{"id":47874,"date":"2021-12-04T13:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T10:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/?p=34104"},"modified":"2021-12-07T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:49:13","slug":"filming-begins-on-gerard-butler-starrer-kandahar-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/neom\/en\/latest\/filming-begins-on-gerard-butler-starrer-kandahar-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming Begins On Gerard Butler-Starrer \u2018Kandahar\u2019 In Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moviegoers around the world will finally get a taste of Saudi Arabia\u2019s diverse landscape thanks to Gerard Butler-starrer action flick \u201cKandahar\u201d that\u2019s begun filming in AlUla according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/Deadline.\">Deadline.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kandahar reunites Butler with his Greenland and Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh, and is produced by John Wick&#8217;s Thunder Road Films and Capstone.<\/p>\n<h2>Butler is joined by Bollywood actor Ali Fazal and TV star Navid Negahban in this film.<\/h2>\n<p>Butler plays Tom Harris, an undercover CIA agent trapped in Afghanistan. He and his Afghan interpreter must battle their way out of Kandahar to an extraction point, all while dodging the elite special troops entrusted with tracking them down.<\/p>\n<h2>Saudi Arabia MBC Studios along with Capstone has financed \u201cKandahar\u201d.<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Excited to announce that Kandahar starring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GerardButler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GerardButler<\/a> has started filming! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DcFVJrSHq5\">https:\/\/t.co\/DcFVJrSHq5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VVS Films (@vvs_films) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vvs_films\/status\/1466436098922590225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This isn\u2019t the first Hollywood film to be shot here though, filming was recently completed on a horror film called Cello that was written by none other than Turki Al Sheikh and Rupert Wyatt\u2019s Desert Warrior is currently under production here. 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