The Fresh Prince of Persia
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Hmm. I don’t know why they’re using the Sin City filter on this movie poster, or why they’ve chosen the most modern font possible for the title, since the movie takes place in the Middle East about 1000 years ago. Nonetheless, here is Jake Gyllenhaal as The Prince of Persia. Who, if you recall, is not a prince in the movie. Still, I’ll give them credit — he looks just like he did in the game. The fact that Disney is producing even just a visually accurate videogame movie is absolutely blowing my mind. (Via Joystick Division)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.