Gods of Egypt (2016) is an adventure/fantasy film directed by Alex Proyas and written by Matt Salamanca and Burk Sharpless. The film stars Gerard Butler, Rufus Sewell, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites and Geoffrey Rush in lead roles.
Gods of Egypt (2016) tells the mythical story of a thief and mortal hero ‘Bek’ who partners with the God ‘Horus’ to defeat the God of Darkness ‘Set’. God ‘Set’ has taken over of the Egypt and casted away God Horus.
A much awaited adventure/fantasy movie from Gerard Butler after 300 (2006). Well, let’s look at the interesting facts and details about the movie Gods of Egypt (2016).
12. Similarities between Gods of Egypt and Fury Road!
Gods of Egypt (2016) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) has almost same cast and crew members counting upto 200. As for examples.. Both films have same same first assistant director (P. J. Voeten), visual effects supervisor (Julian Dimsey), Stunt men (Tim Wong and others), and lastly actors (Courtney Eaton, Abby Lee, Bruce Spencer and others).
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11. Shot with Panavision!
Gods of Egypt (2016) marks the first film to be shot with Panavision’s new Primo 70 series of lenses.
10. Game of Thrones connection!
The movie features popular British tv show Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. He plays the titular role of Ser Jaime Lannister in the show. For his role as God Horus in Gods of Egypt (2016) he got down to 7% of total body fat.
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9. Sahara is too dangerous to shoot!
Most of the filming occurred in Australian desert instead of Sahara desert as shown in film. The Sahara desert is considered to be too dangerous to shoot a film.
8. No Egyptian actor in Gods of Egypt. .Lol!
The film faced heavy criticism due to its casting. The film has mostly Caucasian actors and no Egyptian actor in lead. It was not long since the direction and production companies issued apologies separately.
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