Gods of Egypt II: Rise of the Underworld

The throne is won. The peace is fragile. And the gods are not done.

Gods of Egypt II: Rise of the Underworld is a mythic continuation of the 2016 fantasy adventure, plunging deeper into the Egyptian pantheon with darker stakes, new gods, and a war that threatens both the mortal and divine realms. After the fall of Set and the restoration of Horus to the throne, Egypt breathes, briefly, in peace. But beneath the Nile’s surface, something stirs.

Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), now king of both gods and men, seeks to restore balance across a fractured kingdom. But ruling in peace proves harder than ruling in war. Temples have been desecrated. Divine relics stolen. Mortals question the gods’ worth, and rebellions rise in the south. As Horus struggles to unify Egypt, ominous signs point toward a deeper threat — a darkness rising not from the sky, but from below.

The gates of the Duat — the Egyptian underworld — are weakening. Souls are not reaching their final rest. Anubis has vanished. And rumors whisper that Apophis, the great serpent of chaos once banished by Ra, is reforming in secret, feeding on unrest, preparing for his rebirth.

Bek (Brenton Thwaites), now a legend among men, is drawn back into divine affairs when Zaya, once restored to life, begins receiving visions of fire and shadow. She believes the balance of Ma’at — the cosmic order — has been broken, and only a journey into the underworld can restore it.

Together, Horus, Bek, and Zaya must descend into the Duat, facing lost gods, cursed guardians, and trials of the soul. They are joined by Nephthys, goddess of mourning and forgotten twin to Isis, and Kebechet, the mysterious spirit of purification, who guards the truth of Anubis’s disappearance.

Meanwhile, on the surface, chaos spreads. Cults devoted to Apophis incite civil war, cities fall into darkness, and the stars vanish from the night sky. Hathor’s old powers stir restlessly, and Ra — now weakened in his eternal fight against chaos — can no longer hold the line alone.

As the realms of the living and dead begin to overlap, Horus must face the ultimate choice: preserve the divine order, or sacrifice his own immortality to protect the world of mortals.

The final battle unfolds across two planes — in the depths of the Duat, where Apophis returns as a colossal force of void and flame, and in the heart of Thebes, where gods, beasts, and mortals clash beneath a blood-red eclipse.

Gods of Egypt II raises the stakes, moving from vengeance to legacy. It asks what gods owe their people — and what power means in a world that questions faith. The film blends high fantasy with philosophical tension, all while delivering dazzling visual effects, gold-armored deities, and gravity-defying battles on celestial boats and beneath inverted pyramids.

By the end, the gods may survive. But the age of unquestioned worship is over.