Wadi Rum on Film: Lawrence of Arabia, The Martian, Rogue One, and the Most Filmed Desert on Earth
The Wadi Rum film route covers the Lawrence of Arabia 1962 film locations, The Martian Mars surface sequences, Rogue One Star Wars locations, and the complete Wadi Rum film history as the most filmed single desert landscape on earth.
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Lawrence of Arabia 1962: The Founding Film Location
The David Lean Lawrence of Arabia (1962, the most celebrated single desert film in cinema history with the Peter O'Toole performance and the most dramatically composed single desert cinematography by Freddie Young) used the Wadi Rum landscape as the primary location for the most visually iconic single desert film sequences including the most frequently reproduced single desert sunrise shot in cinema (the match cut from the blown-out matchstick to the Wadi Rum desert sunrise).
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The Martian 2015: The Mars Surface
The Ridley Scott The Martian (2015, the most successfully science-fiction-in-Wadi-Rum single film with the Matt Damon performance) used the Wadi Rum red desert surface as the most convincingly Mars-like single earth landscape for the most dramatically isolated single astronaut survival narrative in the most popularly successful single NASA-themed film. The Wadi Rum visitor who watches The Martian before arrival recognizes the most specific single landscape in the film.
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Rogue One 2016: The Star Wars Desert Planet
The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, the most recently internationally successful single Wadi Rum film location) used the Wadi Rum valley as the planet Jedha surface for the most action-intensive single desert battle sequence in the Disney-era Star Wars film franchise. The Rogue One Wadi Rum locations are the most immediately recognizable single Star Wars filming site for the visitor who knows the film.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Robot Desert
The Michael Bay Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) used the Wadi Rum landscape as the Egyptian desert setting for the most explosively spectacular single desert action sequence in the Transformers franchise. The Wadi Rum film location circuit map (available from the visitor centre) marks the most specific single filming positions for the most complete single Wadi Rum film tourism circuit.
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Dune and Indiana Jones: The Desert Film Tradition
The Wadi Rum film tradition continues with the most internationally recognized single film productions including the historical epic tradition (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989) and the most recent science fiction productions. The Bedouin film guide service (the most directly knowledgeable single Wadi Rum film location expertise) connects each landscape to the most specific single film production and identifies the most accurately positioned single filming viewpoint.
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Wadi Rum as Planet: The Universal Desert Landscape
The Wadi Rum universal landscape appeal (the most completely otherworldly single earth desert landscape with the vertical sandstone towers, the rust-red sand floor, and the most completely devoid-of-trees single skyline) makes it the most convincingly alien-planet single earth landscape for the science fiction film tradition and the most completely Lawrence-of-Arabia single historical film landscape for the most ambitious single desert epic cinema.