From EW (they get all the cool pictures) here’s your first look at Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia plus swords. I feel like I’ve been hearing about this movie for a decade, but it’s stil almost a year away in May 2010.

As much as I like to make fun of this project, I have to admit that it’s the first video game movie that looks like a serious amount of effort is going into it. And I don’t just mean in scope and scale, the fact that it’s big name Bruckheimer and Gyllenhaal behind it indicate a different level of commitment to the genre we hadn’t seen before.

By no means do I expect this movie to be good, but at least you can tell it’s trying.

Also, I miss Gore Verbinski’s sunk Bioshock adaptation….