Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed? - Kotaku Comments

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

stranger — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:56:45 MST

Since when do Bruckheimer movies have storylines???

stranger

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

TempvsMortis — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:46:49 MST

It would be synopses. Synopsis, synopses. It would have to be synopsus to be synopsi.

TempvsMortis

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

YUYU — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:31:24 MST

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.

YUYU

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

MasterBalls — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:55:49 MST

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.

MasterBalls

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Wolfkin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:15:57 MST

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"

Wolfkin

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

excel_excel — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:37:03 MST

AHH!! Uwe Boll not directing?? It...doesn't feel right!

excel_excel

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

goldwings — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:22:28 MST

I can't argue with the REAL version, but I know this will still suck.

goldwings

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Roto13 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:47:28 MST

Let's hope they don't end up directly taking the Warrior Within plot for the sequel.

Roto13

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Dan Paranoir — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:21:23 MST

NOOOO! Chuck Norris NEVER playes with a DS. The DS playes FOR Chuck Norris cuz Chuck told it to do so! :)

Dan Paranoir

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

GuardianEarth — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:18:35 MST

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.

GuardianEarth

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Nullzero — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:36:49 MST

I swear every time I see that picture, I think it's Chuck Norris playing a DS.

Nullzero

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Shocky — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:33:26 MST

I smell incoming terrible game to movie adaptation.

Wait, I just smell the extreme amounts of explosions it's just the gunpowder, never mind.

Shocky

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

gamadaya — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:07:36 MST

@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.

gamadaya

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Don't folllow anyone. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:30:59 MST

The second synopsis needs more 'splosions.

Don't folllow anyone.

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

DigiMish — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:30:43 MST

@excaliburps:
EXACTLY the same, mind you. Eh, it can be done right, so all hope is not lost.

DigiMish

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

directhex — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:30:39 MST

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!

directhex

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

MechaTama31 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:22:02 MST

The plural of synopsis is synopses. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle! GO JOE!

MechaTama31

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

gamadaya — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:02:15 MST

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).

gamadaya

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Bernard McGraw — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:58:11 MST

@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.

Bernard McGraw

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

tralu — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:54:08 MST

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

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

osiris83 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:53:30 MST

No F-16 flying studboi prezidents?
I think I'll pass.

osiris83

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

excaliburps — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:53:19 MST

@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.=)

excaliburps

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

J-Fro — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:48:16 MST

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"

J-Fro

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

tralu — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:46:23 MST

@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.

tralu

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Garo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:45:56 MST

@excaliburps:
Yeah and that's great!!!

Garo

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

photoboy — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:43:18 MST

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 .

photoboy

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Asbestos_Underwear — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:41:21 MST

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.

Asbestos_Underwear

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

excaliburps — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:21:09 MST

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...

excaliburps

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Black-Dog-Howls — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:17:53 MST

One thing is for sure.

Blu-ray confirmed!

Black-Dog-Howls

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

Miksho — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:16:27 MST

@MasterOfPastures: Fuck that, Michael Bay better be STARRING.

Miksho

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

aldo_14 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:14:59 MST

Surely it'll be a mysterious Rocket Launcher rather than dagger for a Michael Bay film?

aldo_14

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

ggodo — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:14:46 MST

@OmiCom: It would be a great ride.

ggodo

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

MasterOfPastures — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:13:17 MST

If Kotaku's description is correct, then I can only guess that Michael Bay is either writing or directing.

MasterOfPastures

Prince of Persia Movie's Storyline Revealed?

OmiCom — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:11:37 MST

GO JERRY GO!

Do we get a Disney-style ride too at some theme park?!

OmiCom