Prince of Persia – Two New Shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal Pics

The first two photos of a shirtless Jake Gyllenhaal in Walt Disney Pictures‘ “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” have popped online over at The Huffington Post.

Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it's up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.

“I over-prepared myself because I never knew how much they were going to ask me to do, so I just made sure I'd be hopefully able to do anything,” Gyllenhaal said of his new physique. “I guess I've gotten buff. There's a lot acrobatics in the movie – a lot of running up walls, and jumping on things and Parkour, so it requires muscularity, but it requires a lot of aerobic ability too.”

Jake Gyllenhaal |Prince Of Persia

The film is directed by Mike Newell, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Gemma Arterton, Toby Kebbell, Alfred Molina, Reece Ritchie, Richard Coyle, Gísli Örn Garðarsson and Steve Toussaint.

“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” is scheduled to hit theatres on May 28th, 2010.