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PRINCE OF PERSIA Movie Clips – 6 Clips from Disney’s Action/Adventure Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 8th, 2010 at 9:24 am

Disney has released 6 clips from producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and you can check them out after the jump.  Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, and Alfred Molina in a Mike Newell film, Disney is clearly trying to mimic the success of their Pirates of the Caribbean franchise with Prince of Persia.  Also, Disney is trying to break the video game to movie curse, as most would agree no video game has been successfully adapted into a great movie.  But with mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer on board, this might be the one that finally gets it right.

So if you’d like to get a glimpse of Prince of Persia, hit the jump for the clips.  And if you missed all the new images we posted, click here.  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time gets released May 28, 2010.

Tons of New Images from Walt Disney’s PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SAND OF TIME in High Resolution

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 5th, 2010 at 4:00 pm

Walt Disney has sent over a ton of images from their upcoming video game based movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.  While we’ve posted a number of them in the past, there are a bunch of new ones mixed in.  Rather than just post the new ones, I’ve put them all together and in high resolution after the jump.

The press junket for Prince of Persia is this weekend in London, which means you can expect tons of movie clips and info on the film to hit the net very soon.  Until then…

Walt Disney Announces WonderCon 2010 Lineup – PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME, THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE and TOY STORY 3

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: March 12th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

Walt Disney has announced their WonderCon 2010 lineup and it’s going to focus on their summer 2010 movies.  According to the press release Disney sent over, they’ll be pushing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Toy Story 3, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.  And while you might think they’ll just show some footage and the presentation will be short, they’re treating this like Comic-Con and bringing along some big names like Jake Gyllenhaal, Jordan Mechner, Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel, Teresa Palmer – plus Filmmakers Jerry Bruckheimer, Mike Newell, Jon Turteltaub and Lee Unkrich. If you’re going to WonderCon in San Francisco, it sounds like you’ll see some cool stuff.

Disney says their panel is Saturday April 3rd.  Here are the times:

• 12:15 – 12:45 PM     PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
• 12:45 – 1:15 PM       THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE
• 1:15 – 1:45 PM          TOY STORY 3

Hit the jump to read the press release.  A lot of the other studios will be at WonderCon.  We’ll post updates as we get them:

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Featurette: Creating an Epic

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 19th, 2010 at 10:03 am

Walt Disney has released a Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time featurette called Creating an Epic.  As you might imagine with that title, the featurette shows what the production and actors went through to bring the movie to life.  What’s great about the video is not only does it show behind the scenes footage from Morocco and the massive sets that were built, it’s got new footage from the movie.

While many have tried and failed to make a great movie based on a video game, I think this is going to be the first one that works.  Hit the jump to check out the video:

Exclusive PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4 Update from Producer Jerry Bruckheimer

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 4th, 2009 at 4:02 am

Last week I went to Producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s office in Santa Monica to get an early look at the “Prince of Persia” trailer.  Perhaps you read what I wrote.  Anyway, after the presentation ended, I walked outside the screening room and Bruckheimer along with “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner were standing nearby talking. While not wanting to interrupt their conversation, when you have an opportunity to ask one of the biggest producers in Hollywood a question or two, you sometimes have to get aggressive. I walked over to say how much I liked the trailer and how I thought this might finally be the video game based movie that kicks ass.

But once the “Prince of Persia” talk ended, I decided to ask Mr. Bruckheimer what’s up with “Pirates of the Caribbean 4″. As you might have heard, a management shakeup recently happened at Disney and rumors have been flying that Johnny Depp might not do the film with former Chairman Dick Cook out of the picture. Since no one has been able to confirm or deny the rumor, with my limited time I decided to ask Mr. Bruckheimer three questions: I asked what’s up with the script, when are they going to shoot the film, and did the regime change cause any problems. He told me they’ve gotten the script, the management change will not affect the production, and he believes they’ll be filming next year. Of course things change along the way, but the way he spoke to me about the project, I believe the Black Pearl is going to be looking for the Fountain of Youth quite soon.

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Game Creator Jordan Mechner Interview

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 4th, 2009 at 4:01 am

Last week I went to producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s office in Santa Monica to get an early look at the “Prince of Persia” trailer along with a number of other online journalists. As I said last week, I think “Prince of Persia” is finally going to break the movies based on a video game curse.  Up to now, every video game based movie has been treated by Hollywood as a joke. They never have a budget. The scripts have been terrible. Also, after you see the movie, you lose respect for the game it’s based on. But after watching the trailer and speaking with Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner, I think they’ve done everything they could to try and make this movie work.

Anyway, after we all watched the trailer, Bruckheimer and Mechner answered questions for about twenty minutes. While they discussed all the usual behind the scenes stuff, there was a lot of new info revealed.  Here’s some of the highlights, but you can read the full transcript after the jump:

• They recently test screened the movie and it was 147 minutes (2hr. 27 minutes) but they’ve shortened it since then. Bruckheimer said “the movie took a little long in getting started, so we made a trim at the beginning of the film that really helps it.”
• Bruckheimer says “Prince of Persia” is like a throwback to Lawrence of Arabia with supernatural
• They’ve been working on the special effects for over a year and a half.  Bruckheimer talks about how they took a long time developing the story to try and break the video game curse.
• Some other “Prince of Persia” games are coming but Mechner wouldn’t tell us any specifics except  we’ll hear about them in the next few months
• I tried to find out if they set up anything for sequels in the movie.  Bruckheimer and Mechner said they didn’t.
• They changed the names of some of the characters from the game as a signal to gamers to not expect it to be a literal retelling of the story of the game
• If you’ve played the game, you’re going to notice some gameplay on the screen

As I said, after the jump you can read the full conversation. If you’re a fan of the video games or you just want learn what went on behind the scenes to bring “The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” to life, you’ll really dig this interview. Take a look:

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