The play

A long while ago we were asked to be the producers of a high school play called Eye Of Horus which was set in Egypt. The school's drama teacher Carl Wenham explained to us what the story was about. We were excited to be involved in the project until Carl told us it was to going to be a musical. We have produced many plays before and we had done a few musicals but we were not sure what to make of it. When he handed us the script both of us were shocked. Words cannot describe how horrified we were about the changes he had done to it. He had turned our vision of an epic into the next Springtime For Hitler. When the play was performed in front of the audience three weeks afterwards we were horrified at what a mess it had become. Here's what was wrong, there was too many songs in it and most of them sucked except for Walk Like An Egyptian, another thing that was absolutely wrong with it was the cast, the person playing the role of the Pharoah was a dorky teenage Asian boy called Kwon Wa and he was extremely unattractive and very unconvincing in the role, his acting was wooden and unlife-like, the person playing the role of the Pharoah's wife was even worse, she was a heavyset Caucasian girl called Tessa and let me tell you that she was anything but good in the role, first of all she looked like a fat man in drag and her performance was appauling, and then there's the person who played the so called "antagonist" the high priestess, a rather brutish unattractive girl named Sally Webster, her acting was by far the worst we've had ever seen, not to mention she was extremely ugly she looked like Rocky Dennis from Mask (you know, that really ugly kid) and her performance was stale. The plot was okay but it was screwed up because of all those stupid songs. Oh and one thing that bugged us about the whole thing was the fight scene between the Pharoah's army and the high priestess's sand people army- well for starters the high priestess's army of sand people was obviously a rip-off of the Tusken Raiders from Star Wars- and another thing that bothers me is that they get killed by the Pharoah's soldiers who then procede to foil the priestess's evil plan. We hated the whole thing, it was a nightmare come true. Carl had created a MONSTER! I mean this play was horrible, it made Battlefield Earth look like The Godfather. So the year after that me and my brother decided to do our own version of it, we made into a motion capture animated film. We made it kind of an Egpytian version of the film 300 with a bit of Army Of Darkness thrown in.

Here is a list of changes we did:
Used much cooler music such the usage of the song Let The Bodies Hit The Floor for the big battle scenes.
Made the character of the Pharoah a more attractive, more likable character. We also made the Pharoah's wife a more sophisticated woman, and made the priestess a lot more villainous, a little seductive and a lot easier on the eyes.
Replaced the "Sand People" army with an army of undead mummies.
Made the leader of the the pharoah's army a more manly hero type, we modelled him after Bruce Campbell's famous character Ash from the Evil Dead films. We even got our friend Sam Leno/Chinstar to do the voice of him since Chinstar himself has a lantern jaw of justice just like Bruce Campbell.
Made the plot even more epic than ever before.
For the scene where the Priestess does battle with the main hero we've made it that she turns into a big snake like Jafar from Aladdin when she puts on the amulet.
Also, we modelled the Pharoah's son after Kevin Sorbo.


When we showcased this little feature film in theatres we got a lot of positive reviews and feedback.

A lot of people seemed to prefer this one this over the play. It's true, our adaptation of the Eye Of Horus is much better than the play. We were quite proud of ourselves for making such an awesome film. You can get this awesome movie out on special edition dvd, which has several interesting bonus features including deleted scenes, trailers, behind the scenes documentaries and much more. It has plenty of action and romance and more than a few transformation scenes.