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Clods of Egypt

I will not link to the Gods of "Egypt" trailer because... foolishness. But here's a free tip from me to Ridley Scott, Alex Proyas and any other person who wants to crap all over real, established, existing history of humans on this planet to make their silly movies.
Narnia.
or.
Xanth.
or
Westoros.
or
Any other fantasy world you want to create.
This is especially true of Proyas' soon to be flop which stars two male leads that haven't been financially successful in opening a movie since 300 (Butler) and... well, never (the Game of Thrones dude).
When your movie features effects-laden flying people in armor and 300-foot-long demon cobras, you might as well take the next step and just invent a magical land where you don't have to face backlash about casting people who LITERALLY would not be white.
Egypt is in AFRICA. The cradle of civilization. They knew about people of different races, BUT THEIR GODS HAD SKIN LIKE THEIRS... which was (and is) not white. FULL STOP. Not for nothing, they also had animal heads on human bodies, but NOTWITHSTANDING THAT, they were NOT WHITE.
I just can't with this. Proyas invented his own mythology anyway. Why not just take it to the next level and make it Gods of Sayorp (see what I did there)?
This movie had to cost in the 9 figures... Good luck with that.
BONUS POINTS FOR OPENING IN BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!
Le. Sigh.

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