According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zero Dark Thirty star Joel Edgerton is in talks to play the Egyptian leader Ramses in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Biblical epic Exodus. In an interview with Esquire last year, Scott said the relationship between Ramses and Moses, who will be played by Christian Bale, is central to the film. “What’s interesting to me about Moses isn’t the big stuff that everybody knows. It’s things like his relationship with Ramses [II, the pharaoh]. I honestly wasn’t paying attention in school when I was told the story of Moses. Some of the details of his life are extraordinary” …
