It is inspired by Egyptian mythology, but it makes no attempt at historical accuracy because that would be pointless - none of the events in the movie ever really happened. Proyas explains, “As I have already mentioned the world of Gods of Egypt never really existed. The cast includes Chadwick Boseman as Thoth, Geoffrey Rush as Ra, Rufus Sewell as Urshu, Elodie Young as Hathor and Gordon Kleut as Anibus. He enlists the help of the powerful god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) in an unlikely alliance against Set (Gerard Butler), the god of darkness.
The screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless follows mortal hero Bek (Brenton Thwaites) as he sets out to save the world and rescue his true love. Proyas makes only a passing reference to the controversy over the alleged whitewashing of the characters, which prompted apologies from the director and Lionsgate, both acknowledging the casting should have been more diverse. Using his Facebook page as a virtual blog, the filmmaker expresses his disdain for contemporary superhero movies, describes Gods of Egypt as a love story on many levels, and signals his ambition to turn Frank Herbert’s seminal 1964 sci-fi novel Dune into a trilogy. But the results are pretty spectacular if I might say so. "We used an assorted number of techniques, some quite simple and 'traditional,' namely forced perspective, often shooting with two cameras side by side, other techniques involved the dreaded motion control, which I hate using as it is kind of like watching paint dry.
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