ASTONISHING SETS
More than 200 world-renowned films and television series have been shot at Atlas Studios, including “Gladiator”, “Ben Hur”, “Kingdom of Heaven”, “The Mummy”, “The Passion of Christ,” and more recently, the successful series “Game of Thrones”.
Think of any Biblical or historical epic you’ve ever seen, and you will always see in the background a landscape of red-gold rocks, brick buildings and thatch roofs.
From “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Noah” and “The Passion of Christ” to “Ben Hur,” “Gladiator” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” the countryside is the same. There’s a reason for that: They were all filmed near Ouarzazate, a town in southwestern Morocco, known as the “Gateway to the Desert.”
