‘Inside Sand,’ First Saudi Arabian Movie to Be Shot in Neom, Will get Trailer

Center East and North Africa-focused distributor Entrance Row Filmed Leisure and Saudi Arabia-based producer Al Sarid Movies have launched the trailer for the Saudi Arabian epic Inside Sand, the primary Saudi movie to be shot in Neom, the area of the nation set to be dwelling to a proposed $500 billion megacity.

The movie is about to be launched huge throughout Saudi cinemas on Nov. 9 by way of Entrance Row Arabia, the three way partnership between Entrance Row Filmed Leisure and main Saudi exhibitor Muvi Cinemas, and later across the Center East. Initially of 2023, Entrance Row Arabia scored a significant hit with the Saudi household comedy Sattar, which turned the largest native movie of all time.

Backed by the Saudi Movie Fee, Neom and Riyadh-based manufacturing firm AlSarid Movies, Inside Sand is written and directed by first-time filmmaker Moe Alatawi and produced by Reem Alatawi and Jana Dahlawi.

It options an all-Saudi solid led by Ra’ed Alshammari, Adwa Fahd, Muhand Alsaleh, Fatima Alsharif and Obaid Alwadaani, and follows a 23-year-old tobacco service provider who breaks away from his buying and selling convoy to rapidly get dwelling to his village, the place his spouse is about to have their first baby. Now touring alone, he’s ambushed by thieves who go away him for lifeless. His journey turns into a quest to outlive, with the added risk of a wolf dogging his footsteps. Stricken by his recollections, he struggles to carry on to his sanity on this huge, lonely, but additionally inspiring wilderness.

To make the shoot as genuine as potential, the manufacturing used an actual wolf on set. 

Inside Sand marks one other step for Neom as a part of its drive to change into a significant movie location and manufacturing hub. In 2021, Rupert Wyatt’s Desert Warrior, starring Antony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, Sharlto Copley and Ben Kingsley, turned the largest Hollywood characteristic to shoot there, whereas Con Air director Simon West lately introduced that he would movie his subsequent film, swords-and-sandals epic Antara, there.

See the Inside Sand trailer under.