Mike Newell Offered PRINCE OF PERSIA

You know they'll screw this up! Cast Keanu Reeves as the Prince, instead of someone like Oded Fehr, but maybe a little youger. And they'll change the story to be about stealing a magic lamp that has a magic genie inside....Oh and he'll have a pet monkey, a pet parrot, and a pet magic carpet too. Gee I hope Robin Williams is still available or they'll have to get that guy who plays Homer SImpson again.

Good old optimisim.....I like the game, but not sure how it will work as a movie. It has promise, and I think Newell is a capable director. Let's see what happens.

In Bruckheimer's hands this film will be an entertaining summer pop corn flick. I'm looking foward to this being something like Pirates of the Caribbean, which is obviously what Disney and Bruckheimer are trying to recapture and maybe spawn a multimillion dollar franchise.
The story is there in the game, and even if they dont' adapt directly, they still got tons of possibilities for the Prince.
Looking forward to the film, casting will be important though.

i have faith this could be an awesome movie...but they need to keep the prince as he was in the first game (personality wise).
the actual 'sands of time' worked because they gave the player awesome control of a great character...is the movie gonna also have rewinding and fastforwarding?! that sounds terrible (ie, cage's NEXT).
maybe the sands are what the prince is trying to prevent the bad guy from getting? i dunno.

Sands of Time will be amazing on the big screen, and the time control effects could easily be adapted in plenty of cool ways for the film. They really need to stay true to the tone of the first game in the trilogy though. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, even 4 years later is still one of the most beautiful action games of all time, and the only game that has any potential of eclipsing it is Assassin's Creed, which was made by the same team. The Sequels, Warrior Within, and The Two Thrones, while technically superior in terms of gameplay and design, were missing some of the magic that the first game had. The humor, romance and action in Sands of Time rivaled any hollywood blockbuster, and if they can get the same people who did the music for the first game, I'll be thrilled.
Please don't screw this up. This is the game that made me fall in love with games again. I've beaten it like 50 times, and I would be heartbroken if it's turned into another generic popcorn flick that barely reflects the source material. Go with Jordan Mechner's script. He created this character, and this game genre, so I think he knows what he's doing.

Good thing they've taken Sands of Time to adapt. If they had made the first Prince of Persia (wich I played about 20 years ago), the prince would keep fallin' through the floor and die on some stakes.

I haven't played any of the Sands of Times games, but this could be a good movie. But as some of you said, casting is critical.

Pirre you HAVE to try the Sands of Time trilogy, in order. I hadn't either until fairly recently and I was really impressed. The story was Lucas-esque good (Original Trilogy not the prequels) in it's epic scale, archetypal characters, humour, pathos, use of cyclical motifs etc.

This COULD be a totally amazing film franchise, but yes, casting and more importantly a great script are essential.

Your right scytheofluna it has to be the same script other wise it would not fit at all. The Story line for all three games have to match for the films.
It's all ready written, it just needs to be formatted and to have the right person for it. I truely think Jordan Mechner is the only one that can pull this off. As if Hollywood would listen for a change which is doubtful.
I bet they'll get a losy writer who can't write at all. The wrong actor to portray the charactor and or have a losy effects in it.
That's why this has to take time, not the nine month rush jobs that most Directors do so they can get another job. Look at Lord of the Rings. It was handled right everything was in them that was in the books, well except forTom Bombadil the main halflings met. It would have been sweat to see that charactor.
Anyway, most films do quite well though I do watch alot of films. My point is, just listen to us for a change cause one day in the future Fans will be the ones that call the shots not some studio excext that thinks he/she is right.

I definitely enjoyed the second two games, but I think they wen't a bit overboard with the personality transformation for the second game. The Prince, even hunted by the Dahaka should still have retained some of his sarcastic wit, and it would have been nice to see some references to Farah in the second game, despite her absence, some indication that he missed her. The other major thing is to omit the lousy nu-metal music for the film. I enjoy a crunchy metal tune but not in a Prince of Persia game or film.