Prince of Persia Posters

[twaddington]

Courtesy of Movies.ie we can show you the first posters for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Unfortunately the posters don't tell us much more than we already knew, the film will star Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton. Directed by Mike Newell the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game follows prince Dasdan and a mysterious princess called Tamina on a mission to safeguard an ancient dagger that could unlock what is known as the Sands of Time, a force which leaves its possessor able to bend and break the rules of time. The Prince of Persia video game series has been around for a long time(first one was released in 1989) and are very popular amongst gamers so it seems slightly strange that it has taken until now for it to receive cinematic treatment.

To be honest, these posters haven't exactly whet my appetite for the film. In fact they look more like perfume adverts than film posters.

Prince of Persia, the new fragrance by Jake Gyllenhaal.....Defy the Future

Sources: Movies.ie, Screen Rant

[dnwilliams]

i love these posters, so totally the opposite of the direction i expected them to go with it. really strong looks. black and white posters seem to be fashionable, they had them for the star trek and bourne ultimatum one sheets, but they manage to make it look distinctive here. and i love the choice of translucent sans serif fonts, completely antitypical.

[dalmatianjaws]

Defy the Future
Fight the Future


Hmmm


*yawn*

OF course, I yawned about Pirates and the first one was awesome. then the sequels were exactly what I thought the first one would be.

[dnwilliams]

i'm staggered there's so much negativity about this project, i'm well excited!

[Sheridan Passell]

I have calculated my interest in this film -

0%


Even the demo for the game couldn't hold my attention.

[dnwilliams]

i loved the sands of time, brilliant platformer. not that that's what translates into my anticipating this movie, i'm not a big gamer, and i think all movies based on games suck because games aren't exactly the storytellers medium of choice. but i like pirates, dammit. and i like the seventh voyage of sinbad. and i like gemma arterton.

[dnwilliams]

gyllenhaal mocks your lack of faith. bwahahahaha!

[Sheridan Passell]

Someone just asked him if he could spare 5 minutes to talk about making the film look less like a pantomime.


...or when he expects to see the sequel to The Last Airbender.

[dnwilliams]

to which he replies: bwahaha! you might as well give david your money now!

[dnwilliams]

looks awesome! (if a little reminiscent of the scorpion king...)




there's something creepy about this photo, but i can't quite put my finger on it. maybe i don't want to put my finger on it, my finger might not like it there...

[dnwilliams]

1) Those prince moves were made for movies. The footage opens with a shot of the prince (Gyllenhaal) perched above the city and gave us an idea what it looks like when a real person swings around an ancient city, wall-walks and climbs up a castle grabbing onto arrows embedded into the wall.

There wasn't any footage of the prince jumping over a chasm, grasping a ledge and pulling himself up. Maybe that's the money shot they're saving for the Super Bowl spot.

2) The story is epic. Now we don't just mean exotic lands and fantastic realms. Prince of Persia is metaphysically epic as well. "I love the mystical part," Bruckheimer said. "The dagger holds the sands of time." Footage gave us a glimpse of the sands dissolving the prince out of linear time in a golden dust storm.

3) It's got really big action. The prince employs uber-Parkour moves to speed through treacherous environments, slides down a sand hill as a temple collapses over him and squares off with clanking swords and rippling biceps against other Arabian warriors.

4) It's lavish. No previous video-game movies so far have really pushed the limits of Hollywood production design, but Prince of Persia is a full-on historical epic. The filmmakers are so proud of the ancient Persian wardrobe that Disney put Gyllenhaal and Arterton's costumes on display in the hall of the Anaheim Convention Center.

5) They invented a new word to describe it. In his opening remarks, Cook referred to Prince of Persia as a "Sinbadic adventure," meant to evoke the fond memories of Ray Harryhausen's classic swashbuckling Sinbad films. If you invoke Harryhausen, you better have the goods.

i am now, officiall, disproportionately excited for this movie. you should see the look on my face, the only word to describe it is 'gleeful'.

[Sheridan Passell]

If those are the highlights, I'm out.