Jake Gyllenhaal- Prince of Persia

By Kathy Esmeraldo at 10 April, at 10 : 02 AM

Jake Gyllenhaal thinks portraying the lead character in Prince of Persia: Sands of time says its ‘awesome’ for the fact that he is a huge fan of the original video game.

The 29 year old actor portrays hero Dastan in the forthcoming action movie -written by the game’s creator Jordan Mechner. Jake admits he is still struggling to comprehend the fact he play’s one of his childhood digital hero on the big screen.

He said: ‘I played the original side-scrolling version of the game when I was a kid. And then I took a little hiatus. ’I was actually kind of tripping out on that with Jordan the other day. I was saying to him, ‘Who knew when I was playing it – after I closed out ‘Oregon Trail’ and went over to my ‘Prince of Persia’ game when I was I don’t know how old, maybe eight or something – who knew I would be playing the Prince of Persia?’ It’s kind of awesome.’

Jake insists the movie adaptation of this video game will be better than any other video game that has been showed on the big screen, the fact that they put much care with scripting the action scenes.

He explained to MTV News: ‘The reason why most video games movies haven’t been successful up until now is the fact that most of the action that takes place is stuff that we’ve seen before [in the game], but hasn’t had a reason in the story line that makes sense.

‘So, in this movie we decided that everything the prince did in the movie had to have a reason. If he were going to jump on a wall and run over to get away from somebody, or he’s going to jump from building to building, there had to be an obstacle. It had to be based on something that he had learned, or based in the story line.

‘Most of the time you just see really cool stunts and people doing really cool things, but you don’t know why. Our action all ties back into the ultimate story.’

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