Comments on: Ridley Scott Talks Controversial Casting Of ‘Exodus: Gods And Kings’ Plus 10 New Pics From The Biblical Epic

By: Arthur Amyfield

Arthur Amyfield — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Not only the casting is screwed up and inaccurate, but the movie looks corny.This is a 100 million dollar mess and lies. Hollywood really distorted history this time, as usual, I mean are there already hundreds of silly corny white Egypt movies already, why we need another one. I won't pay my money for this garbage.

By: Bigzilla

Bigzilla — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Basically, he's telling us, "Well, I was allowed to cast all the SECONDARY characters as non-white, so I did."

By: Miscanthus

Miscanthus — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

PC certainly can be taken too far, but I can't help but wish there would have been at least SOME improvement in the situation since Paul Newman was cast in Exodus in the sixties. Why does the Jewish lead always have to have blue eyes?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

If you walk into a Hollywood film expecting historical accuracy, you only have yourself to blame.

By: TokyoRift

TokyoRift — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Although it would be nice if filmmakers shot for Historical accuracy I am not complaining. It's just a blessing to have the Biblical Epic genre back in business all the from Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Aronofsky's Noah, History Channel's The Bible to Ridley Scott's Exodus: Gods and Kings. I'm looking forward to this movie and I hope it performs well at the box office despite the controversy surrounding the cast.

By: antbwan

antbwan — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

For of all, the story in the bible doesn't make any sense. Moses and some characters were based on African Egyptian kings that were black. Moses was based on Thutmoses III and Ramsese II was dead long before that time anyway. Archeological findings and study show it was only Africans living in Kush (Egypt) at the time, Semites (Jews) invaded around 1500bc

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

The popular rule in Hollywood is, whenever possible, cast the better actor, you'll get better mileage. That being said, there are several excellent NON Caucasian actors out there that could have been cast. But again, this is Ridley Scott. He can cast Carrot Top as Moses and Hollywood would be ok with it.

By: rodie

rodie — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Hollywood isn't a charity. It's not going to cast a bunch of modern day Egyptians to play some ancient Egyptians just to make a certain group of people happy. They are going to cast movie stars who are representing characters with other attributes different from their own. That's one of the fundamentals of acting.

By: Black Paladin 500

Black Paladin 500 — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

As a Black person I am particularly sensitive to the concern of racial sensitivity and accuracy in casting a historical picture. However, as Christ said, far better to light a candle than curse the darkness. I am for having more racially representative casting in the picture industry, however let us not promote another form of racism and say you have to be a certain color to help tell a religious story. Religion, in this case, Judeo-Christianity, belongs to all cultures. Are we to say only Ethiopian Jews can play Moses, Jesus Christ and all the Prophets of this largest Faith in the world. Invite all cultures to portray our spiritual teachers. Would God expect any less of us. Lets see what these great actors can bring to this story. Block no one out. And lets the African,s Asians, Europeans, Native Americans, all the people of the world offer their contributions to a religious history that has no racial limits.

By: Lou

Lou — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

I shall stick to Heston&Brynner. Terrible, terrible costumes. Moses' armour looks like something Attila could have worn. You would expect Scott to do better than this.

By: toots

toots — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Ridley Scott, Biblical epic? Someone wake me up when it's all over.

By: Mona

Mona — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Same old Hollywood whitewashing that's been going on forever. Latent, under the radar racism embedded so deeply in the culture (and us) that we just take it for granted. Same reason black people serve more prison time than white people convicted of the same crime. I'm not saying Scott is a racist, I don't know him. The studio undoubtedly preferred white people. They automatically assumed white actors would make more money for them. I'm sure they never seriously considered hiring anybody else. Most of the actors of color are in slave roles, which demonstrates how hard it is to move forward in our thinking.

By: Missy's

Missy's — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

This is crap, there was people of color not white people in Egypt, which is not the actual name, they (Hollywood) need to tell the truth and stop whitewashing history, everyone knows, in this day and age that white people where not in Egypt, and to continue to depict this lie is very sad!

By: 42tribes

42tribes — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Ridley Scott is full of it with a sh before it

Any fool with an internet connection can see what Ramses ii and all the Pharoahs looked like and their DNA. Ridley Scott deserves far more heat than Donald Sterling.

By: Mookie

Mookie — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

I respect Scott, and I genuinely hope that this is a good movie. But Christian Bale's GQ ready hair cut is soooo distracting!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

I am indifferent to what people are calling white washing or the cast. This is a moot point to me. I am more interested if this movie can stay true to the story as told in the book of Exodus vs the farce seen in the movie, Noah. I will judging this movie based on the book of Exodus and the Cecil DeMille's masterpiece 10 Commandments.

By: ridleygram

ridleygram — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

One fair minded citizen wrote on here
People don't want historical accuracy, they want actors other than white people to get an equal chance for roles. And yes, we do have Hollywood to blame.
Defines racism rather well.

Already tired of all the racist comments regarding a film nobody has even seen yet. Constant moaning about the 'white cast'. Check out the whole cast and crew list and apologise when you see the ethnicity.
Pissed off with internet trolls and shoddy journalism on endless sites who 'know better'. Its a film the story is more important than the colour of your skin.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Every bible story ever has been whitewashed. Give them a break. Hollywood in general needs to be held accountable, directly preceded by American culture.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Its a film the story is more important than the colour of your skin. hahahahhahahahahha.
wake up mate

By: BOB again

BOB again — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

"Its a film the story is more important than the colour of your skin". hahahahhahahahahha.
wake up mate.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Ridley royally f@#$%^ up,
why?
Because even a classic Hollywood f$%^ up like Mel Gibson (who is on record for having racially slandered someone) could cast just the right actors for his Mayan epic Apocalypto. Ridley had no excuse for bringing Bale and Edgerton onboard, except the old chestnut, box-office draw.
Hell. maybe the negative press is still good press.

By: Amr

Amr — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

It is true Egyptians weren't white but they were nevrr black either
Not accepting Hollywood's whitewashing doesnt mean that we can accept blsck afrocentrics robbing Egyptians history
Egypt has always been middle eastern
Blacks (nubians) were the traditional enemies of Egypt
Since that exodus problem has erupted and I 've been seeing photoshoped images of darkened skin statues of ancient Pharaohs surfing around the internet claiming that ancient Egypt was black
Such cheap attitude by blacks robbing other ppl's history to make it up for the lack of their own

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Egyptians were meant to be "black" mixed with Heritage and even Somalian heritage. I think personally this is disgusting not on the actors part but the casting and also directors input towards this film. Some of you will probably have ignorant views but the truth is they are just stripping a biblical story away from truth in order to meet the increased sales figures for the white demographic. I love to watch this film however I believe making this film was a bit political. Ridley Scott extremely let down. Christian bales character was ok in film but would like to see black actors Arab actors and white actors working in a collaborate manner.

By: Toni stras

Toni stras — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

Hello Everyone first I am from Italy second Egyptians are white I am Historiographer. Any countries close to the mid it run sea are white like Italy and Spain, Etc.
Second Egyptian they had one of the most strongest Empire And they had slaves from all over Africa and Europe. So I hope everyone understand that. And beside I hope u people read instead of writing something u don't know about because seriously most of the comments are dum.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 23 May 2016 05:43:44 +0000

I hope the film fails. I won't go anywhere near it. Holywood will never change until the lose enough MONEY.