Director Ridley Scott’s Moses epic Exodus is reportedly close to gaining a quartet of strong actors, highlighted by Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver. The two, along with Aaron Paul and John Turturro, are in talks for the ambitious project.
According to a source for TheWrap, Turturro and Weaver would play Seti and Tuya, the parents of Ramses. Weaver worked with Scott on Alien and was nominated for an Oscar for Aliens. She’s slated to be working with James Cameron again on the Avatar sequels.
Deadline reports that Paul, who has won two Emmys for Breaking Bad, would play Joshua, who leads the Jews after Moses. Kingsley would take the part of a Hebrew scholar. Variety first reported on the Paul casting news.
The casting news for the film follows Joel Edgerton’s casting as Ramses. Christian Bale has been attached to the project to play Moses.
The project is set up at 20th Century Fox and was written by Steve Zaillian, after a draft by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage.
While there’s no target release date for the film, it will likely be the next project for Scott, whose The Counselor comes out in October. That film was written by Cormac McCarthy and stars Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt.
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