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EXCLUSIVE: Don’t consider this etched in stone yet, but it looks like Fox is putting a rush on the Moses movie it has been developing with Ridley Scott. I’m hearing that the director and studio are courting Christian Bale to star. The project is called Exodus, which was originally scripted by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment bought the film as a pitch and they are producing with Scott and his Scott Free, which joined later. Now it has become a big priority after Steve Zaillian signed on to do a rewrite. Zaillian teamed with Scott on American Gangster. Scott is looking to mobilize this as soon as he completes The Counselor. The talks with Bale are early stage.
This comes as Warner Bros deals with Steven Spielberg dropping out of its mega-Moses project, Gods And Kings, the epic-sized film about life of Moses based on the script by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine. The studio’s Hail Mary pass is trying to secure the services of Ang Lee, fresh from his Oscar win for Life Of Pi.
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Bale is shooting the David O Russell untitled drama for Sony Pictures, starring with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Louis CK. He most recently completed the Scott Cooper-directed revenge thriller Out Of The Furnace with Zoe Saldana and Woody Harrelson, and has two Terrence Malick movies coming. He seems an inspiring choice to play Moses, given the breadth of his work in films like The Fighter. Coming off the Dark Knight trilogy with Christopher Nolan, Bale is making intriguing choices. And both Fox and Paramount have surely noticed the ratings on History Channel’s The Bible miniseries. There is certainly a global audience for a retelling of the Moses story with the technological advancements made since Charlton Heston played him in the 1956 Ten Commandments, a film that was one of the biggest blockbusters of its time. Bale’s repped by WME.
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Any details on how this at all differs with the Gods and Kings script? They are both based on the Bible….
Gods and Kings might be less about Moses and more about Pharaoh – telling the story from his perspective
REALLY hoping he brings some Batman gravel to the roll…
Henry Cavill would be better.
Drunk posting? Embarrassed for you now.
in what world would Henri Cavill be a better choice?
You are right. Henry Cavill is a medicore actor that is lucky with good looks. I am still shock he was hired as Superman.
Will Moses wear a cape and have cool gadgets, too?
Maybe he’ll keep his British accent. Even better – a full British production:
Rameses: Hugh Jackman
Nefritiri: Carey Mulligan
Dathan: Alan Rickman
Sephora: Emily Watson
Hugh Jackman is Australian.
Since when is Hugh Jackman British??????????
Both of his parents are British and he was born very soon after they arrived in Oz. His mother and other sisters live in the UK. But yes he is Australian.
I’m trying to think of one Henry Cavill performance that measures up to any of Bale’s greatest performances.
The only thing anybody ever commented on about Cavill in The Tudors was his naked ass, so I’m puzzled as to where that random name came from really.
Bale’s ass in AMERICAN PSYCHO looks better LOL
Wow. Everything Zailian writes gets produced. Prolific dude.
I hope as Moses he can part the crew to let the DP work.
The Professor
Will Christian ever work on TV ? I mean, not as regular, he definitely will hate to be tied up to a show for several seasons. I mean like guest star (maybe recurring) on some critically acclaimed show. I would die to see him in Person of Interest or Game of Thrones or House of Cards. Even The Walking Dead could be a good fit – loved Bale in post-apocalyptic Reign of Fire.
he did Jesus for a tv movie in 2000 and Treasure Island with Charleston Heston in 90′s
TV feature is still feature. TV show is another beast altogether.
Moses should be played by an African American. Let’s get real Hollywood. What Continent is Egypt in? Think about it..
You do know North Africans are not “Black” but more Middle Eastern. I think what you are talking about is Sub-Saharan Africa.
Moses’s would’ve been a middle easterner and Pharaoh would’ve been probably the same color as the modern day Ethiopians or darker. Neither would’ve white. If they are portrayed white this day in time, then whites are just still having a hard time accepting the truth of it. Even the Hebrew language is closer to Arabic, only Hebrew being older. So ancient Hebrew would’ve closely resembled Arabs
All Egyptians and other dark skinned people in those times were sun worshippers. I’d rather see Antonio Banderas play Moses and Peter Mensah play Pharaoh. It’ll be closer to the truth.
We know this day in time most Africans are Arabs, but in those times the Egyptian (people of Mitzrayim) were in fact African, just like Kush, both being the sons of Ham. A white Egypt is a white lie and nothing more and in fact there were Kushite black Pharaohs whose number of pyramids in Sudan out number the pyramids in Egypt making the pyramids an ancient Kushite monument built by the Kushite Pharaohs.
I meant that we know at this day in time the North Africans are Muslims (Arabs) in Egypt
Egypt is in Africa and Moses’s did marry a Kushite (Ethiopian) wife (numbers 12th chapter) and hopefully that part of the movie should be accurate, but Moses wasn’t black probably fair skinned or probably mixed, but he wasn’t black. His kids Gershom and Eliezer were half Ethiopian and Hebrew (Ethiopian Jews).
MM217, Moses WAS NOT fair-skinned. If he existed at all, according to the bible, he was accepted as pharoah’s son. He must’ve resembled him a little. People should stop thinking that ancient Jews looked like today’s, who are Europeans.
The problem with these whitewashed depictions is that if you present a lie as the truth long enough, eventually the truth starts to look like the lie.
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tell the truth for a change Hollywood, If you are a African American and your mother is light-skinned; she’s fair skinned, not white so just so we’re on the same page. Moses’s would’ve been the same color as an Arab, or maybe even light brown skinned; which other middle easterners are. Have you ever seen dark-skinned people from India or even dark-skinned Arabs; they exist, but they’re not from Africa. Only on the movies in Hollywood are they white and that’s the white lie.
Fox should only hire classically trained thespians from the stage to star in this piece. No Brad Pitt and No Christian Bale and No George Clooney. What about a cast of James Purefoy, Ralph Fiennes, Idris Elba, Alan Rickman & Emily Watson ( CynicalCritic good choices ) , Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana, Alfred Molina, Jason Clarke, and Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Eric Bana was not trained on the stage. Get it right.
facts, Eric Bana comes from a sketch comedy and stand-up background. I consider that a theatre background.
Well, Bale did appear in a play with Rowan Atkinson as a kid so I guess that would give him a theatre background.
Are the studios so creatively bankrupt that they’re turning back to the freaking Bible for film ideas? What, they just look up which book has sold the most copies and discover “hey, whoa, the Bible is a big best seller just like Harry Potter!”. Corporate filmmaking at its finest.
How about a Jew to play Moses? Jake Gyllenhaal? Zach Efron? Shia LaBeouf? Seth Rogin? Adam Sandler? Or maybe Daniel Radcliffe!?
Not a white Jew, but a middle eastern Jew; right.
Wow that’s just about the stupidest thing I’ve read all day…and I read a political blog frequently
I’m much rather see Cumberbatch in the role.
Scott + Zaillian + Bale = Gold
Do you mean someone of African decent? I hate to break it to you but Egyptians aren’t black and many ethnically white or at least lighter skin toned civilizations have lived in northern Africa…Carthage for one. Not sure where you learned your history…
Not sure where you learned your history, or what map you’re looking at, but Egypt is located on the continent of Africa. It is not in the middle east, which is a made up term, and area created by white people who came, and conquered. The ancient Egyptians, as well as the present ones were not white people. They intermingled with other cultures, but they were most definitely of African origin. Sadly most Americans get their history from Hollywood films, which have been whitewashing Egypt for decades now.
Moses should be played by a person of color, as should the entire cast, if they are interested in any sort of historical accuracy. Of course they won’t tho.
Yes, because stories from the bible are very historically accurate.
Most whites that believe that Egypt was white are just fascinated by the monuments that the ancient Egyptians built, and think in their prejudice minds blacks could not have done this, but yes in fact they did. Egypt was black around the time of Moses that being on the Hebrew calendar some almost 6 thousand years ago, but the pyramids are probably older. Hollywood is Hollywood and always tell the white lie. It should be called Whiteywood that sounds more truthful. Only after Egypt was conquered did whites descend upon it trying to claim a black civilization which was pathetic because they were mesmerized by the greatness of it.
Superman a comic hero a more of a middle eastern Jew. His name is Kal’el that’s a Hebrew word. His father’s name is Jor’el and that’s a Hebrew word. He wasn’t sent adrift in a wicker basket, but in a spaceship when he was a baby. Hollywood did well on that. Now Christian Bale should turn this down or at least darken his hair and give him a middle eastern accent and a nice brown tan, but Pharaoh can’t be white at all. Hollywood needs to do this one right.
It’d be awesome if they use the fish fish pasta song for the moses trailer.
I thought that the part of Moses had already been given to Russell Crowe when Bale opted out?
I forgot it wasn’t Moses but Noah that Russell Crowe is playing in an upcoming movie.
Bale will certainly get into the part. Wonder if he will demand changing any of the commandments as part of his deal. Will the 40 days and 40 nights be down to 1 day and 1 night on stage doing night for day. I am anxious to see the burning bush. Ridley Scott making a small fire…I doubt it. And the parting of the Red Sea..it is going to be big. All in allI think the two of them will make a great movie. Bale is great and will bring a lot of passion and detail to playing Moses..But please don’t bring in Ben Kingsley playing the Pharoah. No one living can beat Yul Bryner. The line with a snap of a finger “So it is written so it is done.” As important as “I will give them an offer he can’t refuse” Producers be smart be classy this is Moses for Christ sake.
Denzel Washington as the Pharoah or Moses, please.
Mark Strong as Moses.
I think Bale will opt out of this project just like he did with Noah.
Bale turned Noah down to do the Terrence Malick films. So I guess if he feels that a better offer comes along he could turn this down as well but I’m sure that he won’t decline the chance to get to work with Ridley Scott lightly.
I think that the two upcoming Biblical roles were badly miscast. If Christian Bale had been able to do the movie Noah, that’s a role that would’ve been more interesting and more suitable for him to play. On the other hand, I could’ve saw a more mature and worldly Russell Crowe playing the role of Moses. Too bad Ridley Scott didn’t consider this role for Crowe long beforehand, it would’ve been a guaranteed Oscar contender for both director and actor category easily.
well after all I’ve read above about Egypt: BEYONCE & J-Z are the only right casting choices!!