And this, is very stupid and could have just been a Mummy Prequel or another Scorpion King movie for all it's gonna be like the Prince of Persia.

The purest adaptation would have the Prince be sideways to the camera the whole time.

The purest adaptation would just be another video game, but our culture's obsession with hollywood means everything has to have a movie.

Dude! How many times do I have to tell you Creator/Writer wrote it and said in an interview that the final product was what he wanted?!

Dude! Chill!

Just because the original writer for the game wrote it and liked it doesn't mean it's good, nor does it mean that the translation from game to movie works well.

They just shouldn't complain about a 'pure' adaptation when Mechnar wanted to give us a good adaptation.

If you dont know the difference go rent the theatrical cut of Watchmen then for the good adaptation watch V for Vendetta.

Gunslinger I think you're taking some of the comments people are tossing out to be direct confrontation at you.

Take a chill pill, man.

Uhmmmm Internet, where people complain about things. My second comment was more along the lines of needing to make a movie instead of just letting works of art like V and Watchmen and PoP exist as good things on their own.
That being said I DO understand what a good adaptation is and think sometimes what can make something good in one medium does'nt work regardless of how well the story is transplanted. Like farah and The Prince's relationship built up in the actual game while you were playing, which made the game a better game.

Gunslinger, what some people are arguing is that the changes that he made to make a 'good adaptation' actually detract from it. The fact that the Prince was never referred to by his name in the game was fairly cool and well done, and some people would like to see that done on the big screen as well.

Chill pill has been taken, sorry if I offended anyone but the vibe I'm getting is that nobody is open to change.

I'm just making a case that there is no way in hell that they will do to this film what Fox did to Dragonball.

Somewhere, a Fox employee is reading this line and thinking, "I'll take that as a challenge!"

That just makes me happy to know that they did not get this.

I just hope people are careful with Fox.

you do realize that a pure writer is basically dogshit in hollywood. the script may have been fine once the writers were done with it, but the execs and producers very likely had a hell of a time fucking with it before the final revision.

I can't get past the nagging impression that the poster looks like a bad photoshop. Grainy quality + generic font (Arial Black, much?) + funny placement of text = a really shitty design. There's also a nagging issue with something about his head.

That said, I really wouldn't be surprised if Disney DID go with such a generic font simply because they had no fucking clue what they were handling. It's like someone forgot the games weren't a Pixar production and wanted to make sure it was family friendly, ignoring the obvious incongruity with the image.

I mean, shit, they could at least have put in some curly text and things.
Like looka t aladdin:
http://www.impawards.com/1992/posters/aladdin_ver2.jpg

It curly like Farsi!

What I want to know is how they're going to handle the considerably darker and bloodier sequel, Warrior Within, if this movie is a success and the sequel is green lit.

I can only hope they acknowledge the bare bones of Warrior Within and make something completely separate if they seriously must adhere to the storyline. Which, if this movie so far is any indication, they will not.

Mechnar said that they won't adapt the sequels because they want this movie to be its own thing and branch out into a different direction.

Hopefully a less angst-ridden, less punk-rock, less X-TREME direction.

I just hope they stick to the ending in the game. I can all too easily see then re-writing it to give the prince and Farrah a happy, ride-away-into-the-sunset-together ending, rather that her forgetting everything.

I hate it when movies do that. :shifty:

she does but he falls into the fountain and its possible that they hook up. Perfect ending for a PoP movie cause its open ended but you still get closure. Read the script if you don't believe me; its from 06 so there are minor differences from the end result.