Michael Bay Directing 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time'
by Rainier on April 16, 2007 @ 4:31 a.m. PDT | Filed under News
Independent Entertainment News has gotten the scoop that Jerry Bruckheimer finally settled on a director for the movie adaptation based on Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Michael Bay, currently finishing The Transformers, will direct, and the movie is currently set to be released Summer 2009. PoP creator Jordan Mechner wrote the first draft of the screenplay with subsequent drafts by Jeffrey Nachmanoff.
As a kid, one of my favorite games was the PC classic, Prince of Persia. It was a crushingly hard and deeply unforgiving game that nonetheless manages to be addicting enough that I memorized every pixel of it. A variety of sequels have ranged from fun to terrible, but few could ever match the enjoyment of the original Prince of Persia. When they announced Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, I wasn't expecting much and found myself blown away by some of the finest action-puzzle gameplay)
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Prince of Persia's revival on the console market was nothing short of fantastic. Some might argue that Ubisoft's gem of a game reinvented the 3-D action platformer, and they wouldn't be entirely wrong in that regard. It's difficult to think of many titles that haven't borrowed at least some of Prince of Persia's ideas, and the Sands of Time trilogy was among some of the best titles in the last generation. Yet what a lot of people forgot is that Prince of Persia's reboot also included a)
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