Entertainment > Modern Iranian Film > PRINCE OF PERSIA FINDS DIRECTOR SAYS FANSITE BY DARIUS KADIVAR
Entertainment News Sites reveal director & Studio ArtWork of upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer production
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Director Michael Bay will helm the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film adaptation of Ubisoft Montreal's 2003 game Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, movie news site reports. The site claims to have confirmed with Walt Disney Studios that Bay is expected to direct, though the plan does not appear to be finalized. Bay is currently directing the live-action Transformers film adaptation. If he does sign on for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, shooting will commence after Transformers wraps, with a release set for summer 2009. Action movie mega-producer Bruckheimer frequently calls on Bay to man the director's post in his films, with the pair having previously collaborated on Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor.
Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, who also wrote and designed the under appreciated 1997 nonlinear adventure game The Last Express and has written and directed several film documentaries, provided the first draft of the film's screenplay. Jeffrey Nachmanoff, a screenwriter on The Big Gig and The Day After Tomorrow, is handling further revisions. The film's story is said to be loosely based on the game's, retaining the elements of the evil vizier seeking to control the sands of time, and the presence of the princess-turned-sidekick Farah. The adventurous prince will team up with the rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world …
The film’s executive producer is screen writer John August ( Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) who has collaborated with talented Tim Burton. Interestingly on his blog he has expressed interest in seeing the Prince eventually be played by an unknown Persian (Iranian) actor, and has expressed his knowledge that Persia is not Babylon, thus responding to some critics by fans on his blog in regard to the various choices for the role of the Prince. However according to Australian publication Hyper, Australian actor Charlie Clausen has signed on to play the lead role of the Persian prince; Clausen is also listed in the film's IMDb
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entry. No casting information however has been officially confirmed.
Given the online outrage expressed in regard to the latest Hollywood Block Buster 300 one can only suppose that Hollywood Studio’s may be sensitive to constructive suggestions in portraying the Persian Prince and the computer generated environment in which his adventures take place that is : Persia in the Middle Ages.
The Imdb online database suggested several Iranian actors for the role including unknown David K. Zandi and David Zahedian ( Pirates of the Caribbean) possible choices but Disney Studio never confirmed or denied the possibility. Some Iranian bloggers and film fans have suggested the desire to see Iranian Star Mohammad Reza Golzar in the title role who looks strikingly like the Ubisoft Computer generated Persian hero.
The movie is due in 2008 or 2009 latest and Pre-production is said to have started.
Prince of Persia is said to be one of the most ambitious Jerry Bruckheimer projects given the worldwide mega success of the Ubisoft Game and the increasing demand to see the screen adaptation take off.
Photo 1: Michael Bay
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