Whats 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. He’s a hands-on producer who’s involved in every aspect of his films. When he took on Prince of Persia it instantly gave everyone confidence and made the project real. What was it like for you to get the job of translating your game to film? There haven’t been a lot of videogame designers that have made the transition to screenwriting, so the situation with Prince of Persia was in some ways unprecedented. An executive on the movie told me later that when they’d made the deal, they hadn’t really counted on me turning in a usable script. They figured that as the “game guy,” what I wrote would just be a starting point so they could then hire the real writers. To their surprise, I delivered a first draft that was solidly crafted. I did the first few sets of revisions and worked with them on it for about a year and
