It is a good old-fashioned thematic score and you can leave the theatre humming it after a single screening.
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“He has composed the best score for me to date for this movie. “I put him on the spot this time and said I wanted Lawrence of Arabia,” he says. The score is being composed by American Marco Beltrami, who collaborated with the director on Knowing and I, Robot. One fight scene takes place on an open elevator as it rides to the 1,000 th floor inside Set's head. The character Anubis is an 11-foot tall jackal-headed beast who spirals up out of the sand when you least expect him. “Kind of the way I feel at the premiere of one of my movies,” he quipped.Īlex Proyas (Photo by Joosep Martinson/Getty Images) Often showing self-deprecating humor, he posted concept art depicting souls of the dead as they travel through one of the nine gates in the Land of the Dead on their journey to the Hall of Two Truths, where they will be judged. Without revealing any spoilers, he says the Sphinx in his film is a lumbering beast of stone and sand which is ever shifting and reforming, enabling the creature to speak and to kill those who get the answer to its riddle wrong. But one thing is for sure - it is not set in Ancient Egypt at all.” It is about as reality-based as Star Wars - which is not real at all ….Maybe one day if I get to make further chapters I will reveal the context of the when and where of the story.
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It is inspired by Egyptian mythology, but it makes no attempt at historical accuracy because that would be pointless - none of the events in the movie ever really happened. Proyas explains, “As I have already mentioned the world of Gods of Egypt never really existed.
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The cast includes Chadwick Boseman as Thoth, Geoffrey Rush as Ra, Rufus Sewell as Urshu, Elodie Young as Hathor and Gordon Kleut as Anibus.
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He enlists the help of the powerful god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in an unlikely alliance against Set (Gerard Butler), the god of darkness. The screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless follows mortal hero Bek (Brenton Thwaites) as he sets out to save the world and rescue his true love. Proyas makes only a passing reference to the controversy over the alleged whitewashing of the characters, which prompted apologies from the director and Lionsgate, both acknowledging the casting should have been more diverse. Using his Facebook page as a virtual blog, the filmmaker expresses his disdain for contemporary superhero movies, describes Gods of Egypt as a love story on many levels, and signals his ambition to turn Frank Herbert’s seminal 1964 sci-fi novel Dune into a trilogy. But the results are pretty spectacular if I might say so. "We used an assorted number of techniques, some quite simple and 'traditional,' namely forced perspective, often shooting with two cameras side by side, other techniques involved the dreaded motion control, which I hate using as it is kind of like watching paint dry.