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$\"\"$ <\/a>We\u2019ve seen quite a few movies based on pagan European mythology over the last few years, from Clash of the Titans<\/i> and its sequel to the Percy Jackson<\/i> movies and the Thor<\/i> superhero flicks. And of course, there are quite a few Bible movies in the works right now too, some of which, such as Darren Aronofsky\u2019s Noah<\/a><\/i>, will borrow heavily from post-biblical myths and legends. But now comes word that an even older<\/i> religious-mythological system is about to get the epic-fantasy treatment.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> says three actors have been tapped so far to star in Gods of Egypt<\/i> under the direction of Alex Proyas, whose last film Knowing<\/a><\/i> took some of its key images and ideas from the Old Testament; he also came very close to directing a big-screen version of John Milton\u2019s creation epic Paradise Lost<\/i>, starring Bradley Cooper as Lucifer, before the studio decided to pull the plug.<\/p>\n

In Gods of Egypt<\/i>, Gerard Butler will play the desert god Set<\/a>, who kills his brother Osiris as part of a larger plan that will eventually target their father, the sun god Ra<\/a>, played by Geoffrey Rush. Osiris\u2019s son Horus<\/a>, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, tries to get revenge and fails, losing an eye in the process, and then has to team up with \u201ca young human thief in love with a slave to help defeat the mad god.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evidently some tweaks have been made to the original mythology, since the father of Set and Osiris in ancient Egyptian myth was someone named Geb<\/a>, not the better-known Ra. The basic premise of the movie, with its rival brothers and its plot involving their father, also vaguely reminds me of the Zeus-Hades-Kronos triangle in Wrath of the Titans<\/i>, though it sounds quite different in some ways, too.<\/p>\n

I would be curious to know if any modern-day pagans have any thoughts on this film. Two years ago, Eric Scott, a modern-day worshiper of the Norse god Thor, wrote a couple of posts about the Marvel Studios movie Thor<\/i> for the website Killing the Buddha \u2014 one before<\/a> the movie came out and one after<\/a> \u2014 in which he explored what it was like to see his chosen mythology turned into movie-based toys etc.<\/p>\n

Perhaps there are some modern-day devotees of Ra or Horus who would have similar thoughts about this film, and what it has done to the original Egyptian myth<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"