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Jake Gyllenhaal Cast as the "Prince of Persia"

By Jason on May 23, 2008

Jake Gyllenhaal, once known as “bubble boy” or “Heath Ledger’s cuddle buddy” or even “the other Tobey Maguire” will now be known as a prince. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed what the all knowing internet (via Latino Review) has known for over a month now, that Gyllenhaal has been cast as the lead in the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is somewhat based on the bestselling game and will be adapted by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films. In this fantasy adventure, Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia. He’s forth in line to the throne with no chance of ever becoming King so he leads a sort of Indiana Jones type adventurous life. In this film he will have to join forces with Tamina (who will be played by Gemma Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess (aren’t they all?) to prevent a bad guy from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow whoever possesses it to rule the world.

Doug Miro & Carlo Bernard, Jordan Mechner and Boaz Yakin wrote the script. Production is set to start in July for a release in summer of 2009.

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Jason is a one-time film major from the University of Texas. Life’s journey took him out of film school and into business, but the love of film and television never left his blood.

12 responses to “Jake Gyllenhaal Cast as the "Prince of Persia"”

  1. AnaDVR
    AnaDVR
    May 23, 2008 at 10:18 am | | Reply

    Interesting picture, J. Should I be worried? :)

  2. DadofIandI
    DadofIandI
    May 23, 2008 at 10:27 am | | Reply

    @ AnaDVR you took the words right out of my mouth. This is almost as bad as the Pac Man movie I heard about.

    DadofIandIs last blog post..Lakers the lesser of two evils

  3. AnaDVR
    AnaDVR
    May 23, 2008 at 10:29 am | | Reply

    PAC MAN MOVIE?! What?!

  4. Mike
    Mike
    May 23, 2008 at 10:29 am | | Reply

    Wow Jason…I’m at a loss for words…

  5. Mike
    Mike
    May 23, 2008 at 10:30 am | | Reply

    Yeah, was going to write about the Pac-Man movie sometime :)

  6. Jason
    Jason
    May 23, 2008 at 11:10 am | | Reply

    Come on fellas. We do have some ladies hanging around nowadays. It’s only fair that I throw them a bone every now and then. It’s definitely not for me.

  7. AnaDVR
    AnaDVR
    May 23, 2008 at 11:14 am | | Reply

    The first thing that came into my mind when I saw that picture was that his cowboy lover was going to come into the room any second. He’s been tainted ever since Brokeback.

  8. jina
    jina
    May 23, 2008 at 12:25 pm | | Reply

    So, Jason, you just stole your screen saver for this article and are now trying to pass it off as “for the ladies”. Nice.

  9. Mike
    Mike
    May 23, 2008 at 12:36 pm | | Reply

    Zing!

  10. AnaDVR
    AnaDVR
    May 23, 2008 at 12:44 pm | | Reply

    LOL! If only you knew. :)

  11. AnaDVR
    AnaDVR
    May 23, 2008 at 12:46 pm | | Reply

    His screen saver is Jack Bauer, not Jake Gyllenhaal. He likes his men manly! :)

  12. Jason
    Jason
    May 23, 2008 at 1:06 pm | | Reply

    Yeah! Jake is my buddy icon…if you know what I mean…

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