RED SERPENT: JORDAN MECHNER RELEASES THE LAST EXPRESS PREQUEL SCRIPT
Following the recent mix-down of his post Prince of Persia adventure game The Last Express to more quickly-digestible video form, Jordan Mechner has just dug up and released Red Serpent — the unfinished first draft script of what would have become a prequel to Express.
Set 10 years before Express and starring that game’s main character Robert Cath, Mechner notes that “the plot bears a more-than-slight resemblance to The Da Vinci Code, which would be published the following year,” and says “I’d guess that Dan Brown and I had been reading the same pseudo-historical “research,” including Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent and Leigh (who did, in fact, sue Brown for plagiarism, and lost).”
The 48 page script [direct PDF link] was dropped quickly after it had begun in 2002, as his involvement on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time took up the majority of his time. Says Mechner: “It was the right decision.”
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