Red Sea Film Festival: ‘Desert Warrior’ Stars on Pioneering Hollywood-Style Production and Bringing Saudi Epic to Its Home Crowd

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 […]