look toked to high heaven?

Get it? HIGH heaven. God, I'm so witty
mikeyed's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 11:19
mikeyed
Worse than Bloodrayne? If not at least a more costly disaster than Bloodrayne.
whormongr's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 11:21
whormongr
disney is going to do an awesome job of sucking this up and turning it into aladdin
Mauer's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 11:42
Mauer
Awesome, they got the director of the worst Harry Potter movie in the series.
HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 12:01
HarassmentPanda
I heard this movie was going to be about eating pudding.
Ambulance-Y's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/01/2008 14:39
Ambulance-Y
they should do a throw back to jakes only good movie and pit him in a battle with a guy in a giant bunny suit.
wydren's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/02/2008 16:55
wydren
The reason they moved it is so that it wouldn't have any competition from Transformers.
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