The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Steve Watches the PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Trailer

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: October 29th, 2009 at 11:54 am

The other day I was invited, along with a number of other video game and movie sites, to Jerry Bruckheimer’s office in Santa Monica to watch the “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” trailer. While the trailer will be online and in theaters very soon, Disney decided to premiere the trailer to our lucky group and they also gave us twenty minutes with Jerry Bruckheimer and “Prince of Persia” creator Jordan Mechner. While I’ll have a transcript of what they said next, I can tell you what I thought about the trailer right now.

My quick thought is we’re finally going to get an awesome movie based on a video game. 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 from the two minutes of awesome that is the “Prince of Persia” trailer, I think more people are going to want to play the game because it looks so cool. And don’t get me started on how awesome it looks when Jake Gyllenhaal uses the Dagger of Time. More after the jump:

Disney to Show Off TRON, PRINCE OF PERSIA, THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE, and More at D23 Expo

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 3rd, 2009 at 12:49 pm

How much money and power does Disney have?  Enough that they can hold their own damn convention to show off all their own product.  Other studios have to share the stage at some rag-tag event like the San Diego Comic Con while Disney, rolling around in Jonas Brothers and “High School Musical” money, can go to the Anaheim Convention Center, and show off all of their shit. (That’s going to be slogan by the way: “D23 Expo: Check Out Our Shit”)

The D23 Expo (the “23″ commemorates the fourth through twenty-third “Mighty Ducks” movies that never were) will offer looks at ABC’s upcoming shows, behind-the-scenes look at what’s coming to Disney theme parks, a look at Disney’s history and their classic films, but who cares about all that.

What’s going to bring a slew of journalists to Anaheim from September 10th through the 13th is that Disney will be offering first looks at “The Princess and the Frog”, “Rapunzel”, “isney’s A Christmas Carol”, “Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland”, “TRON”, “Toy Story 3″, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”.  As someone who probably won’t be attending this conference (since I don’t live in California), I’m a little worried as to what this means for what Disney will bring to humble Comic-Con.

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First Footage from PRINCE OF PERSIA: The Sands of Time Movie

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

While we still don’t have a trailer for Disney’s “Prince of Persia” movie, thanks to the magic of YouTube, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer doing an interview on TV, we have our first look at some footage from the movie.

Of course it isn’t much, but you do get to see Jake Gyllenhaal in action, and the amount of extras in some of the shots are quite impressive. While I don’t know the exact budget, I do know Disney spent some serious money on this film, as they’re clearly hoping to turn this into the next “Pirates” franchise.

With Disney releaseing a few big movies this summer like “Up” and “G-Force”, I’d imagine we’ll get our first real trailer quite soon.

“The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” gets released on May 28th, 2010. And here’s the synopsis from IMDB:

Set in medieval Persia, 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. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it’s up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.

Thanks to Slashfilm for the heads up on this story.

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