Friday, 17 July 2009

First official portrait of Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia

Entertainment Weekly has the first official photograph of Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan, Prince of Persia. It's a beauty.


EW reports: '"I'm tired of taking myself so seriously," says the actor, who found himself sword-fighting, climbing walls, and jumping off of buildings as part of the prince's quest to find an enchanted dagger and turn back time. "It's nice when a stuntman turns to you and is like, 'Actors don't normally do this.'"

Meanwhile, a possible clue to the Prince of Persia's appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con next week is that a number of Twitters saw Jake in the Disney offices in LA yesterday.

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22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Swoon! :) He's beautiful!

Anonymous said...

Wow! The prince looks really good! I am so ready for a not so serious Jake! I wish the picture was bigger so we could see all the costume details better.

Have a good day everyone!

Olympia

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi Anon! Jake looks gorgeous!

Hey Olympia :D Hopefully more will follow now and we can get a closer look. I ready for a not so serious Jake too :DD

Anonymous said...

I think a less-than-serious Jake is a good thing once in awhile, too. He looks amazing. I hope he'll be at the Comic-con panel, sounds like fun! Some of these comic books artists are amazing, I like Niko Henrichon from what I've been reading, can't wait to see each artist's contribution to the graphic novel.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi Anon - this picture makes me want more and more! I hope we get something from Comic-Con. I agree about these artists. I'm quite a fan myself and I would have thought the very best will be working on the PoP book.

get real said...

Woohoo....nice!!! Love the poster..Swoon indeed. :D


That is one good thing about Twitter..sightings! ;)

Have a great Friday everyone.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

I love it, Get Real! So, so sexy :D

That is definitely the upside to twitter :D

Yay, the weekend...!

get real said...

And we have news (thanks to Gyllenbabble) that Jake was in the NY Times crossword puzzle! 36 across. :)

Hope everyone is having good weather...super hot in NYC today..

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Jake should get that one right :D

Could do with some of that superheat - storms, thunder, rain here - all flippin day :(

Zodiac said...

Hello!:)

This poster should bigger. Jake looks good. Waiting for more.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Zodiac! How are you doing? I hope you're having a good summer :D I reckon we'll get a bigger version soon and we'll get much, much more. So good to see you *)

Monica said...

Good night, wet dark!

He's amazing!

Anonymous said...

What a delicious way to start the weekend!

*waves at WDW*

Thank you!!
Paola

Carol said...

What a great start to my Saturday:)

This is a lovely picture and Jake does look gorgeous in it. I'm already impatient for more:) Fingers crossed he will make an appearance at Comic-Con next week.

Hope everyone has a good weekend:)

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Good morning everyone! I think all the excitement knocked me out - I slept for 12 hours solid. Coffee, I need coffee...

Morning Monica :D He is amazing and it's great to see the buzz around the net. We all want Jake back in the theatres :)

Waves at Paola!! Good to see you and I'm glad PoP Jake has made the start to your weekend :D

Morning Carol! I am so impatient, it's not funny :D I can't help wondering what's going to happen at Comic-Con. And the Imaginarium will be there too, and Ironman 2 etc. Surely there's room for a little PoP...

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Anonymous said...

Yes, ComicCon should be pretty exciting this year. Have a great weekend, all. :)

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Definitely, Anon - I hope you have a good weekend too :D

paulh said...

That is definitely a great picture! All decked out in the finest armor, and ready to defend the weak and innocent! Wonderful!

You can read so much into the Prince's face and eyes. Jake was always so great at expressiveness. This is why Disney wanted him for this project.

It's not at all the kind of genre that I like, but throw in enough exotic fabrics and metalwork and beautiful horses,and I m,ight very well enjoy the spectacle. I hope the film will have some great banquet scenes, because then I can imagine the scents of tagines and couscous and exotic brews. :-)

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Hi there Paul! It's a great picture - and it makes me wonder what's just happened before this scene. So exciting. There is so much going on in the face, as you say.

I love the world of the Arabian Nights and Aladdin. So exotic. I'm sure there'll be a banqueting scene :D

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Morning all! Tipping it down out there... please come back summer... :D

Jake was seen at the Coldplay show in LA last night :D Sounds good to me.

Violet Hill said...

Yay! Love them.

Wet Dark and Wild said...

Me too :D

Just got back from Harry Potter - thoroughly enjoyed it! Quite dark and grown up.