"It's just as if it never existed" Following Ubisoft's Prince of Persia remake cancellation, actor discusses losing three years worth of work

"It brought retired what I honestly judge is the champion show of my vocation and present cipher is ever going to spot that"

Last week, Ubisoft canned the long-in-development Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake amid a raft of cancellations and delays which person travel to service arsenic the starting doorbell for a clump of organisational changes that are presently crystalising into occupation cuts. Now, histrion Eman Ayaz has released a video successful which she discusses having learned past week that 3 years worthy of her enactment connected an unnamed task had been tipped down the drain.

The video doesn't spot Ayaz specify that the task she's talking astir is the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, with the histrion claiming aboriginal connected that she's "still nether NDA". According to IGN and VGC, Ayaz has seperately reposted immoderate comments from fans which suggest the Sands of Time remake is the task she's referring to here.

"I've dedicated the past 3 years of my beingness to this task and spent those years getting to cognize the team, which has go similar a household to me," Ayaz said. I've watched it turn done countless stages of improvement and I've waited and waited for the time that it was yet going to beryllium released and I could yet speech astir it. And this week I recovered retired done the net that the task has been cancelled."

According to the actor, she recovered retired astir the cancellation aft her member spotted an nonfiction astir it. "I was conscionable successful full shock," she recalled. "Just past period oregon 2 months ago, I had filmed selling for this project. Everything had been moving smoothly and that was the past that I had heard and we were each truly looking guardant to it being released this year."

Ayaz claimed she turned down "other opportunities" portion moving connected the task and opted to support coming to enactment connected it with a breached foot. Following the cancellation, the Canadian Pakistani histrion has had to wantonness plans to use for a visa to enactment successful the US and purpose to onshore gigs determination disconnected the backmost of having the now-cancelled task connected her resume.

In their connection astir the Sands of Time remake's cancellation, Ubisoft wrote that "while the task had existent potential, we weren’t capable to scope the level of prime you deserve, and continuing would person required much clip and concern than we could responsibly commit". The institution besides added that they "didn’t privation to merchandise thing that fell abbreviated of what The Sands of Time represents".

"Sadly, the amusement manufacture is not truly conscionable astir entertainment," Ayaz said towards the extremity of her video. "It's astir guaranteeing a currency flow. And that means making decisions that dainty people's lives arsenic collateral harm and creation arsenic disposable content. I'm not the lone idiosyncratic that this determination affects, and it's a truly bittersweet happening to spot the aversion to hazard successful the amusement industry."