GODS OF EGYPT Posters Introduce Alex Proyas' Colourful Characters

GODS OF EGYPT Posters Introduce Alex Proyas' Colourful Characters

It's been a while since we've heard anything from Alex Proyas' mythological fantasy adventure, and now we get a look at all of the main characters at once via these posters. See Chadwick Boseman as Thoth, Gerard Butler as Set, Elodie Yung as Hathor, and more after the jump...

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 13, 2015 05:11 AM EST
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The posters come courtesy of Yahoo!, IMDb, EW, Hitfix, Lionsgate, and Just Jared. We aslo have the first official synopsis for the movie below.

Magic, monsters, gods and madness reign throughout the palaces and pyramids of the Nile River Valley in this action-adventure inspired by the classic mythology of Egypt. With the survival of mankind hanging in the balance, an unexpected hero takes a thrilling journey to save the world and rescue his true love. Set (Gerard Butler), the merciless god of darkness, has usurped Egypt’s throne, plunging the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. With only a handful of heroic rebels opposing Set’s savage rule, Bek (Brenton Thwaites), a bold and defiant mortal, enlists the aid of powerful god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in an unlikely alliance against the evil overlord. As their breathtaking battle against Set and his henchmen take them into the afterlife and across the heavens, both god and mortal must pass tests of courage and sacrifice if they hope to prevail in the spectacular final confrontation.


Gods of Egypt opens February 26th.
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Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 11/12/2015, 10:49 AM
Just for a second there...I got Exited....
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 11/12/2015, 10:56 AM
I don't think the director knows what an Egyptian looks like.
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/12/2015, 11:07 AM
It's the Mandarin!!!!
Effusion
Effusion - 11/13/2015, 5:24 AM
I'm getting a Clash of the Titans vibe.
Kevwebsz
Kevwebsz - 11/13/2015, 5:26 AM
Poster says Set is god of the desert while the synopsis says god of darkness. Get it together Leonidas.
GoogleWasMyIdea
GoogleWasMyIdea - 11/13/2015, 5:32 AM
@DeathAdder That was arguably one of the absolute WORST castings ever. Idris Elba deserves better than that role, and we all know it.
Jiloco
Jiloco - 11/13/2015, 5:33 AM
Wow! Just.....Wow! They're all white!!! Well, except the obligatory black guy. This is just stupid.
TheAmarilloBlack
TheAmarilloBlack - 11/13/2015, 5:40 AM
Um...this looks...yeah...

Good for Chadwick, tho!
GoogleWasMyIdea
GoogleWasMyIdea - 11/13/2015, 5:42 AM
@DeathAdder Weeeeell whitewashing has been happening since like forever. There aren't that many prominant roles for people of color, like, AT ALL. Continuing to whitewash in this day and age is stupid, ESPECIALLY when it makes no sense for them to be white. James Bond can be white or black or even freaking asian, so long as he's a suave Brit. 007 and the name Bond is a codename, that is all. Egyptians weren't white.
nibs
nibs - 11/13/2015, 5:47 AM
Looks like a classic
johnblake
johnblake - 11/13/2015, 5:51 AM
Do not think i have ever been this pissed off about white washing. What is this garbage. They chose the whitest people to play egyptian gods. Egypt was in AFRICA. No one is an african on these posters. Egyptions with blonde hair. This is completley racist. This is like filming a wuxiq film with all mexicans.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 11/13/2015, 5:52 AM
GoogleWasMyIdea, thanks... I really didn't want to have to explain all that.
Omega
Omega - 11/13/2015, 5:54 AM
Ancient Egypt was not a black civilization....

Ancient Egypt was a racially diverse place, because the Nile River drew people from all over the region.
johnblake
johnblake - 11/13/2015, 5:56 AM
They could madr an all black cast like it should be and hollywood could used this film to prove they are no longer racist. But between this and the stone wall trailer hollywood have confirmed everything blacks have been saying for years. Hollywood is extremly racist.
Klone
Klone - 11/13/2015, 5:59 AM
Silly [foo foo]s thinking the Egyptians were black. When the Nubian mixing came in, yes, but blacks did not build Egypt up as a great power.
johnblake
johnblake - 11/13/2015, 5:59 AM
@ OMEGA- sure is that why when they find mummies they are found with afros and dreads. Or even hair pics. But that is an argument for another day. Im sure with both can agree that they were not white as depicted in these images. Egyptians actually enslaved both groups that would become europeans and asians during their hayday. So this movie is disgusting.
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 11/13/2015, 6:00 AM
#Excited



Klone
Klone - 11/13/2015, 6:02 AM
@Omega

Didn't the race mixing correlate with its degradation as civilisation? Like how Rome's decline correlated with its multicultural policies by having the barbarians conscripted into their military.
theBlackSquare
theBlackSquare - 11/13/2015, 6:03 AM
"We need to depict 'Love' for Hathors poster, any ideas?"
"I was thinking of dropping in a couple of fire breathing snakes."
"Yep sounds good"

Also Thoth. Token God. Of cloning.

What is this nonsense!
Omega
Omega - 11/13/2015, 6:05 AM
@Klone Those who obeyed the king, spoke the language, and worshipped the proper gods were considered Egyptian. Outsiders were allowed to marry Egyptians. Even the aristocracy was racially integrated. Princesses from the Levant joined the Egyptian nobility. Maiherpri, a dark-skinned Nubian who lived shortly before the reign of Ramses II, was also part of the Egyptian royal court and was buried in the Valley of the Kings.
Klone
Klone - 11/13/2015, 6:05 AM
Even if we play devil's advocate and say the Egyptians were black... well guess what? They constantly tried to emulate the Greeks and were surpassed by the much younger Rome... so people whom claim Egyptians were black still have that indirect slap across the face because of such facts.
Omega
Omega - 11/13/2015, 6:05 AM
@johnblake Mummies are too desiccated to reveal skin tone, and the tiny amount of genetic evidence they have yielded so far adds nothing to the question. As the Explainer wrote back in 2011, small differences in bone structure don’t reliably indicate the race of a recently deceased person, let alone a 3,000-year-old corpse. We are mostly limited to the subjective statements of Egyptians and the outsiders who depicted them, which suggest that majority of people of pharaonic Egypt were neither white nor black, by modern standards.
Klone
Klone - 11/13/2015, 6:07 AM
@Omega

I know the aristocracy mixed. It's foolish to deny they did eventually become mixed with the Nubians and Africans though claiming it was blacks whom are responsible for Egypt being built up as a great civilisation is something entirely different. And it's hard to swallow given the backwater sub-Saharan "civilisations" and "empires" were, even devoid of any Arab and European meddlings.
Klone
Klone - 11/13/2015, 6:10 AM
The assertions Egypt was brilliant because of blacks, to the point of aggression, seems to mostly stem from resentment of most African, especially sub-Saharan ones, being nothing compared to the ones in Arabia, Europe, Northest Asia, etc. Even if Egypt was built up by black people and made brilliant by them, that still seems to be the primary motivation for insisting it was so nowadays, not simply getting down to the truth.
CharlyZarkov
CharlyZarkov - 11/13/2015, 6:10 AM
Well, they should have animal heads to begin with. By the way, the whitewashing of Egyptian deities began a long, long, time ago. That's how Horus became Jesus:

JamesMann
JamesMann - 11/13/2015, 6:10 AM
Thoth about to drop the hottest mixtape.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/13/2015, 6:10 AM
F*ck you, Hollywood!
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 11/13/2015, 6:11 AM
So no Isis or Osiris, then. Probably a good thing with the whole Isis/Isil war going on.
But still, I thought this was going to be the Osiris myth. Y'know, the dramatic play that actually started all known theatre actually getting a big screen Hollywood interpretation. But it is, in fact, just an average Hollywood melodrama, with an Egyptian flavour to it. It's a brave hero versus evil god with a good gods on his side, blah, blah, blah...

Still, it's been a good long while since I saw an Alex Proyas film. And I do love me some Hathor. So who knows, right?
Omega
Omega - 11/13/2015, 6:12 AM
The skin color of ancient Egyptians is a long-running modern debate, both among scholars and in the lay community, even if the ancient Egyptians themselves didn’t much care about it.
johnblake
johnblake - 11/13/2015, 6:13 AM
Not true. Any quick google search of egyption will show all reliefs of egyptians were people of color. Accounts of tge sphinx prior to the destruction of its nose describe its nose as "negroid" the sphinx is older than the pyramids. Google king tuts grandmothers bust. Her afro is stronger than than DR.Js afro. The only reason that its not accepted that were people of color is because the western world is eurocentric. When in fact asain and african societies were on the technological forefront for most of history.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/13/2015, 6:14 AM
johnblake
johnblake - 11/13/2015, 6:15 AM
And even if you were right and i was completeley wrong they couldve at least hire modern egyptian actors. This is complety an insult.
YeezusWept
YeezusWept - 11/13/2015, 6:15 AM
@JamesMann
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 11/13/2015, 6:16 AM
I'm also disappointed they don't have animal heads.. or even features. Was hoping Set would be much more dog-like.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/13/2015, 6:17 AM
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