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* Creator/DanielDayLewis was considered for the role of Moses, but a deal was never reached.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/MelBrooks were considered for the role of Jethro.
* Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/IanMcKellen were considered for the role of Seti.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.
* Creator/JenniferAniston was considered for the role of Tzipporah.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for the role of Moses.
* Creator/RichardSchliff and Creator/CheechMarin were considered for the role of Hotep.
* Creator/TomWaits and Creator/TommyChong were considered for the role of Huy.
* Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/GaryOldman were considered for the role of Rameses.
* Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Tuya.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/MelBrooks were considered for the role of Jethro.
* Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/IanMcKellen were considered for the role of Seti.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.
* Creator/JenniferAniston was considered for the role of Tzipporah.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for the role of Moses.
* Creator/RichardSchliff and Creator/CheechMarin were considered for the role of Hotep.
* Creator/TomWaits and Creator/TommyChong were considered for the role of Huy.
* Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/GaryOldman were considered for the role of Rameses.
* Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Tuya.
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* Creator/DanielDayLewis was considered for the role of Moses, but a deal was never reached.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/MelBrooksMany other actors were considered for roles in the role of Jethro.film:
** Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg for Moses.
* Creator/JeremyIrons ** Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/IanMcKellen were considered Creator/MelBrooks for the role of Seti.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.Jethro.
* Creator/JenniferAniston was considered ** Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/IanMcKellen for the role of Tzipporah.Seti.
** Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula for Aaron.
** Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell for Miriam.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered ** Creator/JenniferAniston for the role of Moses.Tzipporah.
* ** Creator/RichardSchliff and Creator/CheechMarin were considered for the role of Hotep.
* ** Creator/TomWaits and Creator/TommyChong were considered for the role of Huy.
* ** Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/GaryOldman were considered for the role of Rameses.
* ** Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Tuya.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/MelBrooks
** Creator/DanielDayLewis, Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg for Moses.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.
** Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula for Aaron.
** Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell for Miriam.
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* Originally there was a servant that would serve as a major character where Moses and Rameses would talk to their staff in the same way the characters in Series/DowntonAbbey would, The character was scrapped to focus more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses. Though the character was scrapped he does appear in a few brief scenes and is humorously referred to by the film's staff as “You There”.
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* Originally there was a servant that would serve as a major character where Moses and Rameses would talk to their staff in the same way the characters in Series/DowntonAbbey would, would. The character was scrapped to focus more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses. Though the character was scrapped he Rameses, though does appear in a few brief scenes and is humorously referred to by the film's staff as “You There”.
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[[caption-width-right:350:An early design of Moses from a early test animation.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:An early alternate character design of for Moses from a an early test animation.]]
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* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/VernonWells were considered for the role of Jethro.
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* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/KeithDavid, Creator/VernonWells and Creator/MelBrooks were considered for the role of Jethro.
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* A scene with a talking camel was scrapped and Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll. Bizarrely, there is some historical evidence since Ramses II was an avid cat person -- he had hundreds imported from other countries to Egypt and had a lion as a personal pet who fought alongside him at Kadesh.
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* A scene with a talking camel was scrapped and Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll. Bizarrely, there is some historical evidence [[ShownTheirWork evidence]] since Ramses II was an avid cat person -- he had hundreds imported from other countries to Egypt and had a lion [[PantheraAwesome lion]] as a personal pet who [[ActionPet fought alongside him at Kadesh.Kadesh]].
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!''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''
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[[caption-width-right:350:An early design of Moses from a early test animation.]]
!Examples
* It was planned to combine the voices of a man, a woman, and a child for the voice of God. But they had Kilmer voice God instead because it was thought some might have problems with God sounding female. That and the fact that their synthesized composite voices apparently sounded much more [[VoiceOfTheLegion demonic]] than Godly. There are elements of this in the film itself, as the backing chorus of "The Plagues" are from His perspective.
* Originally there was a servant that would serve as a major character where Moses and Rameses would talk to their staff in the same way the characters in Series/DowntonAbbey would, The character was scrapped to focus more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses. Though the character was scrapped he does appear in a few brief scenes and is humorously referred to by the film's staff as “You There”.
* A scene with a talking camel was scrapped and Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll. Bizarrely, there is some historical evidence since Ramses II was an avid cat person -- he had hundreds imported from other countries to Egypt and had a lion as a personal pet who fought alongside him at Kadesh.
* Moses also originally had two dogs as his side-kicks. Though they were later scrapped from the film as a whole, you still see them two times, first when Moses finds them and one of the servants tied up in his room, and again during "All I Ever Wanted." Ironically, the dog and cat ideas would be used in the MockBuster "WesternAnimation/MosesEgyptsGreatPrince".
* Jeffrey Katzenberg pitched this idea to Disney several times during his tenure there, but CEO Michael Eisner kept rejecting it (their relationship was starting to crumble, plus the idea did not fit Disney's animated MO at all; they have never really been comfortable with material involving God also bearing the Disney name outside of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', which didn't push it too heavily).
* Rameses was much more sympathetic in the original script, until the crew realized this made Moses look like a jerk for refusing to work with him to help the situation.
** At one point, Miriam was going to be the Hebrew slave beaten by the taskmaster whom Moses accidentally kills, in order to give Moses a more [[ItsPersonal personal]] reason for defending her. But eventually the writers realized it would be more meaningful for Moses to defend a stranger, so a random man took Miriam’s place.
* During the moment in which Rameses shoots Moses a DeathGlare during the aftermath of the tenth plague, he was originally going to also reach for a knife. There was also meant to be a scene of Rameses preparing his army to chase after the Hebrews. Both scenes were cut due to being too cliche.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrV_3AVsSKU This early test animation reel]] shows early designs of some characters.
** At the 0:10 to 0:24 mark shows an early design of both Moses and partially Rameses.
** It also shows an early design of Seti at the 1:51 to 2:08 mark
** An early design of Hotep and Huy at the 2:10 to 2:24 and 2:33 to 2:46 mark.
** And an early design of Jethro at the 2:26 to 2:32 mark.
* Creator/DanielDayLewis was considered for the role of Moses, but a deal was never reached.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/VernonWells were considered for the role of Jethro.
* Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/IanMcKellen were considered for the role of Seti.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.
* Creator/JenniferAniston was considered for the role of Tzipporah.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for the role of Moses.
* Creator/RichardSchliff and Creator/CheechMarin were considered for the role of Hotep.
* Creator/TomWaits and Creator/TommyChong were considered for the role of Huy.
* Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/GaryOldman were considered for the role of Rameses.
* Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Tuya.
[[caption-width-right:350:An early design of Moses from a early test animation.]]
!Examples
* It was planned to combine the voices of a man, a woman, and a child for the voice of God. But they had Kilmer voice God instead because it was thought some might have problems with God sounding female. That and the fact that their synthesized composite voices apparently sounded much more [[VoiceOfTheLegion demonic]] than Godly. There are elements of this in the film itself, as the backing chorus of "The Plagues" are from His perspective.
* Originally there was a servant that would serve as a major character where Moses and Rameses would talk to their staff in the same way the characters in Series/DowntonAbbey would, The character was scrapped to focus more on the relationship between Moses and Rameses. Though the character was scrapped he does appear in a few brief scenes and is humorously referred to by the film's staff as “You There”.
* A scene with a talking camel was scrapped and Rameses was originally supposed to have two evil cats. Granted, these and the camel would have run counter-current to the mood of the film as a whole. Curiously, the camel did eventually show up in the form of a piece of merchandise for the film, as a little beanbag doll. Bizarrely, there is some historical evidence since Ramses II was an avid cat person -- he had hundreds imported from other countries to Egypt and had a lion as a personal pet who fought alongside him at Kadesh.
* Moses also originally had two dogs as his side-kicks. Though they were later scrapped from the film as a whole, you still see them two times, first when Moses finds them and one of the servants tied up in his room, and again during "All I Ever Wanted." Ironically, the dog and cat ideas would be used in the MockBuster "WesternAnimation/MosesEgyptsGreatPrince".
* Jeffrey Katzenberg pitched this idea to Disney several times during his tenure there, but CEO Michael Eisner kept rejecting it (their relationship was starting to crumble, plus the idea did not fit Disney's animated MO at all; they have never really been comfortable with material involving God also bearing the Disney name outside of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', which didn't push it too heavily).
* Rameses was much more sympathetic in the original script, until the crew realized this made Moses look like a jerk for refusing to work with him to help the situation.
** At one point, Miriam was going to be the Hebrew slave beaten by the taskmaster whom Moses accidentally kills, in order to give Moses a more [[ItsPersonal personal]] reason for defending her. But eventually the writers realized it would be more meaningful for Moses to defend a stranger, so a random man took Miriam’s place.
* During the moment in which Rameses shoots Moses a DeathGlare during the aftermath of the tenth plague, he was originally going to also reach for a knife. There was also meant to be a scene of Rameses preparing his army to chase after the Hebrews. Both scenes were cut due to being too cliche.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrV_3AVsSKU This early test animation reel]] shows early designs of some characters.
** At the 0:10 to 0:24 mark shows an early design of both Moses and partially Rameses.
** It also shows an early design of Seti at the 1:51 to 2:08 mark
** An early design of Hotep and Huy at the 2:10 to 2:24 and 2:33 to 2:46 mark.
** And an early design of Jethro at the 2:26 to 2:32 mark.
* Creator/DanielDayLewis was considered for the role of Moses, but a deal was never reached.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones, Creator/KeithDavid and Creator/VernonWells were considered for the role of Jethro.
* Creator/JeremyIrons and Creator/IanMcKellen were considered for the role of Seti.
* Creator/MichaelJFox, Creator/DaveFoley and Creator/ScottBakula were considered for the role of Aaron.
* Creator/EllenDeGeneres, Creator/JulietteBinoche and Creator/MaryMcDonnell were considered for Miriam.
* Creator/JenniferAniston was considered for the role of Tzipporah.
* Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/DennisQuaid and Creator/MarkWahlberg were considered for the role of Moses.
* Creator/RichardSchliff and Creator/CheechMarin were considered for the role of Hotep.
* Creator/TomWaits and Creator/TommyChong were considered for the role of Huy.
* Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/GaryOldman were considered for the role of Rameses.
* Creator/CarolBurnett was considered for the role of Tuya.
