Pajiba

I am completely willing to overlook said pasty whiteness if only for the fact that Jake looks pretty damn hunky. Oh don't get me wrong, the movie is going to suck, but at least Gyllenhaal serves as decent eye candy.

I'm sorry, but I started laughing so hysterically at his hair that I had no time to appreciate his chest. Hee hee hee. Why am I envisioning John Travolta right now??

Seriously. He's all Beastmasterlicious, sans an angry Rip Torn.

You know if Ahmajinedad looked like this, we'd probably be more receptive to his message of "death to Israel and America"

Oh God! The position of the lamps made me think he had flaming jiz!

Dammit, grammar.

This will also have Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina in it, both of whom would motivate me more to see this than the Geico caveman up there.

How many shitty movies has Ben Kingsley been in recently?

Answer: Holy craps.

He looks like he's auditioning for a Rambo reboot. He's got Sly's blank stare and greasy hair down. Now he just needs Sly's body waxer and he'll be good to go.

How many shitty movies has Ben Kingsley been in recently?
Answer: Holy craps.

Exactly. He provided a good sense of scale to how ill-fitting Gigglehaal seems for this one.

Like using a dollar bill in a photo, or standing Jennifer Love Hewitt back to back with a thimble.

Carrie, I'd suggest that you could fawn over me, but I'm really only big in parts of Eastern Europe right now, and plus, I already have AnnaVB and Jeremy living in the bushes outside my bedroom window. So....

Can I suggest that HOT piece of ass Kris Allen from this season of American Idol?

Seriously, I would drink his bathwater.

I still can't get past:

"will be directed by mike newell and produced by michael bay"

shouldn't that cause some sort of a wormhole or something?

This is reminiscent, much lower quality of writing aside, of Anthony Hopkins playing Othello. What drunk monkey had that dumbass idea?

The guy who played the titular The Rocker from Rock n Rolla is also in this. He looks at least slightly more ethnic than Gyllenhaal, but still kind of hot in a lanky, strung out kind of way. Not that I'd kick Jake out of bed for eating crackers.

Fun fact; Gyllenhaal is half Ashkenazi Jew and half Swedish Royalty. It says so on imdb, so it must be true.

didn't the Prince of Persia wear a shirt? a snazzy armor/vest thing? am i thinking of a different game series? no matter. if Jake is going to be shirtless i will be there. if the movie sucks then i'll have the theater to myself. even better.

how do i join The Pink Hulk fan club?

Cleopatara was mostly the product of several generations of Macedonian brother-sister inbreeding, so I could believe her being pasty (or a hemophiliac). But Gyllenhaal as a Persian? Doesn't Iran have it's own film industry? Couldn't Newell have gotten an Iranian actor to be in this movie? Or at least an Iranian-American actor?

Oded Fehr does seem like he would have been an obvious choice.

Correct on that one Pook. Like Paul Mooney said on Chappelle's show: "The Last Samurai, starring Tom Cruise. That's like The Last Nig*** on the Face of the Earth, starring Tom Hanks".

Jake is a good-looking guy. A good-looking guy who simply must keep his hair short.

How about John Wayne as Genghis Khan Pooks? Or Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Is there some sort of optical illusion happening on Jake's pants in the first picture? Is it supposed to be making me feel funny down there or should I be seeing a boat?

Holy Godtopus, that's hot.

Coincidentally enough, I just started playing the game, and it kicks all kinds of ass. And to tell you the truth, the Prince in the game doesn't look much darker than Gyllenghal does in these photos. In fact, it seems to be a pretty decent bit of casting, except for the fact that Jake up there doesn't really look like he could run along walls and repeatedly stab things in the face like you do in the game. But I'll give him (and the movie) the benefit of the doubt.

Snath, that's hilarious. I hate running out of sand. Makes for a lot of "noooooo!" on my part.

I think the best is Joel Grey as Chun in Remo Williams.

He's all kinds of badass. I'm wearing a Resident Evil: Extinction shirt right now, and I even happened to catch that movie on TV this weekend. He's one of the only reasons I watch those movies. Well, him and Mila.

And zombies. Lots and lots of zombies.

@Carrie
James McAvoy.

Hollywood why you gotta rape my vidya games huh?

Has there ever been an Asian Fu Manchu? Or an Asian Charlie Chan?

I'm with Sabrina and Eep. You're tryin' to be all racially sensitive, Jaci, but you named two men from India and one from Israel as more appropriate to play a Persian.

My college roommate was from Iran, and she was paler than Jake. Had almost as much facial hair, much to her dismay,* but she was beautiful.

*Lots of waxing and bleaching.

Julie, I did the exact same thing. Saw Gyllenhaal's hair and started laughing hysterically, too, but followed by a serious "What the hell happened to his hair?"

whitewashing motherfuckers.

I stared at the picture a bit more (not for THAT reason!) and figured out my problem. It's the eyes! They don't look fierce enough. Sorry he looks like someone my gran (were she still alive, Goad rest her cantankerous soul) would walk up to and just pinch on the cheeks.

I could just see her saying "Oh oh.Granny nice child!"

Nope not a Persian killing machine. Just a cute fluffy bunny.

You know, kind of like Daniel-Day Lewis wasn't portraying a Mohican in "Last of the Mohicans

I think he was portraying a white guy who was adopted by Mohicans.

And CatBallou, I'm not trying to be all racially sensitive, I'm only suggesting (violently) that they cast a Middle-Eastern man in the role of a Middle-Eastern character. If I remember right from high school history classes, there were a buttload of nomadic Persian tribes who probably didn't stop at the present-day Iranian border. And also, I could be wrong on this, so go ahead and correct me if I am, but the Persians had a giant-ass empire that emcompassed parts of modern-day India, Israel, and Iran back when this film is set.

It's really not that ridiculous of a concept. There are plenty of Native-American roles filled by other tribes. In The New World they cast a South-American Indian as Pocahontas, and in Last of the Mohicans Uncas was played by an Inuit actor. To suggest they do the same for a movie set in the Middle-East isn't really 'racially sensitive' as much as 'more freaking accurate than a white dude.'

Sorry, guys, but Persian and Arab are not the same thing. There's a significant portion of Persians who consider themselves "Aryan," and therefore white. http://www.iranchamber.com/people/articles/aryan_people_origins.php

So this isn't really like Gyllennhlalalalala doing blackface at all. Persian people consider Iran the cradle of Indo-European culture. Mike Newell gets a pass from me for that.

Now, Jake's hair? THAT's offensive.

a lot of people on here arn't pleased with Jake appearence so the solution, send him to my house. you won't see him for a couple of months i guarantee it ;)

I still say he looks too damn wussy to be the Prince of Persia. Muscles aside, he just doesn't LOOK TOUGH! Yeah in the story line the Prince wanted to prove himself but uh uh.

They might as well just slap in the Rock and say "Here! Go stab some stuff!"