Riyadh, Sept. 12 -- Saudi Arabia's first Hollywood-style tentpole movie, 'Desert Warrior', starring Anthony Mackie, is finally set to bow at the 21st Zurich Film Festival following a long gestation, reported Variety.

The period action epic with a hefty 150 million USD budget is helmed by British director Rupert Wyatt and features a top-notch international cast led by 'Captain America' star Mackie, Ben Kingsley and Aiysha Hart.

According to Variety, the movie was shot in 2021 in a scenic desert area around the site of the futuristic city of NEOM.

"Desert Warrior", which is set in pre-Islamic 7th-century Arabia when Saudi was made up of rival, feuding tribes forever at each other's throats, has since been caught in a seemingly endless te...