I'm pretty sure that in the first, original "Prince of Persia" game, the protagonist wasn't a prince either, but rather a street urchin who'd fallen in love with a princess...

I'm pretty sure the protagonist of Jordan Mechner's original Prince of Persia wasn't a prince either, but rather a (blond, blue-eyed, surprisingly enough) street urchin who'd fallen in love with a princess, and Mechner's apparently writing or at least overseeing the screenplay...

More and more, Star Trek is appearing as one of the few bright spots in recent nerd culture movie adaptations.

What the fuck is this bullshit? If there's any storyline that DOESN'T have to be mangled in the screen adaptation, it's Prince of Persia. This is like... live action Aladdin but shit.

Wait, wait, wait, wait...wait.

You mean Larry the Cable Guy isn't going to be in the movie?

Count me out.

This film needs Shaquille O'Neal as a wise-cracking genie.

This is like... live action Aladdin but shit.

Actually, Disney's Aladdin film might be considered an animated Prince of Persia rip-off to some extent, given that in the original game, which was released in 1989, your primary antagonist is an evil vizier named Jaffar... :p

What the fuck? What is wrong with the youngest son of the king? Seriously, how does that pigeon hold you into a role? He could still be honorable. Fuck this movie, actually fuck hollywood.

Or we could all just, y'know, brush up on our literature and realize that Aladdin is just one of the "Thousand Nights" stories that are ancient, and that the Prince of Persia is also very similar to the same story.

Irony: In the Genie's intro song in Aladdin, he mentions the Thousand Nights. I find it hilarious that a character in the Thousand Nights is referencing the Thousand Nights. I need to show this to someone who can't stand paradoxes.

So they are making a movie based off of the PoP Sands of Time series the only set of PoP games that actually had the Prince as a real Prince from the start.

So how do they handle the simple story of Prince fucks up and makes a ton of sand zombies, falls in love wins the battle but loses the war untill the gets to the end of the thrid game?

They change everything but the name of the movie. I mean really there was no need to change anything, Next Bruckhimer is going to get rights to Star Trek 12 and in the new movie, Kirk is a Klingon Spock is a mermaid and the enterprise is a moving van, but there is a awesome 30 min sword fight inside of a water wheel, that they were moving to Mr. Kahns house the rich mayor who may or may not be involved with the mob

@ arsenal

I wanna see that movie :)

Jake Gyllenhaal SMASH!!

@Anonymous

Actually, before either Prince of Persia or Aladdin, Jaffar was the name of the villain of the classic movie The Thief of Baghdad.

And before that it was a common name for many of the heroes in the original Arabian Nights legends.

For instance, Jaffar was the name of the grand vizier of the heroic Sultan Caliph Haroun-al-Rashid, who ruled wisely and well from Baghdad in ancient Persia. This Jaffar was probably the only vizier in any story every who WASN'T a treacherous backstabber.

@Anonymous

Actually, before either Prince of Persia or Aladdin, Jaffar was the name of the villain of the classic movie The Thief of Baghdad.

And before that it was a common name for many of the heroes in the original Arabian Nights legends.

For instance, Jaffar was the name of the grand vizier of the heroic Sultan Caliph Haroun-al-Rashid, who ruled wisely and well from Baghdad in ancient Persia. This Jaffar was probably the only vizier in any story ever who WASN'T a treacherous backstabber.

Even though the original PoP is the storyline of the street urchin, I'm fairly sure that's not what Bruckheimer had in mind when they did this film.
Most likely it'll only be PoP in title only and have nothing to do with the either games or Aladdin. In fact the storyline may just follow the king picks up a street urchin and like him more than his two sons and puts him next in line for the throne by marrying him off to a princess but the brothers have other plans kill the father, throw the "prince" in a far away jail, and kidnap the girl forcing the "prince" to save the day. And at some point one of the brothers (most likely the youngest) will start to feel guilty and get killed by the older brother for being soft or takes the deathblow meant for the Jakey.
You know, basic Hollywood formula.

This is the second greatest geek travesty I've heard about today. Second only to the news that they're actually making a Lost Boys 3. Arrrrghfhkjhggh.

There was a Lost Boys 2?

Unfortunately, yes. A straight-to-DVD sham of a movie that managed to piss on everything that was good and holy about the original.

Now apparently they feel the need to inflict more horrors on us by creating a third. Excellent. Well done, Warner!

All they would've needed to show to make us happy is acrobatics, any form of time-manipulation (slow-mo would've been fine), and even the slightest sense of atmosphere/ originality. Triple fail.

Crap to the P.

Don't worry, he'll be a prince when he marries Princess Jasmine at the end of the movie.

Comming soon:
CSI:
PRINCE OF PERSIA
staring Steven Segal

But why Jake Gyllenhaal? why not Brad Pitt?
@ Arsenal;
Horrible thought for if and when Bruckhimer get star trek 12;
Jake Gyllenhaal as Kahn.
Cuz that's what he looks like in this video Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán r.i.p.) from Star Trek II.

So someone needs to take out BruckHimer

I just can't stop thinking of him as that Donnie Darko guy, man he seriously buffed up O_O

So, I shouldn't see Lost Boys 2, then?

Cry Little Sister indeed.

Oy vey. I'm sorry I even bothered to make the comparison to Aladdin since, yes, you're right, the two share some pretty common source material from the Arabian Nights tales.

My point is that the whole "street urchin" thing is irritating to me since this movie is evidently supposed to be about the Sands of Time, and yet there appears to be not even the remotest RESEMBLANCE to Sands of Time. The Princess isn't named Farah, the Vizier isn't even part of the plot, it's not taking place in Azad, and I don't see any zombies. Fuck this bullshit, Hollywood.

Plus, I'm taking it just a bit personally since Prince of Persia really is one of my favorite game franchises of all time, and I love the story behind it.