Jake Gyllenhaal might be homogenous

So the rumors say.

May 26, 2010 at 8:43PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The headline for this piece says "'Prince of Persia" director worried film may be homogenous." I'm sure if the movie makes 250 million dollars he'll stay up nights staring at the ceiling, his success tasting like ashes in his mouth, because that movie was too homogenous. One day his wife finds him in the bathroom, with bloody knuckles, the mirror shattered. What happened? I couldn't take it! I had to give that smug homogenous sell-out a poke in the face!

Let's go to the interview, which was apparently conducted over a bad connection duri

At this point the director asked the interviewer why he was shouting, and the rest of the conversation took place without the capsloc. Here's my own question: Why does Jake have a British accent if he's the prince of, you know, Persia? Or, as the interviewer might say, PERSIA?

Reviews are pouring in; here's the featured review on the imdb page:

I'm always looking for good Swords battles, so sounds fun. By the way, the fact that there's a Prince of Persia movie is a source of endless amusement to those of us who played the game about nine hundred years ago in black-and-white glory. It's like making a movie of Rock-Paper-Scissors. I know, I know, don't give them ideas. Jack Black as the Rock! Ian McKellen as the devious, brilliant Mr. Scissors! Scarlett Johannsen as Paper!

(Corrected to make speling of some words more gud. Can't type today; fingers like bratwurst.)

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