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The Prince of Egypt (1998)

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• The original lyrics "You can do miracles when you believe" were changed to "There can be miracles when you believe," to avoid the implication that you (not God) can work miracles.
  
  
• The production team conferred with roughly 600 religious experts to make the film as accurate as possible.
  
  
• The movie is banned in Malaysia.
  
  

• The movie was also banned in Indonesia, but later released in Video CD format.
  
  
• It was originally intended that a woman and a child's voice would also be used, as God, but it was decided that might offend some viewers. Hence Val Kilmer played the voice of God also.
  
  
• When Moses and God are conversing, Val Kilmer is actually talking to himself
  
  
• The voice of God, to avoid controversy, was played by all the major actors. The actors were told to whisper the lines, so none would dominate the performance, but by the time they got around to having Val Kilmer read his lines, they realized they needed someone to be louder. You still can hear the rest of the cast whispering beneath Kilmer's voice in God's lines.
  
  
• Val Kilmer provides a voice for both Moses and God. Charlton Heston also played both parts in The Ten Commandments (1956).
  
  
• This movie was the most expensive animated feature ever made at the time, being beaten out by Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001).
  
  
• Obviously changes were made to the story to make it work as an animated feature. Here is a short list of differences between the movie and the Biblical account of the Exodus.
  • 1. Moses was "adopted" by Pharaoh's daughter, not his wife.
  • 2. Moses murdered the Egyptian slave master and even tried to hide his body, he did not kill him by accident.
  • 3. Aaron supported Moses from the beginning and even helped perform some of the miracles of God. Aaron did not doubt Moses.
  • 4. It was Aaron who turned his staff into a snake, turned the water of the Nile to blood, not Moses.
  
  
  
• Ralph Fiennes (the voice of Rameses) was considered for the title role of The Saint, which went to Val Kilmer (the voice of Moses/God).
  
  
• There are only four people who play both the singing and speaking parts of the characters. They are Ralph Fiennes (Rameses), Michelle Pfeiffer (Tzipporah), Martin Short (Huy), and Steve Martin (Hotep). All the other parts have different singers from their speakers.
  
  
• To disguise the real title before the world premiere, the film was sent to theaters under the title "Edgar Allan". POE - Prince Of Egypt.
  
  

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