Iggy Pop Set to Narrate ‘Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition’ Documentary

Shock rocker Iggy Pop has lent his voice to a brand new documentary on Historical Egyptian youngster king Tutankhamun.

“Tutankhamun: The Final Exhibition” concurrently charts the historical past 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 additionally seems within the doc and serves as a producer and director of pictures.

The Italian model is narrated by musician Manuel Agnelli and the producers determined to go together with a musician somewhat than an actor for the worldwide model too. “We have been in search of anyone that might give a special attraction to the narration of the film,” mentioned Nexus’s Rosella Gioffré. “And we considered [Pop] and he accepted.”

“After we heard his voice for the primary time we mentioned that is the voice,” Vannini chimed in from Egypt, the place he’s at the moment working. “That is what we’d like for this movie. The voice of Iggy Pop is just unimaginable.”

“When he learn the story what he was going to relate he was instantly eager to work with us.”

The tour contained over 150 artefacts from the boy king’s grave, the biggest quantity ever exhibited exterior Egypt. The exhibition was attributable to tour till 2023 however was minimize quick as a result of pandemic. The Egyptian authorities has since decreed Tut and his treasure won’t ever once more depart the nation.

The doc was additionally impacted by the pandemic. It was initially attributable to be launched in 2020 however in the long run the timing labored out. “We’re more than pleased as a result of we’re going to hit the centenary of the invention,” mentioned Gioffré.

Tutankhamun’s grave was found in November 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon (whose ancestral residence, by the way, is Highclere Citadel, higher recognized lately as the home in Downton Abbey).

Nexo will distribute the doc in Italy and have offered it to Spain, New Zealand and Australia, amongst different territories. They’re at the moment in negotiations with US and Japanese patrons.