It's (pretty much) official! Two years after the option to make the movie was bought by Marvel producers, the Arad Brothers (Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man adaptations), film production company Legendary Pictures has picked up the job of actually making it. A major company like Legendary buying the rights means that the movie will absolutely go into pre-production and will likely get fast-tracked within the next couple of years. If things don't go terribly, terribly wrong, that is.Faith in video game films is still somewhat low, but with the recent release of Prince of Persia, that might change! Let's also keep in mind that we have the Arad Brothers (every Marvel movie since Spider-Man) and Legendary Pictures in on this (The Dark Knight, 300, Watchmen, Where The Wild Things Are, and...Beerfest) so this could be a definite winner if things are done right. What director are we gonna see at the helm? Which actor (actress?) is going to play a certain Spectre? And what of the crew? Dunno! But it's definitely exciting!
Sidenote: Matthew Stover's adaptation of God of War is out in stores today! Go buy it!
Source: io9.com
As long as Brandon Keener returns to voice a possibly CG Garrus, I'll be happy. Well, not really, but it'd be a start.
ReplyDeleteTotally. Anyone else playing Garrus would be a crime in my eyes. I'd call the police.
ReplyDeleteNo offense Mr. Knightfall, but implying that Prince of Persia will restore people's faith in video game to movie adaptations might be a little optimistic. The lead actor not only isn't Persian, he isn't even Arabic. Quite the opposite in fact, he's white.
ReplyDeleteBut I could be wrong. Maybe I'm the only one who cares about that sort of thing.
I was thinking "faith" as in: any at all. Audiences and filmmakers aren't quick to embrace stories derived from video games. The fact that Jerry Bruckheimer backed PRINCE OF PERSIA shows that there's some renewed confidence there, or that he just has more money than he knows what to do with. I dunno anymore. Apparently it was just good eye candy, which is a shame.
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for that tipping point, where game properties will get snatched up as quickly as comic book properties did when SPIDER-MAN and X-MEN made it big at the box office. I thought PoP might have been that movie, but apparently not.
As for the Persian thing, I'm not sure what to think about it. Yes, they could have hired a strong middle-eastern actor to play the title role, but I'm not so sure the movie is important enough for it to matter in the long run. You have a Britain of Indian descent playing an Iraqi in LOST and you have an Irish man playing the title German role in SCHINDLER'S LIST. It happens.
Though, you could definitely make the argument that they didn't hire a middle-eastern actor based on Western prejudice and I might be inclined to agree.
Yeah, the Prince is played by a white man. I have to say, this bothers me too, ReleasingControl. The white men plaing Middle-Easterners in the Indiana Jones films annoys me too. it bothered me in 'Sinbad' and 'Aladdin' But what's Persia now? Iraq, I think?
ReplyDeletePlus, the Prince was white in the games, too.
But what Knightfall meant was - the movie looks pretty good - certainly in comparison to the majority of movies based on videogames. That's despite the Westernisation of the Persian hero.
It LOOKS pretty good, but RottenTomatoes.com does not care for it (it has 40% approval last time I looked). Sad panda. =(
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