Gods of Egypt (2016): 12 Fantastic Facts About The Movie!!

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.

Movie Scene
Movie Scene

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.

Gerard Butler as God Set
Gerard Butler as God Set

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).

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as God Horus
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as God Horus

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).

Gods of Egypt 2016 movie
Gods of Egypt 2016 movie

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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.

Movie Scene
Movie Scene

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.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as God Horus
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as God Horus

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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.

Movie Scene
Movie Scene

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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Movie Scene

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How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014): 12 Dazzling Facts About The Animated Movie!!

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is directed and written by Dean DeBlois. The movie stars Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and T. J. Miller.  This movie is produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. 

Movie Details Facts
Movie Details Facts

The movie is set after the events of How To Train Your Dragon (2010). In this movie Dragon Toothless and Hiccup find an ice cave, where hundreds of new species of dragons reside. Dragon Toothless and Hiccup have to fight a new super villain to keep peace in the valley.

Ice Cave and Dragon species
Ice Cave and Dragon species

How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is as fantastic as it’s predecessor How To Train Your Dragon (2010). The movie was released on 13 June, 2014 and earned more than $600 million. Today, I have a list of dazzling facts and details about animated movie How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014).

Let’s have a look.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie poster
How to Train Your Dragon 2 movie poster

12. Dean DeBlois  asked actress Cate Blanchett  to play the role of Valka in How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) movie during the 2011 awards season where How to Train Your Dragon (2010) was being campaigned for Academy Award recognition. DeBlois wanted Blanchett to play Valka because he knew she could strike the right balance of “rich and commanding,” mixed with a sense of “regret and vulnerability” that the part called for.

Cate Blanchett as Valka
Cate Blanchett as Valka

11. Character Hiccup is left-handed.

Hiccup
Hiccup

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10. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) is the first Dreamworks Animation film to win a Golden Globe award for Best Animated Film.

DreamWorks Animation logo
DreamWorks Animation logo

9. Chris Sanders, co-writer and co-director of How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and Dean DeBlois’ collaborator since Lilo & Stitch (2002), did not write and direct the sequel, due to his involvement with The Croods (2013).

Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (The Croods)
Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (The Croods)

8. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) reached a peak of 2nd position in the US box office and held it for one week only on the weekend of June 13-15 2014 with takings on that weekend of $49,451,322.

Toothless and Hiccup
Toothless and Hiccup

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7. Character Stoick the Vast has some experience and lines in common with another actor Gerard Butler character, Creedy in Reign of Fire (2002) which was also about dragons.

Stoick the Vast
Stoick the Vast

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How to Train Your Dragon (2010): 14 Prodigal Things You Should Know About This Animated Movie!!

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is an animated ction/adventure movie produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. The movie characters are voiced by Jay Baruchel (Hiccup), Gerard Butler (Stoick), Jonah Hill (Snotlout), T.J. Miller (Tuffnut) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fish-legs).

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How to Train Your Dragon (2010) takes place in a mythical Viking world. A young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe’s tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance at at last gaining the tribe’s acceptance, he finds that he no longer wants to kill it and instead befriends it. Soon he learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

How to Train Your Dragon 2010
How to Train Your Dragon 2010

How to Train Your Dragon (2010) was nominated for 2 Academy Awards (Oscars).  The movie won several other awards. It was released on 26th March in USA. Today I have an interesting list of fact and details about the movie How to Train Your Dragon (2010). Let’s have a look.

How to Train Your Dragon 2010
How to Train Your Dragon 2010

14. In the book of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, character Hiccup doesn’t have a love interest. Furthermore, Toothless the dragon in the book is about the size of the Terrible Terror breed, and he is also green and red, not black. Toothless also got his name because when Hiccup first found him he had no teeth. He grew one tooth, only to lose it shortly later.

Hiccup and Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon

Hiccup and Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon

13. The sounds of Dragon Toothless (the Night Fury) are a combination of various sounds, including the voice of Supervising Sound Designer Randy Thom, elephant seals, elephants, horses, tigers, and even domestic cats.

Hiccup and Dragon toothless

Hiccup and Dragon toothless

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12. The Night Fury dragon species was originally going to be be more wolf like in appearance. Instead, a Dreamworks employee’s computer screen saver of a black leopard inspired the film’s creators to make Toothless more feline in appearance.

How to Train Your Dragon 2010 movie

How to Train Your Dragon 2010 movie

11. The appearance and personality of Dragon Toothless was inspired by cats, dogs, and horses. The face also bears some resemblance to the giant salamander, largest amphibian in the world.

Night fury Dragon Toothless

Night fury Dragon Toothless

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10. The character Stoick in How to Train Your Dragon (2010) is 7’2″ tall.

Stoick in How to Train Your Dragon 2010

Stoick in How to Train Your Dragon 2010

9. The hesitation dragon Toothless shows during the famous ‘touch’ scene was actually an animation error. However, it looked so perfect that the animators chose to leave it in the film.

How to Train Your Dragon 2010

How to Train Your Dragon 2010

8. Character Hiccup is left-handed (as demonstrated when he is writing in his journal/sketchbook).

Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon 2010

Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon 2010

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