Surprising teaser posters for "Prince of Persia" (2010)

I have to agree with the Slashfilm author: the posters are much different than what I would have expected (ie: Something saturated with colors and giving us glimpses of a lot of different scenes or characters like "Pirates of the Caribbean"). The almost complete use of black and white and the very un-action adventure-esque font almost make it look like a dark, borderline art-house fantasy/action film. Of course, seeing as this is a big-budget production from Disney, that won't be the case, but hey, I can dream, can't I?

On a side note: they've done a really good job of making Jake Gyllenhaal look like the titular Prince...from the second game (titled Warrior Within). This will be interesting to see what they've done with the story. Just as long as they keep the Dagger of Time.....

Source: Slashfilm.com/Empire

Based on the UbiSoft video game trilogy which was, in turn, an update of Jordan Mechner’s classic original side-scrolling game, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is written by Mechner, Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard and directed by Mike Newell. (This marking Newell’s second big foray into fantasy after the fourth Harry Potter film, in 2005.) Sir Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina co-star.

Dastan (Gyllenhaal) is a street urchin adopted by the King, an ends up going after the Sands of Time, a time-controlling artifact held by the evil Nizam (Kingsley). But the games were much more about acrobatics that brought players into the action than they were overt story. Sure, Bruckheimer has spun straw into unlikely gold before with the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but there he had license to create characters and story wholesale. This time, the film is based just enough on the UbiSoft video game series to be recognizable. But Newell has the look of the main character just right — seriously, in these images Gyllenhaal could easily be mistaken for the digital Prince — and that gives me just enough hope that we’ll see a grand arabic (well, faux-arabic) adventure, if not the arty action these posters promise.