Ridley Scott’s latest film, Exodus: Gods and Kings, is being attacked for having an all-white cast. Some believe that this is way out of bounds since the film is largely set in Egypt.

Exodus, which stars Christian Bale as Moses, was directed by Ridley Scott and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Ridley Scott told Variety that his cast is white for a simple reason: money.

“I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott explained. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”

As Variety points out about the very white casting, “the same could be said of The Passion of the Christ, Noah, The Ten Commandments and virtually any other big-budget Bible movies.”

But Rupert Murdoch, who owns 20th Century Fox, was not going to let this one go by quietly. He had been seeing comments on Twitter about the all-white cast.

What makes Ridley Scott's Exodus wrong is the fact that they rather make money by having an White cast than making the movie truly accurate

— SpydaMan (@ROshirtRNoShirt) December 1, 2014

I Will Not Be Seeing #Exodus. Moses Wasn't White, Neither Were The Egyptians. Why Is The Whole Cast Caucasian? No Thanks.

— Miss Universe (@JerryTooNuff) November 30, 2014

So Murdoch took to Twitter to defend his investment.

Moses film attacked on Twitter for all white cast. Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) November 29, 2014

As expected, his odd defense did not sit well.

@DavidWashingto2 @rupertmurdoch His definition of 'white' is owning slaves

— Eddie Major (@eddiemajor) November 29, 2014

@TheReelAnderson @rupertmurdoch No, but he knows a lot of those conservatives that follow him are. He plays to them.

— Kevin Young (@Kevin_D_Young) November 29, 2014

So Murdoch hit back again.

Everybody-attacks last tweet. Of course Egyptians are Middle Eastern, but far from black. They treated blacks as slaves.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) November 29, 2014

Okay, there are many shades of color. Nothing racist about that, so calm down!

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) November 29, 2014

But his detractors got the last laugh.

@Aaron_Morgan I, for one, believe that @rupertmurdoch is old enough to have known ancient Egyptians. We should just take his word for it.

— RyanPatrickMcGuffey (@ryanpmcguffey) November 29, 2014