{"id":529,"date":"2008-06-03T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:52:53","slug":"prince-of-persia-taking-on-a-definite-spider-man-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/prince-of-persia-taking-on-a-definite-spider-man-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"PRINCE OF PERSIA Taking on a Definite SPIDER-MAN Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121105124840\/http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117986761?refCatId=13\">Variety<\/a> is announcing that Alfred Molina has joined the cast of Disney&#8217;s adaptation of Ubisoft&#8217;s popular video game franchise, <strong>Prince of Persia<\/strong>. His hiring has added to the general overall <strong>Spider-Man <\/strong>feel.<\/p>\n<p>We all know that Molina portrayed the tortured villain Otto Octavius in 2004&#8217;s <strong>Spider-Man 2<\/strong>. But Jake Gyllenhaal, who previously signed as the lead in <strong>Prince of Persia<\/strong>, was set to step in for Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker\/Spider-Man for that sequel if Maguire&#8217;s back problems kept him from that role.<\/p>\n<p>Another member of <strong>Persia&#8217;s <\/strong>announced cast has a <strong>Spider-Man <\/strong>connection. Ben Kingsley was in negotiations to possibly play the Vulture in 2007&#8217;s <strong>Spider-Man 3<\/strong>. Early versions of the script featured the winged villain, but he never made the final cut.<\/p>\n<p>We might never get a <strong>Spider-Man 4<\/strong>, but the spirit of the franchise lives on in <strong>Prince of Persia. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Variety is announcing that Alfred Molina has joined the cast of Disney&#8217;s adaptation of Ubisoft&#8217;s popular video game franchise, Prince of Persia. His hiring has added to the general overall Spider-Man feel. We all know <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/03\/prince-of-persia-taking-on-a-definite-spider-man-feel\/\" title=\"PRINCE OF PERSIA Taking on a Definite SPIDER-MAN Feel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[21,22,71],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-casting","8":"tag-in-development","9":"tag-video-games"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}