Eman Ayaz, the actor believed to be taking part in Farah within the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, has stated she came upon – like the remainder of us – that the undertaking had been cancelled on-line.
“Final week I skilled probably the most devastating second of my profession,” Eman Ayaz stated in a video shared on X. Her brother messaged her asking if she was okay, which prompted a puzzled response, so he despatched her a hyperlink to the information after which she realised what was happening. “And that is the place I learn it has been shelved perpetually,” Ayaz stated. “I used to be simply in whole shock.”
Ayaz, 26 years outdated, doesn’t identify the undertaking she was concerned in, for NDA causes. Nor does she point out Ubisoft or Prince of Persia or Sands of Time. However the timelines match up – Ubisoft introduced it was cancelling the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake final week – and Ayaz has allegedly retweeted Prince of Persia content material on her X account earlier than, although I can not discover these tweets – maybe they’ve been deleted. That is what folks on Reddit appear to counsel.
“We had been all actually wanting ahead to it being launched this yr”
In her video, Ayaz stated this undertaking was “life-changing” for her, as a result of there aren’t many large roles for Canadian Pakistanis, who are typically “unplaceable” from a casting standpoint. She stated she landed the job three years in the past after a “rigorous” audition course of and was planning to make use of its launch to springboard a transfer to the US. This was her stepping-stone second however now it is to not be.
“I’ve devoted the final three years of my life to this undertaking,” Ayaz stated; she even went so far as appearing with a damaged foot, apparently. “And I’ve waited and waited for the day it was lastly going to be launched and I may lastly speak about it.” She filmed advertising materials just lately, she stated, inside the previous couple of months. “We had been all actually wanting ahead to it being launched this yr, so it felt like emotional whiplash to search out this out in such a random method.”
As a result of the undertaking has been cancelled, Ayaz cannot apparently publicly connect her identify to it. “It is simply as if it by no means existed,” she stated, “which is a tough factor to wrap your head round when it has been your life for therefore lengthy. This undertaking existed, even when the world by no means obtained to see it.”
Ubisoft introduced the Sands of Time remake cancellation final week as a part of main restructuring on the firm, closing two studios, cancelling six tasks, and delaying a number of different video games. The Sands of Time remake was the one cancelled sport named, and the blanket purpose given for the cancellations was the video games “don’t meet the brand new enhanced high quality [and] extra selective portfolio prioritisation standards”. The Sands of Time undertaking had been struggling for some time, nevertheless, having been introduced in 2020 and struggling a number of delays since then.
The restructuring knocked a 3rd off of Ubisoft’s share value, and strikes are anticipated in France, the place Ubisoft is headquartered, in response to a voluntary redundancy initiative.
