You would think that if you were going to use one of the most famous video game franchises as part of the main plot in one of your episodes – a cult game that inspired a movie that topped international box offices – you would check with someone who actually played the game to see [...]
Instead of having to troll the IMDB message boards and hope that someone will send you that screenplay instead of spam, screenwriter Jordan Mechner released his original screenplay for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time so you can see firsthand how much things change from the original script to the shooting draft. We spoke to [...]
Unless there’s a sudden technology breakthrough brewing that no one knows about, movies will always be missing the core element of video gaming: pressing a button (or providing some other kind of input) to make stuff happen on a screen. Still, film can accomplish things with gaming-centric adaptations that aren’t inherent to the interactive medium. [...]
When you get a Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster based on a video game, the brains at Techland start to overload. So to review this week’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time spectacular, we’ve called on both gaming geek Evan Narcisse and movie geek Steven James Snyder to hash out the particulars. Surprisingly, they sort of [...]
Video game movies tend to suck. That ain’t news. But the visual sizzle on display in he previews for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is giving movie-goers and gamers reason to hope. Dreamy-hunk–with-actual-acting-chops Jake Gyllenhaal ratchets up the anticipation meter, too. But, if the film translation of PoP winds actually being good, Jordan [...]
By my count, the Prince of Persia has had three lives. First, the always-nameless hero debuted in 1992 in the ground-breaking adventures hand-crafted by Jordan Mechner on the Apple IIe. The skilled animation in the earliest PoP games broke new ground for how lifelike game characters could come across. The next life of the Prince [...]
Welcome to the Loadout. Our philosophy is that the working week is a recurring boss battle that you’ll need the proper weapons to take down. The supplies at hand won’t always be pretty but you might just be able to hold out until the weekend. Green means add it to your arsenal, yellow leaves it [...]
Only by taking … this dagger … to the secret guardian temple … can you make me stop breathlessly uttering exposition …
