Hollywood acclaimed film authority Ridley Scott brings the story of Moses back to life in Exodus: Gods and Kings. The movie's first official trailer has been launched this week which started to ignite debates online tackling the film's treatment of the Biblical source materials, the races of the casts in the film and the like.
Exodus: Gods And Kings ran on a very tight production schedule of 74 days which wasn't just filmed in controlled sound stage environment but part of the shooting was shot in actual locations such as Spain.
When Scott was interviewed by Empire if Exodus is in fact his biggest film, he answered, 'Well, in terms of metaphorical aspects, yes, this is the biggest project I've ever done. Even budgetarily, it's the probably the biggest, yeah. I never do that. I always approach it from the point of view of the characters, of the story. I never realized Gladiator was going to be quite as large in terms of its scope and yet it was very small, personal story. A revenge. A simple revenge into which we had jigsawed some characters.'
The story of Exodus as written for script by Oscar Award winning script writer Steve Zaillian (who also worked with Scott on Hannibal and American Gangster) is in a lot of ways, same as Gladiator, is narrowed down to a simple brother to brother story of Moses (Christian Bale) against his adopted sibling Rhamses (Joel Edgerton), although, the film also has broader set of narrative dwelling on warfare, plagues, and literal acts of God such as what is shown on its recent trailer released this week, the mesmerizing parting of the Red Sea sequence. Scott makes a promise that there are more to watch for the amazement the movie goers.
'I've held back a bit-wait 'til you see the movie. You must never oversell yourself. You've got to wait til you're three weeks out, then you go for it. This is a big movie. 1300 effects shots is a lot. Not compared to something like Star Wars, sure, but we're not 'effecty' in that sense of the word. One of the things that has come off really well is the reality of the characters. You wouldn't call it an effects film even though in many ways a lot of what was needed is extraordinary. There were things I couldn't build. But in today's world, the effects are so good that it looks real, effectively.'
The other casts of Exodus: Gods and Kings are the likes of Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Sigourney Weaver, John Tuturro, Ben Kingsley, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) and Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines.
Exodus: Gods And Kings ran on a very tight production schedule of 74 days which wasn't just filmed in controlled sound stage environment but part of the shooting was shot in actual locations such as Spain.
When Scott was interviewed by Empire if Exodus is in fact his biggest film, he answered, 'Well, in terms of metaphorical aspects, yes, this is the biggest project I've ever done. Even budgetarily, it's the probably the biggest, yeah. I never do that. I always approach it from the point of view of the characters, of the story. I never realized Gladiator was going to be quite as large in terms of its scope and yet it was very small, personal story. A revenge. A simple revenge into which we had jigsawed some characters.'
The story of Exodus as written for script by Oscar Award winning script writer Steve Zaillian (who also worked with Scott on Hannibal and American Gangster) is in a lot of ways, same as Gladiator, is narrowed down to a simple brother to brother story of Moses (Christian Bale) against his adopted sibling Rhamses (Joel Edgerton), although, the film also has broader set of narrative dwelling on warfare, plagues, and literal acts of God such as what is shown on its recent trailer released this week, the mesmerizing parting of the Red Sea sequence. Scott makes a promise that there are more to watch for the amazement the movie goers.
'I've held back a bit-wait 'til you see the movie. You must never oversell yourself. You've got to wait til you're three weeks out, then you go for it. This is a big movie. 1300 effects shots is a lot. Not compared to something like Star Wars, sure, but we're not 'effecty' in that sense of the word. One of the things that has come off really well is the reality of the characters. You wouldn't call it an effects film even though in many ways a lot of what was needed is extraordinary. There were things I couldn't build. But in today's world, the effects are so good that it looks real, effectively.'
The other casts of Exodus: Gods and Kings are the likes of Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Sigourney Weaver, John Tuturro, Ben Kingsley, Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) and Ben Mendelsohn (The Place Beyond the Pines.
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