Prince of Persia:The Sands of Time

[Iron_Stark]

So they're getting a white guy to play a Persian?

[Hunter Rider]

Originally Posted by TNC9852002

Hmmm...casting based on typical looks can only go so far...I still think it's much easier to look at a guy that has had a similar look of a character and you can just see it. As for Jake, I don't think it's really fair because we haven't seen him where he's made to look like this character.

and it was just as I remembered, when RDJ was announced for Iron Man, a few people were pretty outraged. Maybe he's not the best example here, but you get my meaning.

-TNC

I'm more than willing to see how this plays out, I think Jake is a very good actor, there is just nothing about him that strikes me as fitting this role off the bat, but Bruckheimer doesn't back duds as a rule.

With RDJ it was the fact he'd never played a hero lead and he was getting old for a franchise as i recall.

Originally Posted by Iron_Stark

So they're getting a white guy to play a Persian?

No the article is lying.

[Crook]

Originally Posted by DorkyFresh

however, i am getting concerned with Hollywood casting Caucasian actors in roles for characters that were originally meant to be of foreign ethnicity. i know many will argue, but Chatwin was cast as Goku (Asian origins) and now Gyllenhaal as a Persian prince.

Hollywood's been doing that since....forever.

Originally Posted by Hunter Rider

With RDJ it was the fact he'd never played a hero lead and he was getting old for a franchise as i recall.

RDJ is a completely different situation. His only drawback was his age. Despite that, he looked and acted like the character from the books.

I like Jake, but christ, I see nothing about him that strikes me as the Prince. I guess I'll wait it out, but I have a huge feeling I'm gonna be laughing my ass off at the first promo pics. Can't wait to see what they do with that.

[the a1ant]

Gyllenhaul is a great actor, but I'm just not liking this choice for many reasons. I'm sure he'll pull it off though in the acting though. Don't know what to think of Gemma Arterton, but they could have at least tried harder to stick to the character's background roots.

[M.O.Steel]

i'm so excited to hear this. i have general questions. i loved the very very original game. is this movie based on that? i heard a long time ago that the sands of time was a remake of the original game.

thanks for clearing it up.

[M.O.Steel]

Originally Posted by Iron_Stark

So they're getting a white guy to play a Persian?

well, andy samderg did call mahmoud ahmadinejad his hairy jake gyllenhaal.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/68943/detail/

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I like Jake G and knew that they would cast a white guy but that still doesn't make the official news anyless disappointing. Oh well, no one ever said that hollywood wasn't racist.

[Savage]

Eh. I'm gonna wait for a pic on this one. Yeah, I guess he'll look like him with the make up and all and Gyllenhaal is a great actor...but it's just disappointing that Hollywood opted for the facepaint route with this.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I don't care what anyone says this is the same thing as blackface and the asian make-up jobs hollywood did in the past. Again I knew it was going to happen but that doesn't make it right.

[terry78]

I figured they were gonna do it. Honestly, there are no young bankable Middle Eastern actors out there right now, except overseas. I would have liked them to cast an unknown and just made the rest of the cast A-listers to balance it out, but whatever.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

^Jake isn't bankable though. Very few actors are.

[Hunter Rider]

With the budget this is gonna have it's good business to cast an American that is at least well known.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

^It is good business to cast a white guy but it isn't right. I know life isn't fair but I'm still going to point out the racism of hollywood.

I'm sure you don't mean it but white doesn't equal american. There are are brownskined americans like myself. They didn't have to cast a foirgner.

Sorry it just irks me when, eventhough people don't mean it, it seems they are saying white=american.

[Hunter Rider]

It's not racism it's business, if there were a well known Persian actor who was popular in the states and had been in a number of high profile movies, and they didn't cast him, that would be racist, however there is no such actor so it's good business to cast a lead that ppl know of in the US, and that means either a white or black actor.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

We are going to have to agree to disagree Hunter. Ofcourse there aren't any popular actors from anywhere near that region, they all have to play terrorists. Just like most black actors still have to play drug dealers/side/token black characters and asian actors play smart ect ect..

[SapphirePrima]

The studios should have enough faith in the material and fanbase of this movie to take a chance on casting an unknown actor, who is persian. But they don't.I can understand casting Jake, but they could of casted a persian actress for the lead. : They're are plenty of them who would of fit the role.

[Nightmare]

A prince of persia movie with no persian! Blasphemy!!!!!

[Hunter Rider]

Originally Posted by SapphirePrima

The studios should have enough faith in the material and fanbase of this movie to take a chance on casting an unknown actor, who is persian. But they don't.I can understand casting Jake, but they could of casted a persian actress for the lead. : They're are plenty of them who would of fit the role.

The fanbase is not big enough to risk that much money on an unknown but i do agree that they could have cast an persian female lead.

[Octoberist]

i do declare that the actress could've been Iranian, but the girl that they got is smoking hot though.

[Mr. Credible]

they could have picked a persian actress, but i think they thought that would have made jake's non-ethnicity stand out like a sore thumb.

[Gotham]

Wow! They really cast Jake? That's great.

[Dark Donnie]

There is absolutely nothing racist about Jake being cast.....Anyway I love it personally. Haven't really been keeping tabs, but I will now.

[SapphirePrima]

Originally Posted by Hunter Rider

The fanbase is not big enough to risk that much money on an unknown but i do agree that they could have cast an persian female lead.

I'm all for colorblind casting but this is alas this is Hollywood and all that matters is how much they make and not the quality.

[M.O.Steel]

alot of hispanic actors can double for middle eastern also, if they couldn't find a bankable middle eastern actor.

in light of the recent JLA news, DJ cotrona could have worked.

but i still like this casting of jake, he has a bit of ethnicity to him. he doesn't look like typical white american.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by WhySoSerious??

A prince of persia movie with no persian! Blasphemy!!!!!

Yup. Irony at it's finest. Kind of like "The Last Samurai" starring Tom Cruise...except much worse (though I will admit I liked the movie itself).

Though I must say, if the fight scenes are anything like the games then I'm there opening day. I mean most of the crap that The Prince pulls off can only be done by circus performers and CGI. The guy gives Spider-man a run for his money.