6/24/2023 0 Comments Born to be a king![]() Sayers was best known for her mystery novels featuring aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers' classic play cycle based on the life and times of Jesusĭorothy L. Gomez is set to produce another Saudi movie - “Champions” - in January, about people with special needs in a help center in Jeddah.Dorothy L. The movie has been filmed in English but it is also dubbed in Arabic. The filmmakers are currently negotiating with Netflix, hoping that they will take the film for their platform. As for King Abdulaziz, we found a Saudi actor already working in Hollywood.” The protagonist of the film is a boy from Jeddah. “We did a casting in the Kingdom and 200 people came for the session. The actor playing King Abdulaziz is a Saudi working in Hollywood. The film consisted of 200 crew members, half of which were Saudi. The filming in Riyadh took place in Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahad’s farm in Diriyah, “it’s like a reproduction of Saudi Arabia 100 years ago.” ![]() If you ask the cast and crew what they liked the most about Saudi Arabia, they will tell you the people.” Gomez said that the crew “really fell in love with the country. It was spectacular and everyone was happy.”įilming in Riyadh started in autumn as they had to wait for the heat to subside.įor most of the crew, it was their first time in the Kingdom. The cast and crew worked for seven weeks nonstop. The movie was shot in London and Riyadh, with 75 percent of the movie filmed in London. “He’s an expert on the Middle East and Saudi Arabia in particular.” Gomez credited Russian author Alexei Vassilev’s book “The History of Saudi Arabia,” which provided useful information on the history. He also helped me choose actors for the different parts.” ![]() “He supervised everyone on the seven or eight drafts of the scripts that were first produced. The film’s producer, Andre Vicente Gomez, believes the movie “Born a King” will break stereotypes about Saudi Arabia. “Really, the person who has more input, more emphasis and guidance has been Prince Turki. It was no easy task to ensure the accuracy of all the details, but with extensive research and the help of Prince Turki, they were able to make it as accurate as possible. “I started writing the script and went to a Saudi novelist, Badr Al-Samary, who helped me and guided me on the first steps on the story.” He liked what he read, but he told the producer that he would need the approval of the rest of the family, especially King Salman, the brother of King Faisal.Ī month later, Prince Turki met Gomez in Paris and informed him that the family approved of the project and he had the green light to go ahead. Prince Turki read the script while meeting with Gomez. Gomez wrote 12 pages of the script before contacting the King Faisal Foundation. He met Prince Turki and called himself “lucky” with how quick the events took place. The story of a young boy coming of age, going to the city and encountering this new world.” “I thought it would make a great movie, but not a biography of King Faisal - just the London trip. He then came across the story of King Faisal. He dove deep into Saudi history, reading up on all the books he could get his hands on. Two years later, he made a musical in Spain titled “The Last Horseman,” which was inspired by a Saudi story. ![]() That project was spiked, but his interest in Saudi Arabia’s history was only starting. Things took a different turn as Saudi television and the Ministry of Culture told him that producing a film about spirits might be controversial, “because in the Quran there are some jins that are good and others that are not so good.” “My relationship with Saudi Arabia is long, I came here in 2010, looking for locations for an animated film about spirits (jins),” he said. This is not Gomez’s first attempt at creating a film in the Kingdom. “We don’t know yet what the reaction will be, but I think this movie will help the opening of the Kingdom to the world because it shows a Saudi Arabia they don’t know.” If the film will surprise the Saudis, then imagine the European or American reactions,” he told Arab News. “There are a lot of stereotypes about the country. The film’s producer, Andre Vicente Gomez, believes the movie will break stereotypes about Saudi Arabia. The movie tells the story of a young King Faisal Al-Saud during his trip to the UK on a diplomatic mission aged just 13. 26, “Born a King” will premiere in theaters across the Middle East and North Africa. ![]()
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