You could be the Prince(ss) of Persia and Jake's Zodiac dream

The early publicity for the Prince of Persia movie coincides, I think we can say intentionally, with all of the excitement surrounding the release of the new PoP game, which reaches various parts of the world, and on various platforms, during the first two weeks of December. The imminent launch of the game was celebrated last week in San Francisco, an event which included kebabs, hookahs and princes and princesses of Persia dangling from the ceiling. [I love this picture below and there is a better than 50-50 chance that you will see it more often than you wish over the coming months.]


The game's producer Ben Mattes has been discussing the game with various sites and, now and again, we get to hear about the film. The question of whether we may get to see a game version of the film, complete with a Jake Gyllenhaal Prince Dastan, has been discussed here before, and the chances of this appear to have been increased by one particular interview with Ben.


When Ben was directly asked if there would ever be a game featuring the old prince, the one much loved from Sands of Time, he replied: 'So yeah, I think the best I can say is 'never say never'," he continued. "You know, [the film's producer/director] Jerry Bruckheimer [and] Disney, it's a pretty powerful attractor in terms of drawing eyeballs to the Prince of Persia franchise. I think it would be negligent of Ubisoft and/or some other company to not kind of capitalize on that by creating a videogame that kind of goes along with that. In my opinion, it's an appendix -- for me, the movie would be an appendix to a story that was already told. And the story we're telling now is the future of the franchise" So, Prince of Persia: The Movie: The Game? Looks like Ubisoft or "some other company" is looking into it, although this is pure speculation. Bear in mind, also, that the move has been pushed backed to 2010, plenty of time for Ubi to get a tie-in game together.' You can see an interview with Ben here.


I'm so bad at playing PoP, I can already imagine the guilt I'd feel if I sent Jake's prince plummeting to the depths of a spikey pit... New videos have been released to publicise the new game and you can see more here. This is my favourite:



A visitor to the Morocco set back in August has now posted their picture on Flickr. I like the dogs...


Jake's nightmare

A couple of days ago, I posted a little piece on Jake's leading lady Catherine Keener. In this interview below (click to embiggen) there is a little more about two others, Emmy Rossum and Chloe Sevigny. It includes one of my favourite quotes from Jake in relation to Zodiac: 'Mark and Chloe and I once took a nap together in a trailer and we all had a nightmare... And we all held hands. It really helped.' Classic Gyllenism. And I can't help agreeing with the lovely Emmy: 'He's intelligent, relaxed and funny. Really charismatic... I just think he's incrediby warm and funny - and really handsome, plain and simple.'


Includes pictures from IHJ, links and scan by WDW.