If you were to put a picture in your head of the cast of a movie taking place in ancient Egypt, the time of pyramids and pharaohs, what would the picture look like?

Surely, there must be some color in that picture. After all, a majority of all Egyptians and North Africans are and have been brownish in skin color for thousands of years. If your imaginary picture looks like mine, then congratulations, you are wrong.

This picture in your head is director Ridley Scott’s latest movie, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” released Dec. 12.

“The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues,” reads IMDb’s description for the film.

The movie, which appears to be nothing but a live action rendition of the Disney classic “Prince of Egypt,” casts famous white actor CHRISTIAN Bale as JEWISH leader Moses (the irony is too real), and blond-haired, blue-eyed, Australian Joel Edgerton as King Ramses.

Clearly, we are supposed to believe makeup and extreme amounts of eyeliner turn Crocodile Dundee into a powerful Egyptian pharaoh.

Almost all the main cast is white, but that does not mean blacks did not get a part in this winter blockbuster. No, black cast members are used repeatedly, mainly playing the role of assassins, servants, and thieves, according to critics. But let’s hear the defense.

Rupert Murdoch, media mogul with a controlling interest in 20th Century Fox, the studio behind “Exodus,” took to Twitter to defend the integrity of the film.

“Moses film attacked on Twitter for all white cast. Since when are Egyptians not white?  All I know are,” read Murdoch’s first tweet on Nov. 28.

To answer your question, Mr. Murdoch, I’ll try and keep it short and simple. Never. Egyptians have never been a primarily white population. I wonder how many people constitute “all” the white Egyptians Murdoch claims to know.

“Everybody-attacks last tweet.  Of course Egyptians are Middle Eastern, but far from black. They treated blacks as slaves,” read Murdoch’s second tweet.

In truth, Murdoch isn’t lying. Egyptian slaves were mainly prisoners of war won in wars fought in other parts of Africa. So now, using Murdoch’s logic, we are left to assume that these ancient, white Egyptians treated blacks – apparently everyone in Africa who isn’t in Egypt – as slaves.

Murdoch made one last attempt to make things right with the Twitter-verse.

“Okay, there are many shades of color.  Nothing racist about that, so calm down!” read Murdoch’s last tweet just 11 minutes after he posted the second tweet.

In response to that, I’ll just speak on behalf of the intelligent community when I say: apology not accepted.

The biggest shocker of this tweet is not the unnecessary hyphen between “Everybody” and “attacks”, it’s the last bit which states that Egyptians are far from black and treated blacks like slaves.

The movie I just described was director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator)’s latest motion picture, Exodus: Gods and Kings, released Dec. 12.