Prince of Persia: The Price of Fame
Oh, Jake. Jake, Jake, Jake. What've you got yourself into now.
Either the man has an ego the size of his home town, or he’s not seen any of these pictures yet. For those of you out of the cinematic loop, Jake Gyllenhal is in the process of filming a Prince of Persia film. Now, technically, if it’s the first game that’s being transferred to film, does this mean we’ll see an Oldboy-esque scroll to the right as he slowly platforms his way through a fantasy epic?
Apparently I’m wrong, sadly, and it’s based on the one game in the franchise I prayed they wouldn’t ruin; The Sands of Time. This title involved everything from acrobatics to messing around with the fourth dimension. Now, unless I get seriously creative with the DVD of the coming film and my controller’s rewind button, I don’t really see any of this transferring across.
Where’s the dust going to go? If he can rewind time, why has he got so many scars in the above photo? Are we really going to see any acrobatics true to the form of Ubisoft’s epic? At least the voice acting might be slightly better, unless this is some kind of pseudo-disaster film with sandstorms instead of snow and flooding, replacing Arabia with New York.
Not to mention the fact this is a Disney film. Yes. Prepare for the local Disney store to start stocking everyone’s favourite time traveller (ignoring the nameless depressive chap in Braid) and probably making him look like Aladdin with a different costume on. Commercialism for the epic win, it would seem.
I’m also by no means going to argue that the graphics in Sands were photorealistic, but seriously, at least the prince looked fairly Persian. What looks Persian about Jake “I love time-distortion films” Gyllenhal? For the same reason that The Rock was somehow cast as the Doom protagonist, the film industry will once again choose big names over common sense. For shame, ladies and gentlemen of the film studio, for shame.
The film’s in post-production at the moment, IMDB states, so it’s too late to stop the film from being made. That said, all Max Payne fans could do was slow the production down. Hopefully we’ll be able to yank a huge dagger out of an hourglass and the film will cease to exist at all.
Stay tuned.
I just don’t understand why they keep making video games into movies. Sure there is plenty of video games I’ve enjoyed playing but have I ever wondered what it would be like to see them as movies? No. Games are for playing. Now books on the other hand are different and that’s what Hollywood (who are clearly running out of ideas) should stick to instead of remakes, ripoffs and so on.
Btw that pic of J. Gyllenhal looks ridiculous. lol