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No PRINCE OF PERSIA For Bay - More Giant F#*@ing Robots Instead!! The New PERSIA Master Might Be...
Merrick here...
We've known for a while now that Jerry Bruckheimer has been developing a movie centered around the successful PRINCE OF PERSIA video games.
Michael Bay was orbiting the project for a bit - many assumed his directing the film was a certainty.
However, seems Bay has opted to continue developing a TRANSFORMERS sequel instead - a project for which Production Designer Nigel Phelps (TROY, JUDGE DREDD, THE ISLAND and PEARL HARBOR) was recently recruited.
Seems Mike Newell has now been offered the PRINCE OF PERSIA gig. Newell directed HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE, and the forthcoming LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA.
More information HERE!
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Well, not for Prince of Persia, but one less Michael Bay film is good for me!
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Strangest news I've heard all day...
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Had to be done... ;)
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Damn You Michael Bay.
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As cool as the awesome scene starring PRINCE OF PERSIA on last nights Life!!! Man that scene was so cool, the way that a single scene could single handly make a seemingly smart show turn into one of the lamest things I have ever scene on TV. This was lamer then anything I've seen on NAVY Ncis. Life is getting canned. That scene was laughably bad and I don't feel bad for all the actors involved, because they should be smart enough to realize that a bunch of cops standing around watching someone play videos games was only cool when the Wizzard did it back in the 80's.
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It would suck even worse.
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way better than being 1st! I rule... ;)
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way better than being 1st! I rule... ;)
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There aren't enough excuses to blow things up.
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POPINO! POPINO!
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Great pizza company...I LOVE the sauce.
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Now that Bay is directing,which im sure its gonna be another 2hr plus commercial for every single trendy product on the market at the time.Just like the first one.
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When Bay was attached, I thought that the flick would look too trendy. Now, I think that we may get a fun pulpy summer popcorn film, like the first Pirates of the Carribean. That's all I want from this movie. No hyper action shots with extra-big-ass explosions.
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A children's movie, but with masturbation jokes. Brilliant.
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To be directing a potential franchise like this? Get someone Gore's age or younger. Unless there will be different directors for each film?
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seriously, Transformers was the best it could be. I also love your military-fetishism-hard-on.
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when Bay "develops" the Tsfmr sequel, he works on "developing" the clothes off Megan Fox's body.
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I shall reserve a distinct opinion when it comes out.
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... they actually cast at least ONE Persian actor instaed of pulling a 300 (or a Mrs. Garrison) and casting a bunch of Mexicans.
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No news about real movies?
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Love in the Time of Cholera is good.
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I'm just sayin... Tell me you can't see Sawyer as the PoP! (minus the southern accent, of course) Sure, they'd SHOULD actually go with an ethnically accurate actor, but do you really think Hollywood will do that? Me neither. And hey, if he can't be Gambit (what a wasted opportunity!) then why not the PoP?
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Nov 08, 2007 11:00:38 AM CST
I'd love to be able to say that the deffinition of insanity....
by supersneaky
....is directing exactly the same film 8 times and expecting different results. Except I really don't think Mike's after different results. I think he really is happy producing that one film over and over again. CRASH. BANG. KABOOM. YEAH!!! At least he's confident i s'pose.....
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Great work by ILM (when you could see it), terrible everything else. Maybe if Bay can be quarantined to robot movies for the rest of his life......
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Obviously Bay's hissy fit about not getting TINO on Blu-Ray hasn't stopped him ruining the sequel as well. Oh well, maybe in 20 years someone talented will make something using the original designs.
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The beginning was cool. Then, once the kids, hip/cool/euro/young/lame geniuses got involved it got really stupid. Then there was Optimus, the most bad ass artificial life form ever created, saying "my bad". F'ing retarded. They need to make up their fucking minds and decide if the sequel is going to be geared for adults or if they're trying to make another mediocre sell out cash cow. Fuck it, I think I'll just down load it off the net this time and not waste my money.
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GOBLET OF FIRE was good, except for people who didn't read the book. For them, it might have been just another action flick, fast paced. People who read the book could read between the lines, like, an imagined fill in the blanks type of thing.
The only problem is, Disney is producing it. For POP: SANDS OF TIME, that's fine. No beheadings to speak of, nor skimpy dressed ladies. But if its going towards POP: WARRIOR WITHIN, we might just have a question mark on what appears in the movie in terms of violence and suggestive sexuality that's present in the game. -
should be the lead
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That debt of your will never be paid off, ever!
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FINALLY! SOMEONE WITH TALET DIRECTING AVDEOAM MOVIE? THIS HAS TO BE FAKE!
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STILL FAKE!
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... Lead villain maybe. Was there a character called "Squinty", maybe?
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I don't see why Disney wouldn't have beheadings of the sand creatures ala SoT.
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"what was that? you eyeing my peice, 50-cent? make somethin happen, cause i gaurantee you, i wiw bus' you up."
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"is that what the kids are doin' these days? little bit o' MOJO?"
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Never heard of Valentine Faye, but I have heard of Faye Valentine. And Jill Valentine. And Teddy Valentine.
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Keep Michael Bay doing these linear, kiddie, piece of shit movies, and OFF anything else. He's King Midas in reverse, everything Bay touches turns to shit.
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To wash the shit taste of new bionic woman out of our mouths!! Leave the dreary angst at the door Bay would nail Steve Austin!!!
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...more Optimus nipples.
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I don't understand the difference.
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It'll be HUGE in the red states! And he should drink lots of cold, refreshing Miller Lite!
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when it comes to Transformers, which was typical Michael Bay garbage. I suspect the apologists will show up in 3...2....1...
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SoT didn't have beheadings nor did it have blood. As soon as the enemy falls or weakens, the Prince would extract the sand from the said body through the Dagger. In fact, now that I think about, the fights were pretty boring, and freaking hard.
WW, on the other hand, was a bloody affair, with super slow-mo combo kills, and of course, beheadings. The sand would float to the Prince, to that emblem on his chest. -
for Michael Bay last night. I know, I felt dirty. But a friend gave me the movie Next, with Nick Cage, and as I sat through that awful mess I actually thought: You know, the idea is cool, the characters very weak, I bet Bay would have made this film enjoyable. I don't know why that popped into my head, but it did. The action sequences were lame, the dialog was as bad as it gets, but the idea was cool and there was potential. I think Bay would have made it much more fun, and I don't even like him that much.
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The same person!I wouldn't watch another round of Transhitters if you paid me and ''are they making another video game movie! WoW! that will be excellently shite!''
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I really geeked out on that one. And I am in my late 20's...shame on me!
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I actually really enjoyed Transformers. For me, I got a real sense of the amazing and of the alien watching those creatures he created come to life. They spoke in a cheesy fashion, but it was explained in that they learned to speak from media culture, which is already derivitave anyway, so it made perfect sense.This whole Flames on Optimus Prime thing is pretty stupid. I enjoyed the flick for what it was...a fun popcorn flick with really cool special effects. I compare it to Independence Day: lots of holes int he plot, a lot of ftupid ideas and unlikely scenarios, but still very fun. Sometimes I think you cynical bastards have totally forgotten what makes a fun, good movie.It isn't canon, or matching up to the comic book or original design exactly. It isn't even necessarily a logical or a choerent whole. It's whether or not a movie can pull you in for two hours, make you forget the real world, and see something you've never seen before. Transformers did that for me. If you guys hated the movie because of crap like flames on Optimus Prime or Jazz doing a little dance, you are sad and pathetic.
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Was a real step down from Azkaban.
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and that is John Abraham (Water) as the Prince... he looks the part and would rock that role...
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tranformers was actualy alrite though a few cringeworthy moments but still good
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i just didnt like how dumbledore was extremley rude. his performance was better in ootp the thing i like gambons dumbledore is that he is perfect in the actual physical scenes and hes pretty intese at the time, though i didnt like how mean he was in gof. but harris brought more fatherly type warmth to the role. what were we talking about again
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peter o'toole should have been the new dumbledore.
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I found too many cringe worthy moments in transformers..mikaela and sam were the nly characters i liked...Anthony anderson was the only other funny one but he wasnt used much..every other character felt forced and annoying..except the robots, please more of them next time and less thin plots with cutsey dialogue.
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Makes sense, I guess.
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Imagine a kickass rated R and seriously violent transformers movie, no kiddie shit, kind of in the tone of the first predator movie...fuck that would be killller! Just get john mctiernan to do it or james cameron..
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Nov 08, 2007 2:17:59 PM CST
Does Michael Bay have the attention span to play video games?
by spandau belly
I can see him jamming away for a minute at MYST before exploding "It's too slow! I can't take it! Give me a rap video at high speed, NOW!"
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My wife is a big fan of the Prince of Persia games and we both love the new show Life which is so much smarter than ANY cop show on tv right now. Last night Prince of Persia was prominently featured. It was cool!
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Is there any word on whether this is going to be an epic trilogy following the plot of the videogames? The first two had interesting plots, but they were very much designed around the game mechanics, like reversing time, or running away from the Dahaka, concepts which could get pretty boring in a feature length film.
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Yes? No?
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What's the prince's name anyway? Does he have one in the game?
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I just looked up her profile in imdb.
She's older than I thought. BUT STILL HOT! Age is all relative anyway. -
Doh!
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"i give weemun pleasurr forrr munee"
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...on the Who-Gives-A-Shit channel.
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Nov 08, 2007 4:53:05 PM CST
"Bay has opted to continue developing a TRANSFORMERS sequel inst
by immortal_fish
More like, "Bay has opted to continue destroying a TRANSFORMERS sequel instead."
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MORE STARSCREAM!!!
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So we're supposed to watch a movie with a dude running around doing acrobatics? I miss PoP2: The Shadow and the Flame...sure wish Xbox live would release that on the arcade like they did PoP classic.
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needs to have lots of that semi martial art that involves running up walls, jumping from rooftops etc...like the big chase scene in the beginning of the new Bond flick....
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WTF, This was before her big break in Training Day and I don't remember seeing her in Exit Wounds.
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needs to be done and i mean like a monsters ball type one not the shitty underworld evolution one
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Now if only it follows the storyline of the game...
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...just admit it.
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Nov 08, 2007 6:24:36 PM CST
Hey Bay you fucktard corporate shill..I have two words for you..
by conspiracy
"Script", "Story".
Once you learn what these two words mean, and how they apply to the movie business, maybe you'll do something more important and memorable than direct a 2 hour long commercial. -
is like wanting George Lucas to direct another Star Wars film.
Let the Childhood raping begin. -
But you made me laugh, conspiracy, at the Lucas thing. ITA & LOL
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It should have been Uwe Boll!
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A Micheal Bay Prince of Persia would be horrible, especially since he can't get his actors to, you know, act. PoP (the first one) only has two prominent characters all the way through the game. Everyone else appears at the beginning, or very end. If the storyline is based on the game, that means that you first have to find a guy that can carry off the Prince, and a hot chick that can wriggle inbetween the cracks in walls. Everyone else for the majority of the movie would be a sand monster. Then you'd have to be able to get the Prince and the chick to act. That's the part where Michael Bay would fail. After seeing the performances that Newell got out the Harry Potter kids, I think this movie might actually have a chance at being good.
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Transformers kicked ass. and Transformers 2 will kick even more ass, and will hopefully feature Megan Fox in a bikini. That is all. Good day.
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Hell, its the only movie of his I actually really dug. Aside from The Rock. Rest of his output is pretty shoddy. (well, I don't HATE Bad Boys, I just think they're kinda lame without the star wattage)
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Where are you? Haven't heard from you for ages and this is the kind of TB you were made for. I miss those little rants of yours about Michael Bay in unrelated TBs...
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should have unicron in it and hot rod!
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Absolutely fantastic, I thought. One of those films that was just screaming out to be seen in HD. Entertainment in its purest form!
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He can't direct action! just look at his harry potter!! Awww hell no. I never thought i'd say it but i think michael bay would be suited to this. I mean, a big fun adventure movie in the vien of pirates is what i'm hoping for. I don't trust mike to deliver that based on the only action-y film of his i've seen. He should stick to dramas and romantic comedies. He's good with the character stuff, but this is all about the action.
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First scene, the Prince tries to leap from a wobbly ledge, falls into spikes. He gets a do-over, but the running time of the film is shortened.
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maybe you meant potc 3. that movie was fuckin boring until the end.
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...that they'll try to get the whitest mother-fucker to play a Persian?
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If you don't like Micheal Bay, you should go back to russia.
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Goblet of Fire was fun as hell! If he edits Persia in the same manner, we are in for a treat.
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The video game, was of course based on the 1940's The Thief of Bagdad movie ( which we all know was the base for the Disney verison of Aladdin ). That in turn is of course modified from several stories in the 1001 Nights manuscripts.
The bad guy in the original game was even named 'Jaffar', how much more obvious does it need to be? Gilbert Gottfried reprising his role?
So Bay will be telling a knockoff of a knock off of a knockoff of a story.
Wouldn't it be better to go back to the source material and make a deep meaning, culturally significant contirbuton about Persian History, or Persian culture, perhaps contrasting its past with today and its national religion? Perhaps a hard hitting critical view of persuit of ultimate power ( particulaly poignant in today's Persia (Iran), wouldn't you think? ), or using that power to topple evil? ( and getting creative with just who is the evil? )
Oh WAIT IT'S MICHAEL FRACKING BAY. It won't be a movie ABOUT a video game. It will just *BE* a video game. Pow POw POW!
OoooOO Is that a cheeseburger? Pass the Michael Bay please!
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I'm glad to see someone else might be at the reigns. it still won't be any kind of movie it ought to be. AN interesting background to do something differnt with. Oh well. I think I'll go watch The Rock or something now. -
James Callis anyone?
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At least they're starting with a real movie director this time - now if it is a Sam Raimi or Lee Tamahori is for time to decide. I'll say this though, I think Mike Newell also directed Donnie Brasco and, thus, was the one guy in the 90s who was able to get a truly fantastic performance out of Pacino (not even Michael Mann could do that in a great movie) so I'll trust him till I see the movie.
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