Check out the first trailer and some posters for Ridley Scott's Biblical Epic, Exodus: Gods and Kings, starring Christian Bale as Moses.
And the Biblical Epics keep on running. If you ever wanted to hear Christian Bale gruff, “Let my people go!” here is your chance. With Ridley Scott returning to his genre of choice, big, old epics, Hollywood is revisiting the Moses story with Bale as the leader of the Hebrews, Joel Edgerton as Ramses, Pharaoh of Egypt, and Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver in supporting roles. Check out the parting of the Red Sea under Scott’s direction and with CGI visuals. Between Crowe as Noah and Bale as Moses, the Bible has never seemed so ready for a lil’ fisticuffs.
Following the tradition of Noah (or Scott’s own Robin Hood), Exodus: Gods and Kings looks to take a well-known story and give it the spin of a modern lens. We know that Moses really fought for his people, but now he is fighting headlong into battle. Plus, is it that surprising for Christian Bale to be playing the orphaned son of wealth who decides to not give up on his hometown people?
Watch the first trailer here:
In the first three posters for Exodus: Gods and Kings, visible below and released via Yahoo, we see the much more modern, yet Hollywood retro, look of Bale and Edgerton as Moses and Ramses.
It makes all the more sense once you contextualize what Biblical Epics used to mean to Hollywood, and what they can mean now.
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