Phoenix
Gerard Butler Fan in Training
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Post by Phoenix on Nov 13, 2015 1:12:51 GMT -5
great poster
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Post by fifiserafino on Nov 17, 2015 16:32:15 GMT -5
Thanks SD Sounds like Gerry might be using his own accent
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Post by TeePat on Nov 17, 2015 21:49:30 GMT -5
Sounds like to me too! I love listening to that growly voice!
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Post by scottishdreamer on Nov 18, 2015 0:00:46 GMT -5
I love Gerry in this role just from the trailer. His growly voice and bulging muscles! Great hair/beard. I will be drooling all over the theater floor!
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Post by fifiserafino on Dec 29, 2015 21:29:08 GMT -5
The director's take on the posters from previous page
"THOSE CHARACTER POSTERS... ...were an embarrassment. They managed to make the colors of the movie look unbelievably gaudy and tacky. Trust me, the movie will look nothing like that. So please ignore until the new posters come out -- any day now. New ones look a lot better and are a much better indication of what to expect, as is all the art I have been posting here. If you don't know what I am talking about re "character posters" that's good -- I hope you never do. They looked like GODS OF EGYPT the Vegas review. They managed to make Nikolaj look like he was wearing a flouro blue sequin coat. No idea how they did that?"
And this helps us to better understand his vision:
"a)FANTASY? b)MYTHOLOGY? c) HISTORY? Some people seem confused over which of these descriptions to apply to my movie. Seems pretty obvious to me. It is clearly option "a". As I have already mentioned the world of GODS OF EGYPT never really existed. It is inspired by Egyptian mythology, but it makes no attempt at "historical accuracy" because that would be pointless -- none of the events in the movie ever really happened. It is about as reality-based as STAR WARS -- which is not real at all. If those movies were in a "galaxy far far away" maybe GOE is set in an Egypt "far far in the future"? or "far far away in a parallel universe" -- neither of these are quite correct -- maybe one day if I get to make further chapters I will reveal the context of the when and where of the story. But one thing is for sure -- it is not set in Ancient Egypt at all."
" I was born in Egypt to Greek-Egyptian parents. Though culturally my parents retained much that was Greek, and strong connections to Greece, they like me had been born in Egypt and so too had their parents and grandparents and so on and so forth. My dad always boasted we went back to Alexander the Great. Not certain that is the case but my family had been in Egypt longer than anyone could remember, certainly for many hundreds of years. So I am definitely as Egyptian as I am Greek or Australian. My parents spoke fluent Arabic, and my granddad in particular told me stories of Egyptian myth. We moved to Australia when I was three, and that's where I have lived ever since. I made GODS OF EGYPT inspired by the stories my granddad would tell me."
From his Facebook page
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Post by craven on Dec 31, 2015 22:48:15 GMT -5
There is a documentary on NetFlex and I just watched the 1st segment. It is the Pyramid Codes or visa versa but it was so nice they talked about the Gods and referred to Set
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Post by christy on Jan 7, 2016 16:17:36 GMT -5
www.ebay.com/itm/-/262229043657? GODS OF EGYPT Premiere & After-Party IMPORTANT NOTICE: SELECT BUY NOW & PAY TODAY (THURSDAY), and we will offer you the next Gerard Butler item we get first BEFORE WE LET ANYONE ELSE KNOW ABOUT IT! You'll have right of first refusal. We have received tickets to 5 of his previous premieres and we have also auctioned off a SET VISIT to one of his movies with a Meet & Greet in his trailer. We are working on getting another one of these. Have Questions about the Auction or Us? Read our FAQ at: www.theBroadcaster.com/faq.html . Also read our Winning Bidder Comments at: www.theBroadcaster.com/raves.htmlWe're a non-profit charity who has been offering guest list seats to our members since the second season of American Idol. Take a look at some of the pictures taken from our past winner of the tickets. The survival of mankind hangs in the balance when Set (Gerard Butler), the merciless god of darkness, usurps Egypt's throne and plunges the prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. Hoping to save the world and rescue his true love, a defiant mortal named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) forms an unlikely alliance with the powerful god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Their battle against Set and his henchmen takes them into the afterlife and across the heavens for an epic confrontation. This package contains: Two (2) tickets to Premiere and After-Party of Gods of Egypt February 23, 2016 (tentative date) Los Angeles, CA Tax-deduction for every dollar over $1000 bid
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 13, 2016 16:36:20 GMT -5
TV spot
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2016 20:09:57 GMT -5
This is going to be a real good movie. Would not miss it. I cover my eyes and ears when anything is printed or said about the casting in this movie. What a bunch of nonsense, imho. Everyone that I have mentioned it to has voiced the same opinion.
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 14, 2016 3:01:02 GMT -5
FINAL POSTER Hope you all like it. (Alex Proyas)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2016 9:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by fifiserafino on Jan 30, 2016 22:13:37 GMT -5
Director Alex Proyas continues to give insight into the movie on his FB page:
GODS OF EGYPT Is my ode to old fashioned movies. The kinds of movies my dad would take us to at the drive-in. Mostly double-features which would start before the sun had set, so sometimes you could barely tell what was on the screen. All part of the magical childhood experience of movies. They were usually adventures in exotic lands. As a kid I loved that stuff… Everyone already knows about my passion for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Then there was GUNS OF NAVARONE on TV. Any Sergio Leone western. Huston’s THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING… now there’s a damn movie! Actually still one of my favourites. I think not long after, Speilberg tried to recapture that spirit with RAIDERS… and all those influences have gone into GOE. Someone who saw the movie said it reminded them what it was like being ten years old again. A great compliment indeed! Yes the movie is old fashioned. Proudly so. Dedicated to my dad. You know, here’s the deal — it is meant to be fun...
And on working with Gerry:
INTRODUCING SUPER SET Set in battle beast mode. Scarier than Gerard Butler in "human" mode - now that's scary! Seriously Gerry makes a great bad guy in this movie.
Kennet Karlsson I think i saw this in one of my "after too much Vodka" dreams. It spoke to me. Alex Proyas (during editing) Some mornings I would see Gerry's face in my burnt toast. Alex Proyas He's a great guy - I am only joking!!!
Alex Proyas While we were filming Gerry would actually introduce himself to new people as "Hello, I'm Gerard Butler... I play Set, who kills everyone he loves." Perfect. Dressed in full armour it made quite the impression. James Mccallum The closest I came to meeting Gerry on set, Alex, was when I opened the door from the previz room and felt it bang into something. 'That's weird', I thought, as there was nothing on the other side of that door. So I opened it again, and there was Gerry, removing his bike helmet. I'd bashed the door into his head. He wasn't impressed.
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A FEW POINTS REGARDING CASTING GODS OF EGYPT 1 My movie is not intended to be “history”. It is inspired by myth, a fantasy film - a work of the imagination. Therefore under the rules of creative license and artistic freedom of expression, I cast the actors I considered right for the roles. It is also of course everyone’s right to disagree with me. That’s art. 2. It is common for actors to play a character of a different nationality to their own. Sean Connery a Scot played a Russian. Omar Sharif an Egyptian also played a Russian. Meryl Streep played an Australian. Anthony Quinn a Mexican played almost anybody “ethnic”! And every Australian actor puts on an American accent now and then and pretends to be a yank. There was an outcry when Chinese actors played Japanese characters in a fairly recent film but generally this isn’t a focus of concern. But of course there is a justified concern (as there should be) if casting against race is an example of “white-washing” i.e. casting a white actor to represent a person of colour for the specific reason to appeal to a perceived predominantly white audience — though ironically I doubt there really is such an audience any more in most parts of the world. 3. There is much debate as to the the skin colour of Ancient Egyptians, though no one knows the facts with any certainty. Of course it is unlikely they were entirely caucasian, though their art shows a mixture of skin colour during most dynasties. Is this recording of actuality, or symbolic or artistic representation therefore not meant literally? Perhaps modern Egypt’s mix of peoples is an indication of the ancients' racial mix? Or perhaps not. I will not attempt to make any such argument either way - I just do not believe we know all the answers, and therefore any generalised statements will probably be erroneous. 4. As a modern day Egyptian (of Greek ancestry which goes back to the time of Alexander the Great) I was born into a colour blind culture - and Egypt, like the countries immediately surrounding it, has been for at least the last two thousand years, a mixing pot of peoples - Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and African, a true cross-roads of civilisation, culturally and racially. Was this the case during the time of the pyramids? Perhaps not, but we do not know for certain. And of course Ancient Egypt spanned thousands of years — and was ruled by many different peoples. 5. I cast the best actors for the roles. I stand by these decisions. The casting is an attempt to include ALL people - partly suggestive of the Egypt I know based on my own cultural heritage, but clearly and most importantly a work of the “imagination” — to exclude any one race in service of a hypothetical theory of historical accuracy, particularly in a film that is not attempting to be “history”, rather a fantasy film, would have been biased. 6. Of course in a perfect world there would be a greater pool of english speaking Egyptian actors to draw upon for this movie, but the practicalities of production, the “names” which are required by studios to finance a movie of this scale, the fact the movie was entirely made in Australia with specific guidelines about how many “imported” actors we could include (due to financing Australian content “quota” requirements), all these aspects had a part to play in the casting of the movie. 7. Finally, I do believe this movie is not the best one to soap-box issues of diversity with. Yes, in the wider argument, I do believe we need more people of colour and a greater cultural diversity in movies — after all Hollywood has spent a century or more making 95% of it’s content based in American culture, it is time for a change. And, as one example, I do agree that often great performances by black actors in Hollywood movies are over-looked by the Academy. But in the instance of this movie, and based on my own cultural heritage, I attempted to show racial diversity, black, white, asian, as far as I was allowed, as far as I could, given the limitations I was given. It is obviously clear that for things to change, for casting in movies to become more diverse many forces must align. Not just the creative. To those who are offended by the decisions which were made I have already apologised. I respect their opinion, but I hope the context of the decisions is a little clearer based on my statements here. Thanks for reading. - Alex Proyas
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Post by fifiserafino on Feb 3, 2016 4:37:09 GMT -5
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Post by christy on Feb 17, 2016 21:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by craven on Feb 18, 2016 17:31:50 GMT -5
Can't wait to see this movie
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