One of the scenes in the movie was shot at the exactly same spot where George Lucas himself filmed several scenes for his Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) saga. It was the so-called "Camel Head Rock" in the Sahara Desert in Tunisia. The area was the set for the famous pod-race scenes and the location where Darth Maul launched the hunt for the Naboo Royal Starship and fought Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Locations nearby were also used for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and The English Patient (1996).