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.
Interesting picture, J. Should I be worried?
@ AnaDVR you took the words right out of my mouth. This is almost as bad as the Pac Man movie I heard about.
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PAC MAN MOVIE?! What?!
Wow Jason…I’m at a loss for words…
Yeah, was going to write about the Pac-Man movie sometime
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.
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.
So, Jason, you just stole your screen saver for this article and are now trying to pass it off as “for the ladies”. Nice.
Zing!
LOL! If only you knew.
His screen saver is Jack Bauer, not Jake Gyllenhaal. He likes his men manly!
Yeah! Jake is my buddy icon…if you know what I mean…