Shock rocker Iggy Pop has lent his voice to a new documentary on Ancient Egyptian child king Tutankhamun.
“Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition” simultaneously charts the history of the tomb’s discovery in 1922 and the preparation of the record-breaking touring Tutankhamun exhibition, which launched in Los Angeles in 2019.
The doc was produced in Italy by acclaimed antiquities photographer Sandro Vannini’s Laboratoriorosso Srl in partnership with Nexo Digital. Vannini also appears in the doc and serves as a producer and director of photography.
The Italian version is narrated by musician Manuel Agnelli and the producers decided to go with a musician rather than an actor for the international version too. “We were looking for somebody that could give a different appeal to the narration of the movie,” said Nexus’s Rosella Gioffré. “And we thought of [Pop] and he accepted.”
“When we heard his voice for the first time we said this is the voice,...
“Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition” simultaneously charts the history of the tomb’s discovery in 1922 and the preparation of the record-breaking touring Tutankhamun exhibition, which launched in Los Angeles in 2019.
The doc was produced in Italy by acclaimed antiquities photographer Sandro Vannini’s Laboratoriorosso Srl in partnership with Nexo Digital. Vannini also appears in the doc and serves as a producer and director of photography.
The Italian version is narrated by musician Manuel Agnelli and the producers decided to go with a musician rather than an actor for the international version too. “We were looking for somebody that could give a different appeal to the narration of the movie,” said Nexus’s Rosella Gioffré. “And we thought of [Pop] and he accepted.”
“When we heard his voice for the first time we said this is the voice,...
- 7/10/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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