In 2021, Sharlto Copley (“District 9,” “The Witcher”) and Aiysha Hart (“Mogul Mowgli,” “Colette”) spent five months in a scenic desert area near the site of the futuristic city of NEOM to shoot Saudi Arabia’s first Hollywood-style tentpole movie, “Desert Warrior.”
Almost five years later it is now finally launching in the Middle East from the Red Sea Film Festival.
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The big-budget epic, directed by British filmmaker Rupert Wyatt (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”), is set in 7th-century Arabia and revolves around a princess (Hart) who refuses to serve as concubine to the ruthless emperor Kisra, played by Ben Kingsley,
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