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$\"\"$ <\/a>Ridley Scott started shooting his Moses movie Exodus: Gods and Kings<\/i> nine months ago<\/a>, and there was so much buzz about the film earlier this year \u2014 from the first official<\/a> pictures<\/a> released around New Year\u2019s Day to the coverage it got in the foreign press<\/a> in March \u2014 that I\u2019d kind of assumed that he had finished shooting it by now, and that all he had to worry about, between now and the film\u2019s release in December, was the editing, the visual effects (the 3D parting of the Red Sea, etc.), the music and so on.<\/p>\n

But apparently the cameras are still rolling. An article<\/a> posted yesterday at Albawabh News, an Egyptian website, claims that Scott will finish shooting some scenes in and around the temples of Aswan \u201cnext Sunday\u201d \u2014 at least as translated by Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This wouldn\u2019t necessarily have to be principal photography; this could be re-shoots, or second-unit footage, or something of that sort. (The bulk of the film\u2019s exteriors, including the picture above, were shot in Spain months ago.) It\u2019s possible that Scott might not even be there in person. Either way, the basic point remains: they\u2019re still filming this movie \u2014 though presumably they\u2019re almost done now<\/i>.<\/p>\n

The fact that part of Exodus<\/i> is being shot<\/i> in Egypt does not guarantee that the film will be released<\/i> there when all is said and done. Moses is considered a prophet within Islam, and many Muslims believe the prophets should never be depicted visually \u2014 thus the efforts of Egyptian activists, some more successful than others, to get films like Youssef Chahine\u2019s The Emigrant<\/a><\/i> and Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Noah<\/a><\/i> banned.<\/p>\n

There is even a precedent for a film about Moses getting permission to shoot in Egypt, only to be banned from the country once the movie was finished.<\/p>\n

Cecil B. DeMille filmed part of The Ten Commandments<\/a><\/i> there in 1954, and reportedly got permission to do so because then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser was a big fan of DeMille\u2019s earlier film The Crusades<\/a><\/i> and its positive portrayal of Saladin.<\/p>\n

However, when The Ten Commandments<\/i> was finished a couple years later (just a few months after the Suez Crisis took place), Nasser ended up banning the film<\/a> from Egyptian theatres because he felt it favoured \u201cthe Jews over the Egyptians.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it happens, Ridley Scott has made his own movie about the Crusades, i.e. Kingdom of Heaven<\/a><\/i>, and the actor who played Saladin in his<\/i> film is playing an advisor to the Pharaohs<\/a> in Exodus<\/i>. Did that help Sir Ridley get his<\/i> Egyptian permit?<\/p>\n

Sir Ridley is also planning to direct a TV show which posits that the ancient Egyptian civilization was built with the help of aliens<\/a>. One wonders whether his contacts in Egypt will allow him to shoot scenes for that<\/i> project, too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"