![]() ![]() Meanwhile, there was a great debate over the casting of the two male leads, the roles of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. So, Fox was hooked up with some space at London’s Pinewood Studio, and when Wanger went to take a look, he felt physically ill: these stages were way too small! 3 How could they possibly make an epic film here? Not to mention that striking the sets back in Hollywood was their first (and definitely not their last) huge waste of money. If the powers-that-be at Fox thought this a canny financial move, that was their grave (almost literally grave) mistake. 2 Most decisions about who, what, where, why, and how in the movie biz come down to money. Rank, and of course, there was a financial wheeling and dealing there. It was one of the weirdest archaeological digs of all time.) When you think “ancient Egypt,” the city of London does not usually or logically spring to mind.īut Skouras apparently insisted on filming in London because he was schmoozing out a relationship with the English production company Arthur J. In 1959, that fake ancient city was still out there, covered by the desert sands, awaiting archaeologists to find it. DeMille had managed to build an entire ancient city out in the desert, back in the silent era, for his first version of The Ten Commandments (1923). ![]() 1 Now, when you think “ancient Egypt,” southern California is a pretty good match. But according to the movie’s producer Walter Wanger, the Studio’s president, Spyros Skouras, was the one who decided that they would shoot the movie abroad. Sets were being built to recreate ancient Egypt in the southern California sunshine. In 1959, 20th Century Fox Studios was poised to shoot their somewhat-modestly budgeted Cleopatra, starring Elizabth Taylor, on their studio backlot in Hollywood. Elizabeth Taylor, still from Cleopatra (1963), 20th Century Fox. ![]()
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