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UPDATED! Jake Gyllenhaal Navigates The First Official ‘Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time’ Trailer
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Prince of Persia

Update: It seems like all Prince of Persia trailers were released at the same time, including International trailers. As it turns out, one of these International trailers was a little better than the trailer we got, so you can now see that below as well!

It’s been a long time coming, but the first official movie trailer for Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer‘s video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been unveiled by MySpace.

The trailer certainly makes its intents known immediately, and it’s pretty clear that movie-goers are either going to love it or hate it passionately. What really stands out is the visuals, which are without doubt very beautifully done. The big concern lies within the cast, which started the very moment that Jake Gyllenhaal was cast as a Persian prince. This now has secondary concerns attached to it because Jake is also going to be attempting an accent, as you’ll be able to tell, and also because it appears that he and his co-star Gemma Arterton don’t look like they have very convincing chemistry together. With a supporting cast that includes Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina, there is hope that these things can be overlooked, but Prince of Persia has a little mountain to climb if it wants to start winning our hearts and wallets.

Click on over to see the trailer for yourself and share with us your thoughts on the potential of this movie — a movie whose producers hope it will become a new mega-franchise similar to another franchise that they have: Pirates of the Caribbean.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been moving since 2004 when Bruckheimer heard a pitch that he loved and made the moves necessary to acquire the rights to the video game title. We still have a little ways to go before it kicks off the Summer blockbuster season on May 28, 2010, but this is your first chance to decide whether you’ll help it to be huge, or leave it for dead.

Once again, let us know in the comments what you think of the trailer and your thoughts on the movie as a whole!

Trailers


Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in HD

Trailer Park | MySpace Video

3 Comments »

  1. /cracksfingers

    Okay. It’s a pretty looking film. All Bruchheimer films have flare. I actually watched this right next to Avatar’s second trailer, which was also on IGN. Here’s why I’m mentioning that. They both suffer from the same disease (the trailers, not the films).

    I’m working on coining the term, because I haven’t seen it elsewhere (if someone has seen a good one, post it), but its a reoccurring problem with trailers. Right now, I’m calling it Show-The-Whole-Movie-in-2-Minute-itus. This disease runs rampant in the movie entertainment sphere, as the entertainment world feels the need to explain the broader plot of the film in detail. The problem with this is, most every exciting shot/scene/fight sequence is shown, ruining the surprise of the protagonist avoiding a temple falling on top of him while simultaneously sliding in a sand avalanche. Pretty sweet! Too bad I already saw it for free on a trailer on teh interwebs.

    In my opinion, this hurts those $12 ticket sales, but I doubt they care about my money. They want the money from the kids who can afford to go the theater every opening weekend and of course, fans of the Prince of Persia PS2 trilogy. I may still go see it, but I wish movie trailers would more ambiguously entice and make people ask intriguing questions, rather than show me a 2 minute version of the movie.

    Comment by Slipstream — November 3, 2009 @ 3:37 am

  2. Trailer enticed me enough to plan on seeing the movie in the theatres vs waiting for video.

    Comment by whall — November 3, 2009 @ 9:42 am

  3. Okay, so I’m a Gyllenhaal fan however, I’m not sure I buy him in this role. Maybe seeing the whole film will convince me. Seems like it would have been better to have a lesser known male lead in there. Definately not seeing the chemistry which could be annoying if they seem to force it. The visuals are amazing. I’m on the fence on this one.

    Comment by Hmmmm — November 3, 2009 @ 1:29 pm

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