• 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.

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

• This is based on a game. The character in the game had a British accent. He looked pretty much like Jake Gyllenhaal. If you have issues with this, take it up with Ubisoft.

• 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?

• Wow. That is pathetic. Guess some Hollywood producer or writer was high on this whole pantheon craze with all these movies and comics with Greek gods lately. Really, what the hell is it with everyone jumping onto Greek mythology this year? I'm guessing maybe this is going to be so five minutes ago and Norse myth is gonnna be hot when Marvel's Thor comes around.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

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

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

• And I still haven't seen Avatar.... it's true....

• I don't know how I'm going to pay for all these awesome 2010 movies! Scott Pilgrim The A-Team Kick Ass Iron Man 2 Tron Legacy Prince of Persia Alice in Wonderland The Losers The Last Airbender AND TOY STORY 3, WOOT!

• Get to the choppah!

• ....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-

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

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

• 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.

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

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