‘Prince of Persia’ Pitch Trailer
The following clip is the original pitch trailer put to Disney by Prince of Persia game designer Jordan Mechner.
Everything in it was taken from Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and was used to convince Disney to go forward with the live-action feature film that now stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan.
Watch the trailer after the jump.
Here’s what Mechner had to say about it:
Why did I cut a new trailer, instead of using one of the existing game trailers Ubisoft had already produced to market the Sands of Time game? Because the game marketing trailers were very specific about certain story points that weren’t in the movie (freeze, fast-forward, sand monsters, visions). Co-producer John August and I didn’t want to confuse the execs by showing them a different story from the one we were pitching.
It took me a week to cut on Final Cut Express, in late 2003. Assembling a trailer from existing PS2 game footage was an editing challenge, because key scenes, locations and characters from the movie didn’t exist. So rather than attempt to explicitly tell the story of the movie in the trailer, I set out to convey the kind of movie it would be. (Don’t worry, there are no spoilers — the trailer reveals nothing about the plot of the movie beyond what’s in the game.)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time follows Prince Dasdan who teams up with rival Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) to protect an ancient dagger that could release the Sands of Time, allowing its possessor to reverse time and rule the world.
The $150M (estimated) film is a video game adaptation directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will hit theaters May 28, 2010.
Source: Slashfilm
