Young Dastan - How William Foster became the young Jake Gyllenhaal

As Prince of Persia gets ready for its first screening in front of the critics at ShoWest in Las Vegas later this week, Disney has released another featurette. In Young Dastan we see Willian Foster play a young Jake Gyllenhaal and living out his parkour dream of training along side the master, David Belle.



There isn't much Jake in this featurette, although there is a little, but there are some incredible shots of the most fabulous set and more hints at a great storyline. And for a moment we get a shot of Dastan and Dastan.



Mike Newell on Prince of Persia: 'It’s a classic tale of someone having their world turned upside down by extraordinary circumstances and having to use all their resources to come out the other side... I also loved the idea of going to a place I had never been before. We had the freedom to create this whole amazing world because no one knows exactly what it looked like. The time period is also one when people took stories very seriously, and there wasn’t a division between what was a fable and what was real. To me the story of the film feels like one of the great myths: something that’s quite simple in a way, but bites very deep and you remember it life-long.'



On Jake: 'You had to have someone of a certain age... The prince had to have a command of the screen, which Jake obviously does and is partly what makes Jake a very interesting actor. I looked around and Jake was the first name that came into my head. And though I did meet lots and lots of other actors, I kept coming back to him.'