Jake Gyllenhaal has been confirmed to play the prince in Jerry Bruckheimer's movie based on the Prince of Persia games.
Mike Newell, who directed Donnie Brasco and the forth Harry Potter movie, will take up directing duties, whilst Gemma Arterton (Bond girl to be in Quantum of Solace) will be the princess.
Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in Persia who joins forces with Tamina (Arterton) to prevent a nobleman
29 Nov, 2007
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Michael Bay is being linked with the forthcoming flick based on Ubisoft's Prince of Persia videogames.
Movie website IESB.net reports that Walt Disney Studios (Walt Disney Pictures is co-producing the movie with Jerry Bruckheimer Films) is "hopeful" that the film director "will indeed direct the picture" after concluding directorial duties on the Transformers movie out this summer.
The site adds that the Prince of Persia movie will be released in Summer 2009. Writers on the movie include
Following the news last month that Ubisoft is , the company has today released the first three shots of the free-roaming game in action.
This time round, the game - which will be released for all current-gen consoles and PC - features two playable characters in the shape of Kaileena as well as the Prince himself.
Players are given a range of combat options, including an expanded free-form fighting system, the ability to strangle enemies from afar with a Daggertail and one-shot
Prince of Persia 2 is looking to take the first game's great looks and gameplay to new heights with its often subtle but significant tweaks. We have five new screenshots of the matured, gritty Prince in action.We loved the job Ubi Soft done with Prince of Persia - bringing it bang up to date but not loosing the essence of the original - and what we've seen up-close and personal of this sequel gives us confidence that it's going to be even better. Hopefully, this time around the gaming public
We were recently privy to a private screening of Prince of Persia 2 (working title) and what we've seen at E3 confirms our first impressions that the game has taken a very dark turn indeed. As executive producer of POP 2, Yannis Mallat, said, with a wicked smile spreading across his lips, "No more Aladdin". The story revolves around the mistake the Prince made by breaking the hourglass in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. An incarnation of Fate is stalking the Prince so he embarks on a violent
In a market dominated by franchises and sequels, the slow-building commercial success of Prince of Persia (2.4 million copies and counting) was a heartening testimony to its - get this - quality gameplay.While far from perfect - we can pick holes in the camera, lack of bosses and somewhat patchy pacing for starters - Prince of Persia is still one of the very best console games you could pick, and easily the best adventure platformer of the last year. So imagine what a new combat system could
Ubi Soft president Yves Guillemot has confirmed that a sequel to Prince of Persia is in the works. "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a resounding success for our group," he said in a financial statement. "A sequel to this hit is already being planned with an improved marketing positioning."We thought Ubi Soft's take on the classic action-puzzler was great but UK sales indicated that the gaming public in general didn't think along the same lines. However, the game has sold two million
