Hollywood Needs Better Casting

This isn’t the old days when David Carradine could pass as a Chinese kung fu master. And while it’s not necessarily news, it comes as a surprise to me that the producers of the Prince of Persia movie would choose an American actor to play an ethnic role. Jake Gyllenhaal, although a great actor in his own right, should not have been selected. Hasn’t anyone learned anything from the recent Dragonball movie flop? GMR recently did some research to confirm that Jake Gyllenhaal is indeed white.

No Need for High Profile Actors

There is no doubt in my mind that the movie will go on to become a huge box office success thanks to Hollywood marketing, but that’s more so because of the great concept of the film versus the actors chosen. We’ve seen how Paranormal Activity and Transformers II performed so well in theaters without any real star power – the fresh concepts won out. Someone in Hollywood should be willing to take the risk on an unknown Persian actor for the sake of authenticity if nothing else.

Would you appreciate Hollywood taking a risk in an unknown actor and aiming for a more authentic film?

Check out the all new trailer for Prince of Persia: Sands of Time starring Jake Gyllenhaal and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Plot: 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.

[source: IMDB]

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Movie Poster

Will you be on time for opening night?