Nov 3 2009'Prince of Persia' Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Finds the Slow Motion Knife!

I know I'll be made fun of for this, but that preview is freaking awesome!

chicks voice is annoying

does anyone get why they have english accents

i would have just dropped the Arab Money track, over this trailer, would have been that much better... yep, that sure was a lot of CG in there.

The graphics look too good, what does this come out for, PS3 or Xbox 360. Hope I can still borrow it from my local library.

"Hey, Jake Gyllenhaal, wanna be Spider-Man and save us from having to put up with whiny, permanently-prepubescent Toby McGuire?"
"No thanks. I need to keep my integrity as an actor intact."
"Hey, Jake Gyllenhaal, wanna be a video game character that's Persian?"
"That's how Daddy roles."

See, this looks like The Mummy (bronze-colored desert action movie) with a hotter male lead. I'm all in.

No thanks.
I've seen The Mummy / The Mummy: The Mummy Returns / The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor / The Mummy: No, Seriously Are You My Mummy? (urban release) / The Mummy: The Scorpion King / 300 already.

Wow, that looks crappy.

The prince had an english accent in the game(though they never explained why in that either) so I guess they're trying to stay somewhat true to the character. Also, so your girlfriends don't complain AS much if you drag them to this of course.

(Video game nerd complaint incoming.)
I'm not particularly a Prince of Persia fan(I think the games are only average, though of course the original from back in the day is a classic) but wow, they completely missed the mark as usual with adaptations. Bleak is the word of the day in most of the games, this just looks like Pirates set in a drier climate. It looked more like they were mix and matching elements of Assassin's Creed than actually making a real PoP movie. (Not that a PoP movie was ever a good idea since it would be impossible to recreate the true nemesis of the titles in overwhelming vertigo and the frustration at not being able ot make a jump 30 times in a row.)

I agree that the girl was annoying (she wouldn't shut up, and was completely monotone the entire time) but what really bothered me was the title 'logo'... it doesn't seem original at all (it looks like a slightly altered 'transformers' logo, which is NOT what you want to be compared with)

Nothing can reach the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean when it comes to Disney live action films.

This sucks!

And, while I find it somewhat annoying when people cast a ridiculously hot woman that can't act just to get people to come to a movie (particularly because there are a couple ridiculously hot women that can act that could be cast instead), that would be one of the few things this movie would have going for it and the lead actress is totally plain. Fantasizing about her would be like kissing your sister-you can do it, but why would you want to?

that woman needs to shut the hell up, my god...
but the cgi looks cool.. yea..

@ 11 To be fair, Assassin's Creed was influenced a lot by Prince of Persia.

Honestly though, would you rather take your girlfriend to watch this or Sex and the City that memorial Day weekend? I'd rather watch this thanks.

I kind of wish they used Papyrus as the title font so I could mock it mercilessly.

This might be actually pretty good, who knows?

Does look an awful lot like The Mummy and Pirates combined. LOL.

Honestly, this is a perfectly acceptable action/fantasy trailer. The people hating on it seem to be the people who hate everything. After a summer of such horrible, senseless visual assaults like Transformers 2, this seems positively old fashioned. Movies like this remind me of the old popcorn fare like Clash of the Titans and The Argonauts. Those weren't amazing movies by any means, but they were empty fun which some people call classics now.

@16 Well, I meant specifically the look of the outdoor areas more than anything by that. The gameplay of course borrowed a lot(though I'd be willing to put the setting as incidental since PoP is a generic Arabian Nights theme while AC is straight historical Crusades). Most of (at least the first of the new) PoP took place in an apocalyptic palace atmosphere, where AC is all about the running around in a desert(ugh, the Kingdom) or jumping around in the distinct cities. This trailer certainly goes for the latter.

Apparently Jerry Bruckheimer with $150 million and the Prince of Persia brand = Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert. Rental, if that...

If you pause it at 26, the face that Gyllenhaal is making? Priceless.

Nonstop exposition is right. Show don't tell, people!

Looks like Pirates of the Persiabean.

I will enjoy the first one, and then become board by the third movie.

@ 16, You're assuming most of the geeks on here that would complain about the text not being papyrus or that the sand is the wrong color or that it's ripping this blah blah game actually HAVE girlfriends.....most of them, sir, do not.

P.S. Before most of you complain about my lack of penis, know that, yes, I do lack a penis.....I am a woman, I have breasts.....what, oh, sorry, forgot that you've never actually seen or touched real breasts.......

She has breasts, somebody get this lady a medal.

I want to fuck that chick

They lost me at "Walt Disney Pictures"

Brukheimer: "I know, let's cast a tanned white guy that CAN'T DO PARKOUR as a Persian acrobat, and a British chick with a (probably fake) tan as a Persian princess. Then let's give the white guy with a tan a British accent just to make sure there is continuity."

@25 So wait... complaining that Hollywood has blatantly ignored and misrepresented source material means someone is a friendless introvert who hasn't seen real breasts? Well, I may be a friendless introvert but I totally see boobies all the time on my porn sites! SO HA.

@25... yeah umm... got a girlfriend... have seen her breasts... have touched her breasts... yeah uh don't assume so much about the readers here. We come from all sorts of walks of life. (sounds like your breasts could use a little fondling maybe that's why you're so grumpy)

the only thing i dont like is how anyone foreign in disney films tends to have an english accent nomatter where theyre from

I think whats most pathetic is not that Hollywood hasn't faithfully adapted its source material (because who expects that?); it's that you care. It's a f*cking video game. Get over yourself. It's not "crime and punishment", or "Dune" or even "Zelda" (When is that movie coming out?). It was a decent game, sure. But to pour over the minutia of this cultural failure proves how little some of you people have actually seen. Life is not lived at a video game console.

That glowing thing hanging in the sky oustide your house is called the sun. Don't be afraid. Trust me.

You know what would be great? Prince of Persia goes all gay like Brokeback Mountain but instead of being celebrated the Muslims kill him.

@25
oh wow you have boobs.
big fucking deal. so do i.
who cares if these guys have girlfriends or not?
just cause your photography is amateur doesn't mean you gotta be bitchy.

and why do you care if they complain about a game to movie adaptation.
i agree. why can't they find a persia guy to be the prince.
not that i don't like jake but shit everyone has to be recasted just to get more sales.
like the kid in Avatar is white. and the guy who plays the Fire Prince is the guy from
Slumdog millionaire. he seems more reasonable though since he has acting skills.
but really why can't just use actors with talent as opposed to just using pretty faces.
are you telling me there aren't any good looking Persian guys that can act?
whatever.

"Brokeback Sand Dune" is how this looks to me. I'm forever scarred after my girlfriend made me watch "Brokebakc Mountain" with her. I will never see Jake the same way after that movie..................... HURRRRRRRL!!

Well I think everyone who have watched that trailer, won't have to pay for a ticket...Watching that trailer you just have seen all the good scene from the motion picture, even the end scene, that I'm sure...gosh I hate when they do that.

Now I can say " YES I've seen Prince of Persia, it is crap."

To make this more realistic, she should be a brown, smelly, hairy babooshka with a visible moustache and they should have fully-sick lebo accents.

BLEH!!..
Which means they'll most likely make two more sequels.

@40 - you're totally right. It has a subtitle: "the sands of time" is a dead giveaway that they are going for a franchise. $.05 says they'll be grabbing all the story lines from Arabian Nights...

As soon as I heard her refer a "SECRET Guardian Temple" I facepalmed IRL.

i am a persian chick
and i DO NOT approve of the leading roles
the hoity toity english butler voices are just embarrassing

i give walt disney authenticity props for jafar

but this is just weird

Wow. That actually looks good....

Oh God...It's not that bad.

It looks like a decent summer action flick. Yes, it strays from the game's plot a little, but honestly, if you want to hear that story, then just play the game again and save yourself $11.50.

As long as the writers didn't completely muck up the logic and the dialogue, Gyllenhaal will be ok. They kept the basic premise of the dagger that reverses time. Besides, there's a new Prince now that doesn't even reference the Sands Prince. I think a little suspension of disbelief isn't too much to ask.

I don't get all the crap about him not being Persian. How many of you could actually pick a Persian out of a crowd? How many of you could pick a Middle Easterner from a crowd of white people even? If it was like a black guy, trying to play an East Asian, then ok. But the differences aren't that pronounced between a dark-haired white guy and a Middle Eastern guy beyond maybe a tan. Hell, Gyllenhaal, at least bulked himself up to look like he runs around on rooftops, unlike in Street Fighter, where they cast Kristen Kruek as Chun-Li and she couldn't even take the time to learn proper kung-fu technique.

On that note, this movie does not look to be nearly as abysmal as some of the other recent adaptations(Dead or Alive, Street Fighter, DragonBall,) If you're going to take it this seriously, then just don't see it, and save the rest of us from your bitching.

Ugh, haven't they learned yet?

Unless you are going to stay exact to the source, find actors who know what they're doing and actually bear a resemblance to the in-game characters, find stuntmen who can handle the stunts and look enough like the actors that nobody will know the difference (or better yet, train the actors themselves), and be willing to shell out a metric fuckton of money for proper special effects...

...you're not going to get far.

I predict that at least 55% of the audience at the premiere(s) will have never actually played any of the Prince of Persia games.