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00:13The video game
00:13was what started us.
00:15Jordan came in and pitched a very compelling story
00:17and then he wrote the first screenplay
00:19and then we brought some other writers in
00:21who kept adding layers to it.
00:24The world was so wonderful
00:25and I found this book called
00:27The Orientalists which was
00:29all these paintings from that period
00:31or about that period that were just
00:33spectacular. Prince of Persia
00:35as a video game was really inspired
00:37by the
00:39old tales of the thousand and one nights
00:41and to research it I went
00:43back to those tales and to the
00:45the Persian Book of Kings
00:47which is just this great world
00:49of legends and heroes
00:50and a lot of that found its way into the movie as well.
00:53It was very realistic
00:55to what the video game was
00:57so you had desert, you had palaces
00:58and all the things that the video game gave you
01:00and that's why Morocco is such a great location.
01:02To actually shoot the movie
01:05on location in Morocco
01:06with these ancient cities
01:08and incredible desert landscapes
01:10just really brought an element
01:12that was beyond what we could create
01:15with pixels on a screen.
01:16I chose to shoot the film in Morocco
01:18after thinking about several other places.
01:21I thought about Jordan
01:23I thought about Israel
01:24I thought about Spain
01:26all of whom have deserts.
01:28In the end we went to Morocco
01:30because what I loved
01:32was the mix of desert
01:37and mountain
01:38and sometimes Morocco is very green
01:42weirdly enough, it's very green.
01:44It's an enormously film friendly place
01:47but the real thing was the look of it
01:49and how grand
01:52and harsh
01:53and dramatic
01:56the landscape was.
01:57It is 135 degrees
01:59and you're going to lose
02:01a lot of sweat
02:05and we used to come out
02:07at the end of the day
02:08and our eyes around there
02:11would be crusted with salt
02:13because we'd squinted
02:15against the light the whole time
02:16and we were sweating at the same time.
02:18But of course you never feel
02:21the sweat
02:22because it's evaporating
02:24straight off you.
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