It is a tale nearly as old as time — but enough about the creative differences that have conspired to keep this ambitious Middle Eastern Western away from movie screens since it went into production ...

Like Memento, The Escapist, screening as part of the University of Colorado’s International Film Series, freshens what could have been a genre exercise by fiddling about with the overall structure. At ...

The stillness of Arabia’s arid, inhospitable landscapes is disrupted when they become a battlefield for human conflict in “Desert Warrior,” the long-developing Saudi epic inspired by real ancient ...

Saudi Arabia's first Hollywood-style tentpole movie "Desert Warrior" is finally set to bow, following a long gestation, with a Zurich Film Festival world premiere on Sept. 28. The period action epic ...

Rupert Wyatt’s “The Gambler” is something of an anomaly. He insists that it is not a remake of the 1974 Karel Reisz drama of the same name, though the two share similar plot points. Rather, the ...

In September 2021, British director Rupert Wyatt (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”) started principal photography in the area around Saudi Arabia’s planned futuristic city of Neom on $150 million ...

Update: It looks like this won’t work out either. According to Deadline, Wyatt is off the project due to schedules not matching. Expect a new director to be announced soon and see the original story ...

Anthony Mackie’s Desert Warrior is finally set to premiere at the Zurich Film Festival after years of delays. The Hollywood-style action epic – filmed in Saudi Arabia in 2021 – stars the actor ...