A couple of months ago it was announced that Martin Scorsese’s next film would be an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, filmed from a script by John Logan (Gladiator). Deadline now has the news that Scorsese is now in talks with two actors for this project: Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley.

Baron Cohen would reportedly play the station inspector, who I believe acts as some sort of antagonist to the main character, a 12 year-old orphan living in a Parisian train station in the 1930s. Baron Cohen hasn’t appeared in much apart from his characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno, so I guess it’ll be interesting to see him in a less outrageous role, in a more narrative-based film.

Kingsley is in discussion to portray George Méliès, the real-life film director (who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries), and a central character in the story. I haven’t read the book yet, but this seems like spot-on casting – it’s not hard to picture him as the old director, building things in his workshop.

It was also recently suggested in a Variety article that Scorsese is interested in filming Hugo Cabret in 3D. The visuals should be unique at least, if they stick closely to the book, so let’s hope that this casting is as good as it sounds, and that the intriguing premise of the plot holds up too.

UGO received the final poster for Prince of Perisa: The Sands of Time which features Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan, Gemma Arterton as Tamina, and Ben Kingsley as Nizam. I’m sure the marketing guys at Disney could have come up with something a bit more creative, but it does it’s job.

Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it’s up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will be released on May 28th.

Disney has released a second trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The first trailer has been keeping me entertained for the past few months, so it’s good to have another epic trailer to stick on repeat. This new one explains more of the story and showcases a bunch of special effects heavy scenes, which are probably completed by now seeing as though the film was originally going to be released last summer.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina and will be released on May 28th.

You can check out Filmonic’s Prince of Persia gallery here!

“It is, by definition, epic” – Sir Ben Kinglsey, this new featurette

IGN got their hands on another featurette for Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. This one focuses on how ‘epic’ the film be and we see shots of the vast Moroccan landscape, scenes involving hundreds of extras, and a bunch of guys riding ostriches. While on the subject of mounting exotic creatures, did I mention Gemma Arterton is looking rather…hot?

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time will be released on May 28th.

Less than 24 hours ago we got our first look at a trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and now we have another one. This one is an international trailer, although it doesn’t specify where, so lets just assume it’s for Ireland. It shows lots of new footage and is set up completely different to the first trailer. I prefer the trailer we got yesterday as it was a bit more epic, but this one is still cool.

Watch the Irish trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time below!

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley and will be released next May.

The trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was broadcast on UK TV earlier today and had found it’s way onto YouTube in sub-par quality. IGN were originally going to officially release the trailer at 7pm PST, however as it was already online they decided to put it out there early in HD, and I’m glad they did. It’s quite good.

I didn’t really know what to expect from this. Jerry Bruckheimer wanted to create a new franchise after Pirates of the Caribbean, and from the trailer it looks like Persia is going to be huge. It’s a special effects heavy blockbuster, with two good looking leads and lots of action. Who won’t be seeing this?

Yesterday we got posters of Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan and Gemma Arterton as Tamina, now it’s time for us to see the face of the bad guy in the form of Sir Ben Kingsley. In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Kingsley plays Nizam, the brother of King Shahrman of Persia, who he kills and, like the evil son of a moose he is, puts the blame on Dastan. Nizam then claims the throne of Persia and, in order to achieve immortality and power, he seeks the Sands of Time to eventually take over the world.

From UGO:

Okay let me get my villain check list out: 1) British actor 2) Evil facial hair 3) Wants to take over the world. Yep, this is our villain.

Seanbajuice directed us to our first look at Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In the video below you will see producer Jerry Bruckheimer talking about the actors (Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley), the characters and story. However the best bits are when we are shown snippets of footage throughout interview. Watch below!

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time still has another year to go before it is released, so I doubt we will be getting much over the next few months, unless they plan on releasing a teaser during this summer’s movie season.

Defamer got themself a picture of Sir Ben Kingsley taking a break from filming Prince of Persia. I like how he’s got that ‘evil moustache’ thing going on, I mean how are we supposed to know he’s playing the villain if he hasn’t got an ‘evil moustache’?

Sir Ben has been hit and miss with his movies. He won an Oscar and has been nominated quite a few times, however he did have a role in BloodRayne and more recently, The Love Guru. Lets hope Prince of Persia doesn’t turn out crappy.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been pushed back from June 19th 2009 to May 28th 2010. This is to avoid competition from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which would have been released a week after. Now it will go up against Shrek Goes Fourth and Thor, which will be released a week before and a week after Persia.

The cast of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley and Alfred Molina.