Gods Behaving Badly (film)

Gods Behaving Badly is a 2013 film adaptation of Marie Phillips' 2007 satire novel Gods Behaving Badly. The film is the feature-length directorial debut of Marc Turtletaub, who is better known as a film producer.^[1]

Gods Behaving Badly
Film poster
Directed by	Marc Turtletaub
Written by	Marie Phillips Josh Goldfaden
Based on	Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Produced by	Peter Saraf Marc Turtletaub Caroline Jaczbo
Starring	Alicia Silverstone Christopher Walken Sharon Stone John Turturro Edie Falco Oliver Platt Rosie Perez
Cinematography	Tak Fujimoto
Edited by	Alan Heim Joe Landauer
Music by	Christopher Young
Production company	Big Beach Films
Release date	November 13, 2013 (2013-11-13) (Rome Film Festival)
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

The film is about a young mortal couple (Alicia Silverstone and Ebon Moss-Bachrach) who encounter a group of Greek gods living in New York City.^[2]

Cast

• Alicia Silverstone as Kate
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Neil
• Christopher Walken as Zeus
• Sharon Stone as Aphrodite
• John Turturro as Hades
• Edie Falco as Artemis
• Oliver Platt as Apollo
• Rosie Perez as Persephone
• Phylicia Rashad as Demeter
• Nelsan Ellis as Dionysus
• Gideon Glick as Eros
• Laryssa Lauret as Trudy
• Henry Zebrowski as Hermes
• Will Swenson as Ares
• Glenn Fleshler as Landauer
• Aasif Mandvi as Maxwell
• Kathleen Turner as Styx

Production

The film was shot during mid-2011.^[3] The setting of the story was changed from contemporary London to modern day New York City.^[4]

Release

The film was shot in 2011 and premiered at the 2013 Rome Film Festival,^[5] where it received negative reviews,^[6][7] and was never officially released.