Prince of Persia film could generate $2.7 billion-plus - Ubisoft

looks like total action and no story...acting was pretty bad too. BUT!!! It looked pretty good.

Really? Know what I saw? The best movie to come along in a long time... At LEAST on par with PotC one and leagues above it's two sequels.

All I see in the trailer is: -Sand -CGI Michael Bay Status -More Sand -Poor Acting -Lots of Sand -Pathetic One-liners -And Yes, Sand Take out the PotC? Good luck, mate, I'll be saving my money,,.

The fact that PotC attracted all age groups and made about $650 mil, makes me seriously doubt that a movie that doesn't seem like a film for the whole family will make even half that. I'm sure it'll make number one at the box office for the first couple weeks, but then rapidly drop off. Plus, with white-as-all-get-out Jake playing a Persian, I don't know if I can even suspend reality that far.

@ Zerosumgame Yes, but I can manage to forgive them as long as I get really spiffy video games.

this is exactly why the rich can be super-rich. They keep pumping out bs for avg consumer to "consume" while they just sipping wine in their living room.

The title of this article is misleading. When Guillemot says that "it could maybe be stronger than Pirates, which did $2.7 billion" he's referring to the whole Pirates trilogy, not just the first film. The first pirates film banked about $650 million worldwide. However, I doubt that the PoP film will make more than $200-$300 million. PoTC had great reviews to back it and positive word-of-mouth generated by Johnny Depp's performance to keep people lining up for it. PoP's advertising will definitely get people in the theater for the first few weekends, but I can't see it having the staying power of Pirates.

Looks way better than PotC, which was thoroughly over-rated twaddle. I just completed PoP on the 360 - a great game, and thoroughly under-rated. Will definitely be playing it again, and looking forward to a sequel.

i think Gillenhall can pull off the ... smugness of the prince of the first game.... but he just doesnt have the look to fit the prince (maybe the first one but for all who've played the second and third, they may know what i mean) looking at the trailer it DOES look good and i mean there's the whole "dark" prince aspect in it as well i hope there's the Dahaka =P

It'll probably do more than most game movies but 3.7 billion seems like wishful thinking to me, I'm guessing about 70 million

Prince of Persia isn't a gore game. PG-13 is exactly the rating for what the first game was, if possibly a bit too much. The gore and tone of the second was really unnecessary and try-hard. It won't excede the level of the 2nd POTC film, which was by far the most violent of the 3.

Wow! Prince of Persia movie? That's great! Oh, and the effects is to great, no doubt it's to costly!

looks pretty epic.

I was expecting the movie to be a gorefest, but I guess Disney wouldn't do that. Don't know how they'll cover the second a third games with a PG-13 rating.

i already saw the trailer of the prince of Persia movie i m not surprise that the film could generate billions of dollars with all the special effects and other stuff like that i must admit that this film could generate more money since the pirates of the Caribbean film.

Im definitely going to see it, but im not anticipated to see it or anything.. Cant see it reaching 2.7 billion lol.. But who knows.

don't count on it

disney has its name on it so ====> not that much blood/violence like in the game :(

I'll be seeing it. Just not with huge expectations, but it could be fun! =)

I have to admit the trailer exceeded all of my expectations, though they weren't very high. It still looks too Hollywood though, so much so that I was getting flashbacks of the 15 minutes of Transformers 2 I saw before walking out on it.

Looks like it'll be a great, fun adventure flick, but nothing deep, or complex. Nothing wrong with that

Jared Leto would make a better Prince.

one of the ugliest motion picture ever, inspired by a game.

Pirates of the Carribean was based on a rollercoaster. When it started Johnny Depp wasn't a sex symbol, he was the weird guy who did Tim Burton films. Keira Knightly was either Pride or Prejudice or Bend It Like Beckham. Orlando Bloom was the blond elf from the Lord of the Rings. Nobody thought that Pirates of the Carribean would be anything more than a flop. This movie has a definite chance of being possibly the first good game to movie transition. Like an Aladdin for grown-ups. Jake Gylenhall is the Rabbit from Donnie Darko, he carried The Day After Tomorrow and he was excellent in Brokeback Mountain. He is an excellent actor and is known as such. Gemma Arterton is hot and has good acting credentials also. the Pirates franchise became successful due to luck. Sure, this movie executive is counting his eggs before they hatch, but there definitely is an opportunity available for this film to create a niche of its own.

Idk if it's going to do better the Pirates because even though it was just a Disney ride at first, everybody knew about that ride, and I don't think everybody knows about this property. Also, it had Depp in it......I mean c'mon! My feeling says no, it won't do anywhere near as good. Idk why, but I do.

@Way2fonky I agree with you there, but I did not go gaga over Johnny Depp, just admired Orlando Bloom, despite his dull acting there. Maybe it's because I keep stereotyping him as Legolas.

I agree with frazzle00 and TheSopranosFan, the Pirates movies are a bit overrated. Women just go gaga over Johnny Depp. No Depp = far less appeal for the casual crowd, which is where most of the market comes from.

Hmm looks like good stuff. Jakes looks very Arabicesque lol.

i hope this inspires ubi to continue the sands of time series and ditch the horrible new pop game sucked big time

hope its a good movie

Awesome

It could truly end up being an AMAZING movie, even then, I doubt it will have even close to the amount of predicted success these people claim....it's laughable haha Most of the best movies never do good in the box office....case and point

hope it is as good as the pirates series

i just hope they dont make a loz movie, i dont want them to ruin the series for me

Yeah yeah cool... Just keep making Beyond Good And Evil 2 please

granted capnjack/depp was the main reason. but jack was made in the movie, not in previous media. so i dont think saying no depp no money is a fair conclusion. unfortunately i havents seen the trailer (dial-up) but i can envision jake portaying a prince (like the 08 prince) easily and well, which is probably the type filmmakers want. not our god of battle from ww. which should all be cg if thats flicked.

I honestly didn't think that the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was anything special. The latter 2 sequels were especially average. The PoP movie doesn't really have to be all that great to be on par with or even exceed the PotC films. As to the commercial success of the potential franchise. I don't really know and I don't really care. As long as I get more PoP games I'm happy :).

I have to agree Johny Depp pretty much made the money on those movies. He is the rare actor that the women love for his looks and the guys think he would be a cool guy to party with. Gillenhall on the other hand doesn't have as much appeal to the women and I don't see many guys wanting to hang out with him.

@ mopeyking : you gotta admit, they pretty much follow the games on that point : the Prince, and the other Persian characters for that matter, are light skinned while Farah and the Indian characters are darker. Despite having the name Sands of Time in its title, this game is mostly influenced by the third game : the weird chain used as a weapon, the CGI for the Sands remind of the effect that chain made on the Prince, even the general design for the Prince is reminisent of the third game.

Im not sure how a Professional figure in the industry could be that immensely misinformed. Who is lying to these people? Who is gathering this information? If they drive the press and advertising into the ground before release it MIGHT make 100-150 million. Expecting anything more than that is delusional.

Why does everything always have to involve trilogies, ugh. I'll probably like this movie but why should I watch it 3 times? The first Pirate movie was cool but then the next 2 just had to do with Johnny Depp insanity. Plus the next two Prince games were rated M. I doubt Hollywood would add a whole bunch of gore to the next films to make it R. That's fine with me keeping it PG-13 but I'm not so sure eveyone else would like that.

hope it does well, also looking forward to the Bioshock movie

Trailer looks cool...i think its gonna rock...

Yay for Ubisfot, I dont think I actually played the sands of time so it will be cool to watch the movie of it because I wont get so angry if teh story differs a little bit.

Bruckheimer better make sure he doesn't give one of the best ubisoft franchises a bad name. This movie is gonna have to be better than all three games put together :D

Thought this movie is supposed to be prince of Persia not prince of Caucasia...

In 2:31 they showed all the film...

When will Hollywood learn...

Oh those witty comments, and a cute love story, you got to love hollywood.

No! No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no! Films based on video games, no! It never works.