ROTTEN TOMATOES: Michael Bay To Direct "Prince of Persia" Vid Game Pic

Michael Bay To Direct "Prince of Persia" Vid Game Pic

by Jen Yamato | April 15, 2007

If you were at all worried about who Disney might nab to direct the Ubisoft video game adaptation, you can rest easy. Michael Bay is on the job!

Robert Sanchez over at IESB.net shared the scoop, naming Bay as director on the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced project and confirming a projected summer 2009 release date. IESB also points out that the Bay-Bruckheimer alliance has produced past blockbusters like "The Rock," "Armageddon," and both "Bad Boys," meaning this "Prince" will surely be as big as they come.

Image from the "Prince of Persia: Warrior Within" vid game

The film is adapted from the "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" video game, and will follow the titular hero, "an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world" (per IMDB).

According to the report, studio heads hope that Bay will head to work on "Persia" as soon as he's done with a little summer project about warring robots.

Script comes courtesy of video game creator Jordan Mechner, who also wrote the three installments of the game series; Jeffrey Nachmanoff ("The Day After Tomorrow") also worked on revisions.

Click here for the full report at IESB, plus peeks at early concept art.

Source: IESB, IMDB

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dracus writes:
on Apr 15 2007 03:49 AM

There's something very funny about this, just not sure what it is yet.

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alsanali writes:
on Apr 15 2007 04:28 AM

That.... actually might turn out to be pretty cool.

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TheBlackGuy writes:
on Apr 15 2007 04:56 AM

As happy as i am to see this come to the big screen, i'm angry over the choice in director

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se7en85 writes:
on Apr 15 2007 06:37 AM

at least the picked a named director for once (for better or worse)

this may turn out to be a good videogame movie.

also with videogame movies, as long as it isn't Uwe Boll. I'm happy and i'll take Bay over Boll any day

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Mr. Kong writes:
on Apr 15 2007 06:51 AM

The question is... R or PG-13?

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Xhrix writes:
on Apr 15 2007 07:01 AM

As long as some Iranian digitary condemns the movie, we know it will be a hit.

I personally have a soft spot in my heart for these games, so I would probably go see it regardless of the director...Boll excluded of course

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unbreakable_samurai writes:
on Apr 15 2007 08:44 AM

This could be pretty sweet, a big budget Bay version actually has me looking foreward to this now.

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lavatory love machine writes:
on Apr 15 2007 08:55 AM

damn, I made a blood oath to never see another michael bay movie, but I love those games, I guess it'll depend on the tomatometer

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arendr writes:
on Apr 15 2007 09:01 AM

if Ahmdedinejad condemns this movie, at least he'll have a good reason......because Michael Bay is directing it.

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murray84 writes:
on Apr 15 2007 09:41 AM

everyone always complains about Bay..yet his movies make a ridiculous amount of money..somebody must liike him

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FernandoDANTE writes:
on Apr 15 2007 09:53 AM

In reply to this comment (#861449)
[b]EEEEEEEWWWWWW[/b]
I wanna puke. If Michael Bay is directing it, there's no hope for this movie. The first Prince of Persia game was a work of art - now Mr. Bay and Mr. Bruckheimer are going to ruin it with their gigantic budgets, NOT proportional to their directing abilities. Mr. Bay can't make a decent action scene, for ****'s sake. Bay feels the need to cut every shot under 4 seconds, which makes me want to puke even more.

Children of Men. There's a great movie. Its 6-minute-long action senes with NO CUTS are like the biggest "screw you, Michael Bay" on Earth.

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calbear526 writes:
on Apr 15 2007 09:55 AM

In reply to this comment (#861450)
[b]There's not always somebody liking him...[/b]
"The Island" made about $3.58 in the United States.

What's more, that's probably his best film outside of "The Rock", save for the action catastrophe it morphed into the moment the two escaped from the facility. For fourty-five minutes, the film had me tricked into thinking that it was a great film.

However, don't get me started on the product placement in "The Island"...

Good grief.

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Silentdon writes:
on Apr 15 2007 10:37 AM

[b]Eh[/b]
I love the second Prince of Persia game, it is too bad they don't start with that one instead of the first. The Prince is darker in the second. It is an overall darker game. What someone needs to do is make a movie based on "GOD OF WAR". That would be worth seeing.

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Kosmo Yagkoto writes:
on Apr 15 2007 11:23 AM

[b]Coming out of the Closet[/b]
I didn't know that the Prince of Persia was gay, cause this movie is going to suck some big sausage.

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zbbrox writes:
on Apr 15 2007 11:23 AM

[b]$ = Quality[/b]
Which is why Britney Spears has made some of the best music ever, Titanic is the greatest film of all time, and Microsoft makes all the best computer products. Right.

Bay sucks. Internet porn makes a lot of money, too, but that doesn't make it art.

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blank blank writes:
on Apr 15 2007 12:23 PM

how is bay going to work in his very own hitech car/flying motorcycle/space shuttle chase scene in prince of persia? this seems like a weird fit because when you think micheal bay you think slick looking high tech nonesense like armageddon or transformers (please dont start, as good or bad as transformers might be, it is the definintion of slick looking high tech nonesense)... the lack of technology in prince of persia makes me think twice about this fit... but whatever.

my main concern is who will they cast as the prince? lets hope they actually cast a persian or at least a middle eastener, not a brazilian or some southern american, like they did with xerxes in 300 ( i realize that xerxes was supposed to be really weird, but he did sound spanish and nothing like persian)

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aknddon3 writes:
on Apr 15 2007 12:45 PM

In reply to this comment (#861455)
Proof? Why does Bay suck? Come one nerd. Does he make movies that entertain people? Yes then he does not suck and does what a REAL director is supposed to do. But of course on the internet you losers always have an opinion, You sound like those little kids in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which you probably hated because it made fun of your kind.

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arendr writes:
on Apr 15 2007 12:49 PM

In reply to this comment (#861456)
the answer to your question is that he will use flying carpets for the chase sequences. i bet you didn't know that rugs make gigantic explosions when they crash at over 15MPH.

and to your second question, the answer is that he will cast martin lawrence as the prince. "aww, hell no! i ain't wearing that turban!"

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ksduded writes:
on Apr 15 2007 12:49 PM

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I will vote for Hrithik Roshan, he is the best actor to fit this part (he is an Indian though)

http://utopianvision.co.uk/images/lib/897/1024x768/hrithik-roshan.jpg
http://utopianvision.co.uk/images/lib/241/800x600/hrithik-roshan.jpg

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calbear526 writes:
on Apr 15 2007 01:30 PM

In reply to this comment (#861457)
[b]Hey aknddon3...[/b]
That's exactly what I would say if my argument sucked, too.

Well done.

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