Newell, who sat down with Rotten Tomatoes to talk about the film, stated "It's not a video game movie, it's a great story. If you had read the script, you would know that it wasn't a video game. It's very exciting and it's immensely romantic and it's like Lost Horizon. It takes you to somewhere you've never been."
The film will be based predominantly on the Sands of Time iteration of the Prince of Persia series, and has been scripted by game creator Jordan Mechner and Jeffrey Nachmanoff (who was responsible for the script for global warming apocalyptic thriller, The Day After Tomorrow). Despite the recent Hollywood writer's strike, the film has recently gone into production. Newell seemed excited to be working on the film, saying, "I'm full of ... ideas. It'll be terrific."
Newell did, however, leave one cryptic hint for those interested in the plot of the film. "You know what Stonehenge is? Stonehenge is a machine that tells you that the world will survive because every year the sun comes up in exactly the same place." Make of that what you will, dear reader.
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