Kotaku
Everyone's favorite non-gaming producer Jerry Bruckheimer is always ready to blow shit up. This time, he's ready to light that sandy fuse with his film adaptation of Prince of Persia. Haven't heard too much about this project — save for that Four Weddings and a Funeral director Mike Newell is attached. Site Collider has apparently a handful of film synopsises (synopsi?) for upcoming projects. Included is Prince of Persia, which goes something like this:
(If this is true, there might be spoilers.)
Passing through India en route to Azad, King Sharaman and his son, the Prince of Persia, defeat the powerful Maharajah of India with the promise of honor and glory. After looting the city and capturing a giant hourglass full of sand, a mysterious dagger, and the Maharajah's daughter Farah along with other treasures, they continue to Azad. A dying Vizier, who had betrayed the Maharajah and aided King Sharaman in return for a share of the spoils, demands to have the dagger, as he was promised his choice of the Maharajah's treasures. But Sharaman refuses to take thedagger from his son, who captured it first. So the Vizier, who wishes to harness the power of the sands in the hourglass for himself, making him an immortal god and giving him control over time itself, tricks the Prince into opening the hourglass. When the Prince uses the dagger to unleash the Sands of Time from the hourglass, the Sands destroy the kingdom and turn all living beings into hideous sand creatures. Only the Prince, the Vizier, and Princess Farah, the kidnapped daughter of the Maharajah, remain unchanged due to their possessions; the Prince's dagger, the Vizier's staff, and Farah's medallion.
We totally do not believe this at all. The actual synopsis is something more like this:
Passing through AN EXPLODING India en route to Azad, King Sharaman and his son, the Prince of Persia, defeat the powerful Maharajah of India with A FERRARI SCAGLIETTI AND A CASE OF C-4 WITH the promise of honor and glory. After looting the city WITH C-4 and capturing a giant hourglass full of DETONATING sand, a mysterious EXPLODING dagger, and the Maharajah's STRIPPER daughter Farah along with other EXPLODING treasures, they continue to Azad. A dying Vizier INJURED WHEN THE FERRARI FLIPPED OVER AND EXPLODED, who had betrayed the Maharajah and aided King Sharaman in return for a share of the spoils AND SPORTS CARS, demands to have the dagger AND A FERRARI F430, as he was promised his choice of the Maharajah's treasures AND SPORTS CARS. But Sharaman refuses to take the dagger from his son, who captured it first FROM AN EXPLOSION. So the Vizier, who wishes to harness the EXPLODING power of the sands in the hourglass for himself, making him an immortal god and giving him control over time itself WITH DYNAMITE, tricks the Prince into opening the hourglass, MAKING IT BLOW UP. When the Prince uses the dagger to unleash the Sands of Time from the hourglass, CAUSING THE THE FERRARI F430 TO FLIP OVER AND, WELL, YOU KNOW, the Sands destroy the kingdom and turn all living beings into hideous sand creatures. Only the Prince, the Vizier, and POLE-DANCING Princess Farah, the kidnapped STRIPPER daughter of the Maharajah, remain unchanged due to their possessions; the Prince's dagger, the Vizier's staff, and Farah's medallion AND EXPLOSIONS.
Hope they get Nic Cage for this one!
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GO JERRY GO!
Do we get a Disney-style ride too at some theme park?!
If Kotaku's description is correct, then I can only guess that Michael Bay is either writing or directing.
@OmiCom: It would be a great ride.
Surely it'll be a mysterious Rocket Launcher rather than dagger for a Michael Bay film?
@MasterOfPastures: Fuck that, Michael Bay better be STARRING.
One thing is for sure.
Blu-ray confirmed!
Is it just me or does the plot is exactly the same as the first current-gen POP game? (POP:Sands of time)
From what I've played, this is exactly what happened in the first few moments in the game...
Hmm. Sounds to me someone just took the story line of Sands of Time and made it into a "movie news". I bet there will be lots of changes screwing it up.
Since we can't show a muslim army trashing India, the plot rather revolves around Farah asking for the help of the prince sending him a mysterious dagger. upon investigation, the beefcake prince hooks up with Farah after 15 minutes of the movie. We experience subtle romance until minute 45 when the Vizir finally shows up and kidnaps her for ritual sacrifice. The prince fails to prevent this in a 10 minute chase action sequence. The prince continues to track the vizir and en route meets a duo of comedic sidekicks screwing everything up. After blowing up lots of stuff with lots of gunpowder and the help of a big black guy, the prince defeats the Vizir and we leave the cinema wishing Uwe Boll made this move, so we would at least had no hope in the first place.
Masses will be happy, box office will be happy, fanboys will be disgruntled since Sands of Time has one of the best endings ever, yet not one Jerry Bruckheimer would attach to one of his movies.
There's no way the plot to Sands of Time will make it to the screen as unmolested as that, it must be someone who's just read the plot to the first game and is passing it off as insider info on the film.
Still, it would be nice if they did use that plot .
@excaliburps:
Yeah and that's great!!!
@excaliburps:
Tee hee. It's previous gen now, silly. :)
I heard Jordan Mechner is getting deeply involved in the creation of the film, so I'm happy that the creator of the series will have the movie that he envisioned, at least.
Prince of Persia - Directed by Michael Bay and starring Will Smith!
When the Prince uses the dagger to unleash the Sands of Time from the hourglass, the Sands destroy the kingdom and turn all living beings into hideous sand creatures...
Camera cuts to Will Smith: "Aww haaiill naw! This shit just got REAL"
@Garo:
Yeah I think it's a good story. But as we all know, Some or most fans will bitch and moan about "it's too predictable" "it didn't come up with any new ideas" etc etc. And vice-versa
@tralu:
Ah yeah I know =). If I said it was the plot from the first PoP game, I knew someone would correct me and say "uh the first PoP games was released on a calculator noob!" Hehe...Plus they are making it for the current-gen systems.=)
No F-16 flying studboi prezidents?
I think I'll pass.
I also read a synopsis of the movie a few months ago that sounds a little bit more feasible as the plot of the story, since the Prince actually had a name and things in the script, as well as a reviewer who claimed to know nothing about SoT recapping the game, albeit in a slightly skewed way. Besides as a few things being mixed around that PoP purists would probably be angry about (OMG NOT EVERYONE THE PRINCE SPEAKS TO IS A SAND ZOMBIE), I thought it was interesting and at least worthy of a read.
Besides, it claims the movie will make heavy use of parkour. PARKOUR. YES.
Link:
[www.latinoreview.com]
@tralu: Reckon parkour was a no-brainer. For some reason, even though EVERY FILM IN THE WORLD now features parkour it's still awesome somehow.
Anyway, that synopsis sounds WAY too faithful to the original story to actually be real.
Jerry, for the love of god, don't fuck this up. It's not hard to fuck it up either. It's a really good story, plus it was already done for you. All you have to do is focus on not making it retarded. Besides, it's not like you're making the DBZ movie here (those poor basterds were DOA).
The plural of synopsis is synopses. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle! GO JOE!
There's plenty of good material they can use from the game, including [spoiler] and [spoiler]! And the hot bit at the end where you [spoiler] [spoiler] senseless!
@excaliburps:
EXACTLY the same, mind you. Eh, it can be done right, so all hope is not lost.
The second synopsis needs more 'splosions.
@MechaTama31:
And the other half is a bloody shoot out with Cobra that will leave half your team either dead or in the hospital. Actaully, that sounds like it's a little more than just half.
I smell incoming terrible game to movie adaptation.
Wait, I just smell the extreme amounts of explosions it's just the gunpowder, never mind.
I swear every time I see that picture, I think it's Chuck Norris playing a DS.
Is it me or is that synopsis actually accurate to the game? Wow, a video game movie that may actually use the game's Goddamn story.
NOOOO! Chuck Norris NEVER playes with a DS. The DS playes FOR Chuck Norris cuz Chuck told it to do so! :)
Let's hope they don't end up directly taking the Warrior Within plot for the sequel.
I can't argue with the REAL version, but I know this will still suck.
AHH!! Uwe Boll not directing?? It...doesn't feel right!
That's not a spoiler that's basically the plot of Prince of Perisa: Sands of Time. There's nothing in that synopsis I couldn't have read from GameFAQs. If they're following the game that closely I hope they have missteps. Dying in PoP was hilarious:
"No no, that's not how it went"
Personally I don't believe this; one of the people working on the movie said they weren't using the sand monsters, as they wanted it to be more of a swashbuckler instead of a zombie movie featuring the Prince.
If it's packed full of Parkour, I wouldn't mind seeing it, even if this isn't the real plot of the movie. But I hope it is.
The explody-version, of course.
It would be synopses. Synopsis, synopses. It would have to be synopsus to be synopsi.
Since when do Bruckheimer movies have storylines???
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