Jakey-boy seems to be doing a very good Richard Armitage impression. Should have got him - would have been cheaper for The Bruck.

agreed, Rob. What happened to the times when Hollywood would be daring and risk on unknowns instead of familiar faces. They could have found a good-looking middle eastern actor to play this part.

They weren't going to cast an actual person that's Persian. Persians are from Iran and they tend to be really hairy.

I've been pretending you were brilliant and funny for a long time. BAZINGO!

....i nerdgasm...

okay, yes, gaylen-whazit may not be the best choices around for the role, but as long as the rest of the movie is drenched in the awesomeness that is the original game, i think we can overlook a few transgressions, right?

incidentally, this one is certainly NOT helping my summer movie budget. Better get crankin' on those overtime pays -grumblegrumble-

Get to the choppah!

I wouldn't say it looks true to the game, I'd say it looks true to the game's sequels

To be fair, Jake does look true to the game, and the character in the game didn't look Persian either.

It bothered me that they mentioned "the gods." Persians, whether as Zoroastrians or Muslims, have been monotheists for thousands of years. Someone clearly did not care enough to do the bare minimum of research on Persian culture (see also, the lily white cast).

I think the movie looks good, yeah jake is about as persian as I look like a wookie but in the end if this movie doesn't suck out loud I will be happy. I was more excited about the Avatar :LAB trailer then I was about this.

Is it just me or did they give him a British accent? Cause as if it's bad enough that he's nowhere near Persian, a country we're practically at war with, we also have to have the actor slop on a British accent just to make it all the more surreal.

A lot of you complaining haven't actually played the Sands of Time trilogy, have you? Prince WAS white in that, and he DID have a bit of a British accent. It ain't true to life,but it's true to the game, and that's what we usually want from a game based movie, isn't it?

lol I'm persian and no joke im white and look like jake..not all persians are brown, we are considered Caucasian anyway

Okay, I understand the excitement of a PoP movie. The games were (mostly) pretty awesome with (mostly) cool storylines, and the last thing I would want to do (mostly) is crush peoples hopes.

The problem is, most of the folks who are getting all damp over this, or even hoping it won't suck, seem to have missed the second shot of the promo. Contained in that shot is a thing that is the very antithesis of quality and not-completely-insulting-audience's-intelligence in flim making: the words "Jerry" and "Bruckheimer".

Now I'm not saying JB is the greatest hack to have ever spewed fourth from the darkest, most twisted bowels of film making hell, far from it. All I'm saying is I have never seen a JB project that wasn't either:
a) deeply, deeply flawed in many, many ways,
b) so fucking stupid it made my brain hemorrhage,
c) the epitome of contrived, pedantic, formulaic, simplistic and manipulative,
d) somehow leaving me with a strange sense of having just been raped, or
e) some combination of the above.

So to summarize: JB the biggest hack of all time? No. JB a high god in the Pantheon of Hackery whose mere presence turns a gleaming pile of gold into a steaming pile of un-fossilized corprolites? Abso-fucking-lutely! Any chance of this film being honestly good? Well, according to Quantum Mechanics, pretty much ANYTHING is possible. Just don't bet your still-carded Vlix action figure in mint condition packaging with it's peg-hole unpunched on it.