As soon as the trailer for Gods of Egypt landed in November, it whipped up a sandstorm of online indignation over the casting of mostly white actors ... movies for black audiences, including ...

The most popular and circulated images have a way ... s casting and movies like Gods of Egypt also highlight the struggle for non-white actors to land jobs. If Arab, black, or mixed-race actors ...

Scott’s movie, like “Gods of Egypt,” was blasted for having a predominately white cast ... Abrams cast black actors John Boyega and Lupita Nyong’o and Guatemalan American actor Oscar ...

The swords-and-sandals fantasy film Gods of Egypt was the latest movie to face accusations of whitewashing, but its director and studio are owning up to the controversy. “The process of ...

British actor Christian Bale plays Moses in Ridley Scott’s new film Exodus: Gods and ... of the mostly white cast, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted: “Since when are Egyptians not white?

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.” The cast of “Gods of Egypt” includes Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, Geoffrey Rush, Elodie Yung ...

This is the Egyptian god Osiris ... love that scene at the end when an all-black crowd of peasants drop to their knees and cheer for their Caucasian god-king. It’s as if the filmmakers heard ...

Arriving just days before the all-white Oscars is Alex Proyas‘ fantasy-adventure film set in an ancient Egypt almost entirely populated, mortals and gods alike, by Caucasians, including Gerard ...

LOS ANGELES — “Gods of Egypt” director Alex Proyas apologized for casting mostly white actors in his upcoming film based on Egyptian mythology. The filmmaker and studio Lionsgate issued ...

Gods of Egypt, featuring the Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Scotland’s Gerard Butler as Ancient Egyptian deities, opens in America on 26 February, but drew criticism when a trailer ...