History Trivia / ExodusGodsAndKings

* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/JoelEdgerton co-leads [[Film/{{Warrior}} a movie about (or in this very film's case, would be) estranged brothers]].
** Likewise, Creator/ChristianBale plays [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy a person who comes from wealth who wishes to protect the innocent]]. (Also, [[Creator/ValKilmer the second Batman]] to play [[WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt Moses]]).
** Director Allusion - Ramses says to his sleeping son "You sleep so well, because you know you are loved", a line from Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. Both times the line is delivered by the film's main antagonist.
** It's very appropriate that Creator/BenKingsley gives Moses advice, since he was Moses himself in a 1995 film.

** Creator/StevenSpielberg and later Creator/AngLee were reportedly attached to a Moses movie called ''Gods and Kings'' for Creator/WarnerBrothers, developed independently of this film which was always a Ridley Scott project. Since this has claimed the ''Gods and Kings'' title, DuelingMovies seems to have been averted.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The 'Gods and Kings' subtitle was added after it was discovered Creator/{{MGM}} had the rights to the title 'Exodus,' after a film they released in 1960.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The 'Gods and Kings' subtitle was added after it was discovered Creator/{{MGM}} had the rights to the title 'Exodus,' after a film they released in 1960.

* FakeNationality: Like [[Film/TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner]] before them, Creator/ChristianBale, who played Moses, isn't Jewish and Creator/JoelEdgerton, who played Ramses, isn't Egyptian.

* FakeNationality: Like [[Film/TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner]] before them, Creator/ChristianBale and Creator/JoelEdgerton aren't Egyptian.

* FakeNationality: Like [[Film/TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner]] before them, Creator/ChristianBale and Creator/JoelEdgerton aren't Middle Eastern.

* DawsonCasting: Fifty-seven year old John Turturo playing Seti I who died at forty-four.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/ChristianBale almost didn't get the role of Moses because he had gained so much weight for ''Film/AmericanHustle''. He lost all the weight required and read the first five books of the Bible, as well as the Qur'an to prepare.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The 'Gods and Kings' subtitle was added after it was discovered Creator/{{MGM}} had the rights to the title 'Exodus', after a film they released in 1960.

** Director Allusion - Ramses says to his sleeping son "You sleep so well, because you know you are loved", a line from Ridley Scott's ''Film/{{Gladiator}}''. Both times the line is delivered by the film's main antagonist.
** It's very appropriate that Ben Kingsley gives Moses advice, since he was Moses himself in a 1995 film.

* DyeingForYourArt: Christian Bale almost didn't get the role of Moses because he had gained so much weight for ''Film/AmericanHustle''. He lost all the weight required and read the first five books of the Bible, as well as the Qur'an to prepare.
* FakeNationality: Like [[Film/TheTenCommandments Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner]] before them, Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton aren't Middle Eastern.
* RealitySubtext: The film is dedicated to Ridley Scott's brother, fellow director Creator/TonyScott, who died in 2012. Since the film is about two brothers, more than a few reviewers have tried to read meanings into this.

** Oscar Isaac and Javier Bardem were offered the role of Ramses but both turned it down.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: The 'Gods and Kings' subtitle was added after it was discovered MGM had the rights to the title 'Exodus', after a film they released in 1960.