Exodus: Gods and Kings

Synopsis

In Ancient Egypt , two princes, Ramses and Moses , are raised as brothers. As Ramses becomes pharaoh of Egypt, Moses learns his belonging to the Hebrew people, enslaved for centuries.

When God asks Moses to release his people, the exodus out of Egypt begins.

Technical sheet

• French and original title: Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Québec title: The Exodus: Gods and Kings
• Director: Ridley Scott
• Scenario: Bill Collage , Adam Cooper and Steven Zaillian
• Sets: Arthur Max
• Costumes: Janty Yates
• Photography: Dariusz Wolski
• Music: Alberto Iglesias (additional music by Harry Gregson-Williams )
• Production: Peter Chernin , Dylan Clark , Ridley Scott , Jenno Topping , Michael Schaefer (executive producer)
• Production Companies: Scott Free Productions and Babieka
• Distribution Company: 20th Century Fox
• Country of origin: United States and United Kingdom
• Budget: 140,000,000 $ ²
• Format: color
• Genre: peplum
• Duration: 150 minutes
• Release dates ³ :
•  Argentina : December 3 , 2014
  •  United States , Canada :  December 12 , 2014
  •  France : December 24 , 2014⁴

Distribution

Source and caption : French version (VF) on AlloDoublage ⁵ and RS Dubbing ⁶ ; and Quebec Version (VQ) on Doublage Québec ⁷

Production

Hearing

The March 15 , 2013, the website Deadline.com reports that director Ridley Scott wants British actor Christian Bale to play the main role of the film, Moses ⁸ , which is confirmed on August 13 ⁹ . The same day, Australian actor Joel Edgerton is announced to play the role of Ramses, while production begins in September 2013 ¹⁰ . On August 27, the American Aaron Paul joined the cast to perform Joshua ¹¹ . Sigourney Weaver , Ben Kingsley and John Turturro are also engaged for the movie ¹².

Shooting

Filming began in September 2013 at the Pinewood Studios in London ¹³ . In October, production is scheduled to move to Spain , the cities of Pechina and the studios of Almería ¹⁴ .

Promotion

With a more “radical” vision of the Prophet, during a meeting with the press in Los Angeles in September 2014, Christian Bale said, “I believe this man was a schizophrenic in power, and one of the most barbarians whom I have never been able to read the story […] He was a man tormented and tumultuous, who was fighting against God and his call ¹⁵ . ” Part of the public criticized the film to be anachronistic , and being composed of white actors for the lead roles and black actors for the slaves ¹⁶ .

Home

Box office

Controversy

Choice of actors

The film was controversial in the United States on social networks mainly because of the distribution of roles between whites and blacks, the first being chosen to represent Moses and the entourage of the pharaoh, the latter for the roles of slaves and robbers ¹⁹ .

Local adaptation and censorship

The film was momentarily deprogrammed from cinemas in Morocco on December 25, 2014 due to a scene depicting God (in the guise of a young child). After negotiating with Fox and deleting two sound passages referring to God’s voice, the CCM authorized its theatrical release next week ²⁰ .

The film was censored in Egypt the next day ¹⁶ and in the United Arab Emirates two days later because of the “historical and religious errors” that film ^{21 brings} .

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