Egypt as a Film Set

Post by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat May 23, 2009 2:46 pm

[face=Comic Sans MS]Many places in Egypt have been used as a Film location/set over the years. Some of our forum members have even played parts in some productions.

What films can you think of that have been filmed completely or partly in Egypt?

I'll start with the obvious [/face]- Death on the Nile

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:04 pm

Land of the Pharoahs

One of my all time fav movies.
I have it on DVD

Post by **Horus** » Sat May 23, 2009 4:54 pm

I believe that the latest Hollywood release entitled Transformers 2 'Revenge of the Fallen' was filmed around the pyramids and in Luxor

Post by **New Gal** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:00 pm

A lot of Indian films shoot a couple of songs abroad and last year, a film called 'Singh is King' shot two songs in Egypt.

They have turned out amazingly and I have added the links below, def worth seeing.

Post by **Lisak** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:18 pm

The Sphinx,

lots of it was shot around the Valley of the Nobels

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:56 pm

New Gal wrote:A lot of Indian films shoot a couple of songs abroad and last year, a film called 'Singh is King' shot two songs in Egypt.

They have turned out amazingly and I have added the links below, def worth seeing.

I LOVED Singh is King. I was on a BA flight to London in January and just chose a random Bollywood film to watch as I couldn't read the titles of the Bollywood films menu and chose that by chance. The sequence with the chicken near the beginning had me doubled over with laughter and I was so pleasantly surprised when they landed in Cairo! The entire film is on YouTube too or at least was a couple months ago.

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:57 pm

Lisak wrote:The Sphinx,

lots of it was shot around the Valley of the Nobels

Sphinx, not The Sphinx. That is my favorite actually.

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:05 pm

Check this one out for a reverse on Singh is King. This is one of the most popular Arabic music videos ever:

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Post by **PRchick** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:14 pm

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing that Glyph.

Post by **Goddess** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:16 pm

Crikey been years since I heard Nari Narein! Loved that song when it first came out!

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:07 pm

My husband just went to Radio Shack half an hour ago to buy new earphones for his MP3 player as his old pair had died and he plugged them in when he got home and guess what song came out?

Post by **Goddess** » Sat May 23, 2009 7:49 pm

Years ago you couldn't get away from that song - it used to be on tv at least three times a day! They used to show the outtakes from it too - when the girl fell down the hole on the bloopers program.

Post by **New Gal** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:08 pm

Glyphdoctor wrote:Check this one out for a reverse on Singh is King. This is one of the most popular Arabic music videos ever:

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Thanks for that Glyph, love the way Hindi and Arabic lyrics have been combined, thats fab!

Never seen that before!

Post by **JOJO** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:20 pm

I've never seen the film Sphinx, is it an old one?

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Sun May 24, 2009 5:54 am

1980. Probably the last time a foreign film was shot in its majority in Egypt, which is pretty sad.

Post by **Lisak** » Sun May 24, 2009 9:47 am

I've got the book somewhere, can't recall offhand who it is written by, is it Arthur Hailley?? I'll have a look later.

The lead woman in the film was Leslie Anne Down. Its a bit of a farce, but brilliant scenery where it was filmed. The book is quite good to.

Post by **Winged Isis** » Thu May 28, 2009 3:39 am

Not sure on these, but possibly ??????:
Cleopatra
The Ten Commandments (1923 and 1956)

Post by **Horus** » Thu May 28, 2009 12:29 pm

Cleopatra was partly filmed in Egypt

plus Spain and Italy
The 1923 version of the Ten Commandments was filmed in California but the 1956 version was filmed in California and Luxor Egypt

Post by **Wills** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 8:19 pm

Goddess wrote:Crikey been years since I heard Nari Narein! Loved that song when it first came out!

Love that song, have it in my ipod.