The New “Prince of Persia” Trailer: From Videogame to Jake’s Awesome Abs?
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 7:00 AM PT
Here’s the new trailer for the upcoming videogame-to-live-action Disney (DIS) movie, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.”
It still looks an awful lot like a videogame and is chock full of special effects–but the adaptation also seems to feature much in the way of shirtlessness and mascara-wearing on the part of star Jake Gyllenhaal.
Directed by Mike Newell, the fantasy-action adventure is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer of “Pirates of the Caribbean” fame, so you just know a theme park ride is next on the list.
Opening May 28, 2010, the story follows along the lines of the videogame, as a rascally prince and a comely princess try to stop an ancient dagger that can reverse time and give unlimited power to evil folks.
If this sounds like every plot of every videogame, with a little “Lord of the Rings” and British accents for all thrown in, you win!
The original videogame series was published by Ubisoft.
Here’s the trailer video, which does look kind of good (and now leads as the choice for the annual movie outing for the D8 staff before our next conference):
Comments
Love JG but those aren’t exactly awesome abs.
Posted by Craig Luna at November 5th, 2009 at 10:39 pm