Moroccans eager to see director Ridley Scott's film "Exodus: Gods and Kings" in cinema are in luck because their country has reversed the ban placed on the Hollywood blockbuster.
While some around the region were turned off by the movie in general as it gives visual representation of the prophet Moses, the big beef the Moroccan Cinematography Center had with it was the part when Moses gets a revelation that is implied to come directly from God. They told the country's theaters on December 27 not to show the film in cinema because of this highly offensive scene, reported AP.
Not ones to let those Moroccan Dirhams slip through the box office cracks, Fox Studios and Ridley got together to edit out the section that had the North African country all wound up.
According to AP, the Moroccan Cinematography Center said in a statement, "They went ahead and made the desired change, removing two audio passages that alluded to the personification of the Divine."
Despite countries like the UAE and Egypt having given the film the cold shoulder for "historical inaccuracies", two deleted lines was all it took for "The Exodus" to make its way into Morocco's movie theaters after all.
Meanwhile in the North American movie theaters, "Exodus" is totally killing it, bringing in $24.5 million in one weekend and making it the No. 1 film in the continent back in December.
