It’s being circulated that Orlando Bloom has landed the lead role for the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer franchise “Prince of Persia“. The franchise will be based on the popular video game series of the same name and is scheduled to start production soon.
This casting makes sense for a couple of reasons:
1) Bruckheimer worked with Bloom with the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and so they’re already familiar with each other
2) Bloom seems to find a way to land parts in huge trilogies (Pirates, Lord of the Rings)
3) All video game movies suck… so since Orlando Bloom can’t act worth a lick, it makes perfect sense to put him as the lead in a doomed to suck (but will still make ungodly amounts of money) franchise like this one.
The deal is reportedly worth about $40 million for Bloom (I believe that’s the total for all three films, which is about $37 more than he’s worth). $40 MILLION of the budget is being tied up in one guy. A guy who can’t act and whose films apart from the trilogies have proved he’s NOT a box office draw. This is seriously making me scratch my head.
Although I’ve always said video game movies suck, I’ve also said that the law of averages dictates that EVENTUALLY one will come out that’s pretty solid. I thought Prince of Persia had the POTENTIAL to MAYBE be that film… but I’ve just lost a lot of hope for it. As always, we’ll have to wait and see it to be sure.
So what do you think of Orlando Bloom as the Prince?
**UPDATE** There are some conflicting reports going around now. My friend Neil over at FSR says Hollywood.Com is also reporting the story, but that he talked so someone over at Disney who claims this report is not true. However, a call I placed said the story was true. I don’t PERSONALLY know the person I talked to, so I’m not sure which to believe at this point. The story is also being reported by The Sun.
