Mechner wrote the initial screenplays for the film despite having limited success in Hollywood.
Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia, was recently a guest on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, and in the process shared some fascinating background on the making of its Hollywood film. This included how he ended up writing the original story for its 2010 adaptation, despite being “completely unproven” as a screenwriter at the time.
If you’ve read Mechner’s “The Making of Prince of Persia” journals, you’ll probably already know that the game developer had been trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood for over a decade by this point, but had only experienced limited success in all that time putting together the occasional short film and penning scripts for unproduced projects like Birthstone, Birds of Paradise, and In The Dark.
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Mechner wrote the initial screenplays for the film despite having limited success in Hollywood.
Jordan Mechner, the creator of Prince of Persia, was recently a guest on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, and in the process shared some fascinating background on the making of its Hollywood film. This included how he ended up writing the original story for its 2010 adaptation, despite being “completely unproven” as a screenwriter at the time.
If you’ve read Mechner’s “The Making of Prince of Persia” journals, you’ll probably already know that the game developer had been trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood for over a decade by this point, but had only experienced limited success in all that time putting together the occasional short film and penning scripts for unproduced projects like Birthstone, Birds of Paradise, and In The Dark.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
