Exodus: Gods and Kings
Ridley Scott and diachronic epics are in many ways synonymous ( see:1492 : Conquest of Paradise , Gladiator , Kingdom of HeavenandRobin Hood ) , so it ’s fitting that he ’s at the helm of the next big Biblical adaptation of 2014,Exodus : Gods and business leader . The film - originallyknown as simplyExodus- also boast a rather telling lineage of acting gift led by Christian Bale playing Moses - as feature in a new - released image gallery , offering an other look at such actors asJoel Edgerton(The Great Gatsby ) as Ramses and Scott’sAlienleading lady Sigourney Weaver as Queen Tuya ( a role handle by Irene Martin in Cecil B. DeMille ’s far-famed 1956 Biblical motion-picture show , The Ten Commandments ) .
Indeed , that Charlton Heston - starring rendition of the Moses tarradiddle has and certainly will continue to , cast a long shadow overExodus , though Bale ( during an consultation withEW ) said that"there was lots of room for us to go places that ' The Ten Commandments ' never dream of going . “Likewise , Scott has long insistedthat he ’s not so much concerned in covering"the large stuff that everybody knows"about the Moses story ( though he ’s also promised that sequences like the Parting of the Red Sea inExoduswill be"f***ing huge " ) - having toldEW,“What I call back I knew about Moses I did n’t really . ”
Here is some more perceptivity from Scott , on that matter :
“ Either I was n’t bear tending in Sunday school or I had forgotten . I was knocked out by who he was and the basics of the story — it has to be one of the large dangerous undertaking and spiritual experience that could ever have been . ”
In add-on to Bale , Edgerton , and Weaver , theExoduscast includes Ben Kingsley ( Iron Man 3 ) as the Hebrew assimilator Nun , Aaron Paul ( separate Bad ) as the Hebrew slave Joshua , and John Turturro ( Gods Behaving Badly ) as the Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I - father to Ramses . The below simulacrum veranda offer a fink peek at sure , but not all , of these player in Scott ’s new pic .
Per usual , the costumes , scene , and overall product purpose by Arthur Max ( Scott ’s frequent collaborator for intimately twenty year now ) forExoduslook as handsome and tangible as that have in old diachronic adventures directed by Scott ; then again , few have accused the filmmaker ’s polarizing releases in recent years ( Prometheus , The Counselor ) of being any less visually beautiful than his early work .
One of the grown wild wag factors here is the playscript , as cooked up by Bill Collage and Adam Cooper ( Accepted , Tower Heist ) ; bet on how they ’ve re - fancy the tale of Moses , Scott ’s picture show could attract more , less , or adequate amounts of controversy liken to Darren Aronofsky’sNoahfrom sooner this twelvemonth . The authorship duette have already been entrusted to work on a number ofother big projects in developing , so hopefully that ’s a sign that we can expect right thing from their body of work onExodus .
hegira : Gods and Kingsopens in U.S. theatre on December 12th , 2014 .
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