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Published at:  Jun 06, 2008 6:04:41 AM CDT

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Ben Kingsley is a working fool. The man's in, like, 487 movies in the next two years. Now he's joining a project that has an incredibly crazy cast shaping up... PRINCE OF PERSIA. Kingsley will be the villain, Nizam, scheming to kill his brother, the king, and take the thrown. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the prince of the title and Alfred Molina has a role, which I'm guessing is the King.

I love me some Molina and if I took this cast out of Prince of Persia, I'd be completely psyched. That sounds like a big dig... and I guess it is a little, but if they can make this a big, fun movie then I'm all for it. If they keep the casting going strong, then we could have a fun flick. Thoughts?




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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:13:01 AM CDT

    I'm most looking forward to Gyllenhaal

    by magic rat

    playing Joe Namath in that biopic coming out. He'll own in that role.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:13:12 AM CDT

    Gyllenhaal in black-face?

    by maxthesilent

    Sign me up!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:15:09 AM CDT

    So, are they gonna cast any arabs at all?

    by designdude

  • Jun 06, 2008 6:15:47 AM CDT

    no subject

    by mikethespike

    Ben Kingsley is more than enough "Arab" for the average American moviegoer, methinks.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:24:36 AM CDT

    Blockbuster Video!

    by digitalbeachwar

    WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:27:42 AM CDT

    the movie that should be made...

    by bobaswart

    with the same plot points but way cooler would be stephen king's 'eyes of the dragon'

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:28:34 AM CDT

    Persians aren't Arabs.

    by dingbatty

  • Jun 06, 2008 6:50:37 AM CDT

    Persians are iranians

    by mr_x

    but prince of iran doesnt sound like a cinematic winner

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  • Jun 06, 2008 6:54:35 AM CDT

    for your explaination of persia / iran

    by mr_x

    http://tinyurl.com/6d5pe5 watch omid djalili britians most famous iranian comic!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:34:27 AM CDT

    yup. needs jumping.

    by gatsbys west egg omlet

    and running on walls. as long as it delivers those things, and looks pretty, it should work.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:40:41 AM CDT

    Well, Molina played a Persian before...

    by kid z

    ...in that horrible Sally Field movie years ago. (Horrible because it was Sally Field, y'know? She just grates on my last nerve!)

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  • Ben Kingsley is from Iran.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:42:57 AM CDT

    Or his character in House and San and Frog was anyway

    by flipao

    I've pulled an all nighter, so sorry if I'm wrong :)

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:43:25 AM CDT

    Thoughts?

    by atari

    Here's my most recent thought -- I want to fuck that Bustedtee girl.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:45:56 AM CDT

    yeah, bring on those jumps and potions!

    by argentino

    and while you're at it throw some spikes coming of the ground

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  • Jun 06, 2008 7:57:04 AM CDT

    No "black-face" you idiot...

    by kid z

    ... Many Persians have very light skin, though they do have very dark hair. Think "Black Irish" but with dark brown, instead of blue eyes.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 8:02:04 AM CDT

    N0...Persians ARE NOT...REPEAT...

    by kid z

    NOT "Arabs"! Entirely different language, culture and ethnic background. Persians are Indo-European, Arabs are Semitic. The Persian language, though it has many Arabic loan-words due to the Arab invasion in the 7th Century AD, is an Indo-European language entirely unrelated to Arabic grammatically. Get some fickin' knowledge about the world, people. Geez!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 8:16:50 AM CDT

    but if they can make this a big, fun movie

    by series7

    I don't think the words FUN and Jake Gyllenhaal are ever involved with the same movie.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 8:39:15 AM CDT

    Oh great...

    by scioptic

    ...we get to hear Alfred Molina do his 'foreign' voice.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 9:36:11 AM CDT

    "and take thrown"...what's a "thrown"?!

    by pancomplex

    Gonna need a bigger Spellcheck Quint.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 9:40:32 AM CDT

    this just in: UWE BOLL TO DIRECT ALL GAME-TO-FILM ADAPTATIONS FR

    by the marquis de side 3

    just kidding. NO ONE IS THAT CRUEL. =0)

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  • Jun 06, 2008 10:50:56 AM CDT

    Take the thrown, King!

    by countryboy

  • Jun 06, 2008 11:38:06 AM CDT

    because Gyllenhaal looks totally Persian

    by palooka_boy

    THIS. IS. LESBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 12:05:55 PM CDT

    Great cast...

    by red_weed

    Now if only they had a director that could do the action this film needs. Am I right in thinking Mike Newell is directing this? the guy that made Harry Potter 4? Sure it had more developed drama and romance scenes, but the action was severely lacking. that dragon fight was lifeless. I don't trust him with action set pieces and I loves these games, for the film to work that's exacly what they need. Maybe Bruckheimer will guide him... god i hope so.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 1:20:54 PM CDT

    Big steel teethed shutter/door things .....

    by rameses

    that *clang* up and down!!!The first games had them and the film needs them...they were bloody terrorfying!!!!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 2:19:27 PM CDT

    I wish Bruckheimer would work on this instead

    by thenorthlander

    http://tinyurl.com/5h8je5

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  • Jun 06, 2008 3:26:21 PM CDT

    Keep the game's amazing story and THAT BATH SCENE

    by proman1984

    That scene was bonerworthy. Good stuff!

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  • Jun 06, 2008 4:28:07 PM CDT

    But will there be blood

    by second try

    ...when Jake fall on a spike pit?

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  • Jun 06, 2008 4:36:50 PM CDT

    Ben should have been in Spider-Man 3...

    by mrfan

    as the Vulture. Not crapfest Venom.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 5:12:14 PM CDT

    what a stupid headline...

    by jimcurry

    try again.

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  • Jun 06, 2008 9:25:48 PM CDT

    thrown?

    by long live the new chris

  • Jun 08, 2008 5:04:52 AM CDT

    Gandhi Gotta Eat

    by tygrus2000

    end of line

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  • Jun 08, 2008 8:55:58 AM CDT

    Ben Kingsley is the modern day Anthony Quinn

    by jackrabbitslim

    The slightly dusky, generically ethnic quality actor who can play sdeemingly any race or nationality ... and will do any project as long as the check clears. Though for my money "You Kill Me" was my favorite comedy of last year.

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