Keynote Announcement for IN 2010

2010-08-06

Author, screenwriter and video game designer Jordan is best known as the creator of the Prince of Persia franchise, with over 14 million games sold to date, and a feature film, books, toys and LEGO based on the games.

Mechner became the first game creator to successfully adapt his own work as a feature film screenwriter with Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, directed by Mike Newell and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Alfred Molina, Prince of Persia was the #1 movie in the world for its first two weeks of release in May 2010, and is the world’s highest-grossing video game adaptation ever. Mechner has screen story and executive producer credit on the film.

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