[Dyne]

Ancient Persian parkour +1

[Thylacine]

Okay, so they have a love plot that looks decent, the Prince displaying agility, and it looks like they aren't catering to the fanbase too heavily/lightly.

Considering Prince of Persia isn't a child of "movie plot regurgitation" that has resulted in 80% of our VG franchises (Castlevania, Metroid, Donkey Kong - I can go on, and you know I can go on), AND considering we have a real actor, director, and company all at the same time, we MIGHT have a video game movie that doesn't suck. One that could potentially turn into the next trilogy a la PotC.

Fingers crossed, everyone.

[Global-Trance]

Forget the Sands of Time.... gimme some Sands of Tim.

[Nekofrog]

haha

oh wow

white people pretending to be iranian and talking in british accents

hahahahahahahahahahaha

oh, hollywood

anytime a country has a foreign people in an action/adventure movie they always talk in british accents, no matter what

leave it to a furfag to think this looks good

[friendlyHunter]

I'm pretty sure everyone used British accents in the game too.

It's impossible for me to tell by the trailer if the movie's going to be any good or not. It'll likely be better than the average videogame-based movie, but that's not saying much.

[SynthesizedStampede]

You know, I REALLY hate getting my hopes up for movies based on video games, but this one looks pretty alright. I know, I know, it probably won't, and I really do expect it to suck...but what's this?

http://kotaku.com/5397474/test-audie...f-persia-movie

Hmm...first good video game movie adaption? Or maybe its good as a film on itself but not a good translation of the game. I guess we'll have to see, yeah?

[Nekofrog]

Originally Posted by friendlyHunter

I'm pretty sure everyone used British accents in the game too.

It was stupid then, too.

[Kureejii Lea]

Originally Posted by Nekofrog

It was stupid then, too.

Well, what are they going to do, put the entire movie in Farsi with subtitles? Because other than that, the closest to "authentic" would be British English, as that was the form traditionally learned in that region of the world.

You're not supposed to believe they're actually all English speakers in the context of the film, but I think it's better than having the Prince declare he just owned dat Vizier's sucka ass, son.

[Nekofrog]

if they have to, don't use any accents.

that is preferable to standard hollywood-everyone-foreign-is-british shit

[Thylacine]

Originally Posted by Nekofrog

if they have to, don't use any accents.

that is preferable to standard hollywood-everyone-foreign-is-british shit

Have you seen this video before? (Amy Walker, if you're wary of clicking strange Youtube links.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

Old, yes, but it makes a good point: there is ALWAYS an accent. There is no "plain" English, so going with the most likely thing (yes, we got our fill of it in Pirates of the Caribbean, but it's still the best choice we have) is the safest choice. Anything else would sound considerably stranger, even "no accent" from the Midwest U.S.