Newell: Prince of Persia 'not a video game movie'

So he says...

We all remember that Super Mario Bros. was also not a video game movie.

There's no way it could have been. I've never seen bowser in a Mario game and thought, "Oh he looks like Dennis Hopper".

*claps*

Good move. I love Prince of Persia as much as the next guy, but it would suck ass if they tried to make the game into a movie. How do you translate 2 hours of trap jumps and epic sword fights...

WAIT A MINUTE!! NOOO!! DON'T CHANGE IT!!

Newell: Not a very 'good director'

I would like a job as that kind of assistant.

I wonder if we'll have bombed Iran by the time this is released?

Not a video game movie? EVERY movie that started as a video game is a video game movie, regardless of its actual contents.

By their logic, Alone In The Dark wasn't a video game movie, either... Or Resident Evil... Or... Heck, most of them. Very few of them keep the actual plot of the game... It's part of what makes them so bad!

Damn, from the headline I thought it was Gabe Newell unleashing some more huge rips on products. I feel sleighted.

This guy has one bizarre CV - Donnie Brasco, Four Weddings And A Funeral, a Harry Potter flick and Love In The Time Of Cholera?!

I have no particular bond with Prince Of Persia, but it could make for a great film... or a horrible effects-laden cheesefest like The Mummy.

I agree that any movie made using the likeness of a video game character and world is a video game movie. Just because it isn't adapted from the plot of the game doesn't make it something more regardless of what the ostentatious director says.

Dude, the title of your movie is the same as a Video Game, and your telling us it's "not a video game movie"?

save your breath.

Good, I am looking forward to this movie and I really don't want to it suck!

cleary Newell hasn't played the Prince of Persia games (hence the comment about his assistant), because if he had actually maybe *WATCHED his assistant play, he would see that the Prince of Persia Trilogy is one of the best narratives out there, especially part 3, which wraps up the series *PERFECTLY (well, wraps up the current Prince's tale perfectly).

he's obviously from the side of the fence that thinks that gaming can't possibly have good writing. i guess he's never seen or played Half Life (whole series), Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of Destiny, Second Sight, the Metal Gear Solid series, the Final Fantasy series, Mark of Kri (great Disney-esque feel and story, but for adults), and so many more i won't even bother to list them all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a decent movie, but they could have gone with a better director for this one. hell, any of the other Potter Directors would have been better choices. even Chris Columbus, who's good at establishing a light, fun atmosphere, before more heavy directors step in and take it to a darker tone; like Alfonso Cuaron, who i think, would fit the darker latter two installments of the Prince Trilogy (Robert Roderiguez and Guillermo Del Torro would be my other choices).

cleary Newell hasn't played the Prince of Persia games (hence the comment about his assistant), because if he had actually maybe *WATCHED his assistant play, he would see that the Prince of Persia Trilogy is one of the best narratives out there, especially part 3, which wraps up the series *PERFECTLY (well, wraps up the current Prince's tale perfectly).

he's obviously from the side of the fence that thinks that gaming can't possibly have good writing. i guess he's never seen or played Half Life (whole series), Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of Destiny, Second Sight, the Metal Gear Solid series, the Final Fantasy series, Mark of Kri (great Disney-esque feel and story, but for adults), and so many more i won't even bother to list them all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a decent movie, but they could have gone with a better director for this one. hell, any of the other Potter Directors would have been better choices. even Chris Columbus, who's good at establishing a light, fun atmosphere, before more heavy directors step in and take it to a darker tone; like Alfonso Cuaron, who i think, would fit the darker latter two installments of the Prince Trilogy (Robert Roderiguez and Guillermo Del Torro would be my other choices).