DUNE, STAR WARS, and Why Hollywood Loves Making Movies in Jordan

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Dune, John Wick, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aladdin, Moon Knight, Lawrence of Arabia, Transformers and countless more movies, TV shows, documentaries and adverts have all been filmed in Jordan. It attracts directors from Michael Bay to Denis Villeneuve, Ridley Scott to Brian de Palma, David Lean to Steven Spielberg. Why? What is it about this small desert country that attracts so many major film productions, and what is it that keep Hollywood coming back again and again? Travel there with me to find out.
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Behind the scenes
Making of Dune | Arrakis | Filmed in Jordan - • Making of Dune | Arrak...
Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker - Filming experience - • Star Wars IX: The Rise...
Filming The Martian in Jordan - • Filming The Martian in...
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@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Three things! One - Sorry I didn't clean the lint off my hoodie at 7:06. I'll regret it forever. Two - This is not sponsored or endorsed in any way by the Jordanian Film Commission or any other organisation. They don't even know I exist. This was 100% self-initiated and self-funded. I was travelling to Jordan anyway so filmed this on the side because I'm a nerd who likes talking about tax subsidies while on holiday. Three - This video focuses on English-language productions because I have a mostly English-speaking audience. But most things filmed in Jordan are Arabic-language programmes from around the region, and Indian productions (watch the Patrick Willems video to find out why 'Bollywood' is not the right term). Oh, you're still reading! Well if you liked this video, you might enjoy me travelling to the filming location for Edoras in New Zealand and sharing some behind the scenes stories of the LOTR production - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5ldereT377JdaM.html

@zaidlacksalastname4905 8 ай бұрын

If you're still in Jordan and really like it, we could just swap yk. I'll take your plane ticket and live in hobbiton, and you'll just live here among the falafel and shawarma.

@zaidlacksalastname4905 8 ай бұрын

Jordanian here. I'm sorry to say that you're completely wrong. People shoot in Jordan to get an excuse to eat shawerma. That's the only reason. Can't blame them, it's great.

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

You're not wrong!

@robertalaverdov8147 8 ай бұрын

Unique location whilst having decent infrastructure, safe political and businesses climate. Along with limited police corruption, at least in regards to western firms. Lastly local government support that cuts through usual red tape. Jordan is a good example of "if you build it they will come".

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

They've had so much success from building the industry, and it shows. Their industry it putting out some top-notch productions.

@GuineaPigEveryday 3 ай бұрын

Honestly its really nice to hear a success story like this, Jordan has remained stable without resorting to autocracy, corruption and a whole host of problems that its neighbours face, not their fault either entirely but still. But Jordan is rewarded for that hard work and their tourism industry is so well-known and well-established and continuous so it pays off dividends, more movies shoot there, even more people come there. I think Morocco hopes to regain a part of this market that they used to be pretty dominant in, especially in their cooperation with Ridley Scott

@LucasBenderChannel 8 ай бұрын

That fact about Indy 3 jumping from Spain to Jordan to TEXAS is amazing and I'll try to keep that in mind, the next time I watch the movie. Great video! :)

@smergthedargon8974 3 ай бұрын

It's always nice to hear of, in a region known for being perpetually on fire, a country within doing well.

@LethalKunai 8 ай бұрын

Ive been to most places you filmed here, it really is a beautiful dessert. Amazing how a color gradient can make it look like a totally different place. Great video, thanks for posting!

@watch-Dominion-2018 8 ай бұрын

dessert? chocolate?

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Even without colour grading or effects, the changing of the light throughout the day makes everywhere look so different and constantly changing. It's a spectacular part of the world.

@GeezNutz 8 ай бұрын

Incredibly interesting video on the film industry. Also, I've been watching you for 2 years now and you still don't get enough views.

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching for so long, glad you're enjoying the videos. It's funny - they either do very well (over 100,000 views in a week sort of thing) or absolutely tank like this one. There's no middle ground. But that's KZfaq - thankfully this is a hobby for me not a full time job, but I sympathise with people whose livelihoods depend on such a fickle algorithm. Thanks again for watching :)

@LucasBenderChannel 8 ай бұрын

Those on-location shots of yourself in Jordan are beautiful and make me very jealous. I need to see Petra at some point. 🤩

@samazwe 8 ай бұрын

I love these on location shoots! As someone else pointed out, did you get the rebate😂?

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

I wish!

@GuineaPigEveryday 3 ай бұрын

I’m gonna be honest, compared to other frequent film locations, Jordan rlly never gets old for me, its damn beautiful, and also clearly has a big enough desert because they don’t use the same exact sites from Lawrence of Arabia that people would recognise. There’s some locations that get over-used a lot and are very noticeable, I think the TMZ area around LA is obvious in any TV show or cheap film since Star Trek but also recently Matera is being used to stand in for middle eastern jerusalem which is honestly ridiculous, and Bond films have gotten very frustratingly dull with setting every film somewhere around Italy rather than the globe-trotting adventure it used to be. Also the fact that Budapest has now officially portrayed every city in the world thanks to Hollywood, especially any historical film

@blainetoms 8 ай бұрын

so did you get your 30% back for this video? that's the real question

@zgdupvpmobile364 8 ай бұрын

ey I wanted to write this. Good Job:)

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Ha, I wish! As noted in the pinned comment, this was 100% independent and self-funded. No rebate for me (to be fair, it's not like I hired a Jordanian film crew either, so fair enough I don't get one!)

@idomaghic 3 ай бұрын

I've basically only been in "one" desert; Jordan (Petra & Wadi Rum). When I was watching JW4 recently I thought I recognized the location, but dismissed it as I've got such a limited experience of deserts; happy to see I wasn't actually wrong, and can somewhat trust that if I think it's Jordan, chances are high it actually is.

@domstafford1894 8 ай бұрын

To be picky,at 7:00 that looks like a Greek theater rather than an Amphitheater (theaters are semicircles so everyone can see and hear the actors, ampitheaters are circles or ovals so the lions don't get out). But nice video, Jordan looks lovely!

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! It is Roman, not Greek, but yes it's a theatre not an amphitheatre, my bad. Thanks for watching.

@samuelleask1132 8 ай бұрын

Gorgeous place

@cheekster777 8 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend.

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Thank you

@relwalretep 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, another gorgeous non-pretentious doco. For what it's worth, my favourite Morrocan* film is Life Of Brian. Absolutely fabulous cinematic work for misplaced location work.

@1HankDaTank1 8 ай бұрын

awesome vid bro

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Cheers, I had fun making it.

@GuineaPigEveryday 3 ай бұрын

it’s interesting to see how the centre for Desert-based films has changed from Morocco, which did show up in a lot of films as well, specifically historical epics like Kingdom of Heaven, Gladiator, Alexander, The Man Who Would Be King (but also Afghanistan, e.g. The Living Daylights, interestingly enough Israel was also used a lot to stand in for Afghanistan - Rambo III, The Beast of War, that is b4 modern hollywood decided to use new mexico as a stand-in). That and Almeria, the Spanish desert used in Last Crusade and Lawrence of Arabia standing in for any Middle Eastern place, and also Westerns lol. Also have to mention Libya, which has famously been off-limits for decades now, was actually a film production location for two major films, The Message and Lion of the Deserts, which supported all infrastructural needs for massive shoots, but thats the one exception, cuz it was funded by Gaddafi himself in a sort of propaganda-esque effort. Also wish that Namibia was being used more, despite its problems it looks amazing, and Furiosa looks far worse off filming in Australia. I’d hope that the new Hannibal movie actually shoots on location, the government even made a statement about that scorning the casting decision by Antoine Fuqua. It’s good to have healthy competition for film productions, and the cost-benefit tax-breaks stimulates movie productions to actual shoot on location so thats good.

@goettinger1905 8 ай бұрын

Your videos on film locations are fantastic. Hope to see more of them, I guess NZ should have quite a few more, that tell a special story. On a sidenote: Would love to see a collaboration between you and "so uncivilized".

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I have a few more planned - they're so fun to make!

@moathdw910 Ай бұрын

Interesting!

@jongrover8763 8 ай бұрын

And they have lots of sun so the shoots don't get rained out.

@GuineaPigEveryday 3 ай бұрын

Reminds you why filming movies in real life instead of a green screen is not only creatively better and not soulless, but it also provides JOBS, and gives people a living wage, it promotes tourism abroad. Honestly I’m sick of the volume already, its numbingly boring, movies shot on location, even if mixed with CGI, fire up the imagination and wonder and curiosity, it engages us with the real world. I love that Dune ensured this real sense of place by putting actors in a desert so you can see all the subtle details of desert-life. I’d just prefer to see the world on my screen, and be excited by possibly visiting those places, than be dulled into some crappy looking volume, cgi will get better but its not gonna replace the fact that some of us might want to see an interesting location we could actually visit, or engage with real people and places rather than pixels.

@larsnyman2455 8 ай бұрын

Heyyyy I'm watching Dune tonight

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

Let the spice flow!

@punchforpound2808 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if they should try some different deserts in the next movies. Jordan's desert doesn't have the most color, and the color grading on Dune looks unnatural. John Wick tried it give it more color in color grading but that looks unnatural too. It did look great in many Lawrence scenes though. Maybe it's just how u shoot it. Speaking of, has Hollywood ever filmed in Salar de Uyuni?

@punchforpound2808 8 ай бұрын

And maybe Im just biased to the more yellow Sahara rolling sands.

@IvanKasic 8 ай бұрын

John Wick is trying to be expressive with its imagery and colours, and Dune is intentionally portraying the desert as harsh and lifeless.

@punchforpound2808 8 ай бұрын

@@IvanKasic JW could be just a expressive but more natural if the desert they filmed looked more naturally like what they're going for. I know what Dune is going for but u can do that without sacrificing color and natural look.

@IvanKasic 8 ай бұрын

@@punchforpound2808 it... does look natural. It's matching the colour and tone of Abu Dhabi. Different story if you'd prefer something more expressionistic, but then you sacrifice the natural.

@PentexProductions 8 ай бұрын

I think the colour grading works for John Wick's aesthetic, but I agree it looks best in Lawrence. David Lean did such a great job at capturing the sheer scale of the place, and I think it's because of those big wide shots that have the people as tiny specks in front of towering cliffs.