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$\"\"$ <\/a>Yesterday I passed along the news that Exodus<\/a><\/i>, Ridley Scott\u2019s version of the life of Moses, was \u201cgathering steam\u201d at 20th Century Fox, even as Steven Spielberg had dropped out of directing another Moses movie over at Warner Brothers. Well, now comes word, via Deadline<\/a>, that Fox and Scott are talking to Christian Bale \u2014 who landed one of his first acting gigs in Spielberg\u2019s Empire of the Sun<\/a><\/i> (1987) before growing up to star in the Dark Knight<\/a><\/i> trilogy (2005-2012) etc. \u2014 about playing Moses himself. This would not be Bale\u2019s first biblical role; he previously played Jesus in the TV-movie Mary Mother of Jesus<\/a><\/i> (1999), and he briefly<\/a> considered<\/a> taking the starring role in Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Noah<\/a><\/i> as well. Bale passed on that role in the end, and he might pass on this one too, but still, it\u2019s another sign that the studios are very keen on making another big-screen movie about Moses \u2014 the first such live-action film in almost 60 years.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"