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Today it was announced that Orlando Bloom will be playing the role of the prince in the new Prince of Persia movie, despite a worlwide survey revealing that 70% of 15 million people voted for actor and real prince of Persia - David K Zandi - to play the role.
But Disney was quick to dispell this 'news' as a rumour, and announced that Orlando Bloom hasn't been cast as the prince. (though they're not ruling him out).
This might be good news, or it might be bad news.
It means that the real prince of Persia (Zandi) and Zac Efron are back in the race to become the star of the PoP movie.
A rumor is spreading fast through the internet (we believe it originated at World Entertainment News Network, aka WENN) that Orlando Bloom has landed a $40 million payday to star in a movie trilogy based on the "Prince of Persian" video game. The rumor stated that he had beaten competition from Zac Efron to take the role and even said that Jerry Bruckheimer will direct.
Walt Disney Pictures, however, tells ComingSoon.net that there is no truth to these rumors.







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If you aren't a gamegrep approver... well then I'm sorry about lashing out at you. What approver did approve this though, this is ridiculous.
Orlando Bloom will NOT play the Prince of Persia!
I fail to see how it's a duplicate.
And for the record, approvers don't approve their own articles.
Try reading before you snap. otherwise you look like a tool and a fool
Anyway i doubt i believe this anyway, but im sure Orlando Bloom will win regardless. He has to, its not smart business not putting someone that the globe doesn't know.
I think one of the better game-to-movie adaptations was Silent Hill because it had many similarities to the game. Sure, the movie wasn't great, but I got a kick out of watching the things like real world "decay" into the Silent Hill world, hearing the siren just before everything went dark, and seeing characters like Lisa Garland and Cybil Bennet play roles that were kinda of similar to their original game roles. (which is more than I can say for that wimpy version of Jill Valentine in the RE movies >_>)
(I'm just glad Capcom have realized the Hollywood RE movies are crap, and are making their own proper Resident Evil movie).
I hope Disney considers about having Zandi star in PoP.
Besides, I'd much rather him play the role because of his acting skills and his resemblance to the Prince (minus the goatee).
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