Prince of Persia heads to Morocco for film shoot

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Mar 10th 2008 at 10:00PM }

The transition between video game and film is typically no different than one of those trap-laden corridors Ubisoft's princely protagonist dashes through on a regular basis. Though we yearn to say otherwise, Disney's Prince of Persia: Sands of Time film hasn't shown to be particularly adept at running the gauntlet. Coupling mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer's involvement with director Mike Newell's promise (of having his assistant play through the game) leads us to believe that the crew has fallen into the very first pit and succumbed to one of those spinning blade thingies.

Still, we'd best give them a chance to finish shooting in Morocco this June, which Variety notes will have a positive effect on the North African film business. Scenes for the Jeffrey Nachmanoff- and Jordan Mechner-written project will also be filmed at the UK's Pinewood Shepperton studios. Cross your fingers and hope for something more than a literal explosion of bullet-time sword fights, churlish chariot chases and liberal lingering on Farah's faucets.

Tags: Disney, Jerry-Bruckheimer, Jordan-Mechner, Mike-Newell, PoP, Prince-of-Persia, PrinceofPersia, Sands-of-Time

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Ross @ Mar 11th 2008 1:12AM

If this movie isn't a flop like the Doom film I'll definitely go see it! I've been a bit iffy about seeing video game films since that.

Also, Egoraptor does a fair bit of voice acting for me, so as a regular reader of Joystiq I always get a bit of a laugh when you make an "Awesome" reference.

Batzarro @ Mar 10th 2008 10:59PM

Morocco Mole is go.

TomCo @ Mar 10th 2008 11:12PM

I love the "AWESOME" series of spoofs.

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Fegge @ Mar 10th 2008 11:37PM

It's promising that they're shooting at Pinewood. That's a quality studio in which amongst others both Alien and Aliens were shot. Very nice indeed :)

david @ Apr 24th 2008 9:46AM

it could turn out to be a good trilogy. i enjoyed the game storyline a lot. as long as they don't use orlando bloom. deprived of facial or vocal expression he's got to be the laimest actor out there, and ruining a prefectly good fantasy story with the constant presence of such a bad actor would proof not only tasteless but also a stupid investment, for they would have better luck in filling up a movie theater with a good unknown actor then with a world wide famous sh**y actor.