Gerard Butler on the red carpet for Gods of Egypt (2016)Image via Dara Kushner/INFphoto.com
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Rahul Malhotra is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.
He has been writing for Collider for over two years, and has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal to introduce audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Swing and a miss > measured victory. Also, #JusticeForHan. (He/Him). Sign in to your Collider account follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recapAround a decade after Zack Snyder's 300 catapulted him to mainstream stardom — and after an extended stint as a romantic comedy lead — Gerard Butler returned to the swords-and-sandals genre with the film Gods of Egypt. But his grand return couldn't have gone more disappointingly. The movie was panned by critics and rejected by audiences, earning backlash for the perceived whitewashing of its cast. Following the film's failure, director Alex Proyas famously described critics as "diseased vultures," and his own movie as "a dying carcass." Gods of Egypt remains an object of curiosity even a decade later, and continues to attract inquisitive audiences to experience its visual effects-enhanced fantasy world. But time is running out; if you haven't watched the film yet, you have only until December 7 to do so, because that's when it is leaving Netflix.
Released in 2016, Gods of Egypt was a quest movie that followed the adventures of Horus, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and a common thief played by Brenton Thwaites. The film's cast also included Chadwick Boseman, who'd go on to make his debut as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War not long afterward. Produced on a reported budget of $140 million, Gods of Egypt grossed only around $30 million domestically and around $150 million worldwide, supposedly losing as much as $90 million. Of course, the intricacies of its financial breakdown aren't public knowledge, but the production received major tax benefits for shooting in Australia.
Alex Proyas Ranted About the State of Film Criticism
Director Proyas is from Australia. He hasn't had a feature film release since Gods of Egypt's failure, which marked a massive low in his otherwise solid career. Proyas broke out with the science-fiction gem Dark City, and went on to make the ill-fated comic book adaptation The Crow, the Will Smith-led I, Robot, and the Nicolas Cage cult hit Knowing. Gods of Egypt was critically panned upon release, and its 15% score on Rotten Tomatoes compelled Proyas to lash out at critics in a Facebook post. He wrote:
"Now we have a pack of diseased vultures pecking at the bones of a dying carcass. Trying to peck to the rhythm of the consensus. I applaud any film-goer who values their own opinion enough to not base it on what the pack-mentality says is good or bad."
You can watch Gods of Egypt on Netflix, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Gods of Egypt
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