It’s hard to like Ridley Scott these days. In the past he’s presented us with films like Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, arguably some of the best films of all time, yet in recent years has produced tripe such as Prometheus and The Counsellor. He’s always been a tad overrated and now it seems he’s showing everyone why. Can Exodus: Gods and Kings change that? Probably not. People already have their doubts, whether it be their opposition to casting white Americans (As talented as they may be), or just a distaste for religious epics in general. We won’t know until December 26th, but until then, we have a new featurette to check out.
Ridley Scott starts off by saying “First of all, it’s epic in scale. And second of all, The Moses story was a massive challenge, which I love (I bet getting people to like The Counsellor was a massive challenge, eh?) and wanted to explore the complexity of his character”. Scott then talks about the relationship between Moses and his brother “The idea that they were brothers, and then rivals, and then later at war with each other, very interesting” then talks of the film’s struggles “The process of creating this film was very difficult”.
Production designer Arthur Max joins in saying “It’s an immense production. Everything is as big as we can go, but at the same time, Ridley has bigger ideas in mind (He needs them)”. Ridley comes back and talks of his inspiration, saying “What attracted me to the material was what I felt was the beauty of massive scale. Working with 700 crew, plus 4000 extras and of course the army will be expanded exponentially. 4000 retiled and grown into 20,000”.
So the big guns are being called out, but will it help the film at all? Only time will tell, but for now, people seem to be one the fence.
Exodus: Gods and Kings is out December 26th.
Ridley Scott starts off by saying “First of all, it’s epic in scale. And second of all, The Moses story was a massive challenge, which I love (I bet getting people to like The Counsellor was a massive challenge, eh?) and wanted to explore the complexity of his character”. Scott then talks about the relationship between Moses and his brother “The idea that they were brothers, and then rivals, and then later at war with each other, very interesting” then talks of the film’s struggles “The process of creating this film was very difficult”.
Production designer Arthur Max joins in saying “It’s an immense production. Everything is as big as we can go, but at the same time, Ridley has bigger ideas in mind (He needs them)”. Ridley comes back and talks of his inspiration, saying “What attracted me to the material was what I felt was the beauty of massive scale. Working with 700 crew, plus 4000 extras and of course the army will be expanded exponentially. 4000 retiled and grown into 20,000”.
So the big guns are being called out, but will it help the film at all? Only time will tell, but for now, people seem to be one the fence.
Exodus: Gods and Kings is out December 26th.
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