Prince of Persia movie news: Cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince) and Gemma Arterton (Princess)

23 May 2008

Posted by:Ferry

The Prince and Princess of Persia playbed by Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton
The latest Prince of Persia movie news reveals that Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko) and Gemma Arterton (James Bond: Quantum of Solace) will star in “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” as the respective Prince and Princess. The movie is Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ adaptation of Ubisoft’s popular video game (created by Jordan Mechner). Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin wrote the script. Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) is directing, Bruckheimer is producing, and Mike Stenson, Chad Oman and Patrick McCormick are executive producing. That’s a lot of big movie industry names there.

In the fantasy adventure, Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in 6th century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (played by Arterton) a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Bruckheimer was quoted by the Hollywoodreporter as saying: “We’ve been fairly fortunate with some our leading ladies. Some of them have gone on to become major movie stars, going back to Nicole Kidman in a movie I did a long time ago called ‘Days of Thunder’ to Keira Knightley out of (‘Pirates of the Caribbean’).” Bruckheimer declined comment on the “Prince of Persia” budget other than to say, “It’s not one of our smaller productions.” Production is set to start in July in Morocco and England. The movie will be out in summer 2009.

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Sweet post! There’s a cool interview with the director here-

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delva

Jake Galagagala? This movie is gonna suck… I was dreaming about Prince of Persia the movie for years now.. I hoped if it ever’s going to be made, they’ll get Colin Farrel to play the prince, The best game is Warrior Within, and Colin has the same bad-ass look! And he still can play that candy-look boysband fan from the Sands of Time! Anyone seen ‘Alexander’?
Shirin

I can’t believe Jake Gyllenhaal as the prince of Persia.he doesn’t look like him at all.if you want to see the real prince of Persia go to this : http://www.niksite.com/photo/albums/hesam-navab-safavi/hessam-8-2-87-b.jpg

now which one is better? a Persian actor or Gyllenhaal ?
http://www.videogamesblogger.com Ferry

Shirin: I agree with you, the real Persian prince looks like a better fit for the role. That said, I don’t mind Gyllenhaal (unless his acting sucks). Besides, they’ve been shooting the movie for a long time now, so it’s not like us complaining is going to change anything heh heh.