How much has the Pirates of the Caribbean films influenced the PoP screenplay?
I first saw Pirates on the big screen in Montreal with members of the PoP team. We were in the final stages of making Sands of Time and we’d heard from a lot of people that Pirates had a Prince of Persia feel. I loved it, thought it did a great job of capturing the spirit of those classic adventure movies, but updating it with the kind of spectacular action you expect from a modern summer blockbuster. We hoped to do the same thing in the videogame medium with Sands of Time, and seeing Pirates work so well was inspiring. At that time we didn’t dream that Bruckheimer would be the one to make the POP movie, we were just trying to finish the game by Christmas. “The truth is I’ve always dreamed of Prince of Persia becoming a movie.”What’s it like working with Jerry Bruckheimer, the king of over-the-top movie making? Jerry Bruckheimer is at the top of the pantheon of producers now working in Hollywood because he has shown the ability to deliver on a huge scale, consistently and over decades.
