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Filming a movie that spans a large number of different countries may appear to become a huge logistical challenge, especially when those countries cover war-torn or inhospitable areas such as Afghanistan and the Middle East. The producers of international thriller Lord Of War solved this problem in a single simple move. They filmed on location in South Africa.

This vast and beautiful country has such a huge variety of terrains, which range from desert to lush forest, mountain, ocean, rolling hills, expansive plains and so forth, that it can double as almost any other country if you discover just the right spot. For Lord of War the film production managed to re create scenes from Sierra Leone, Bolivia and Afghanistan to name but a few, because the backdrop towards the thrilling chase of Interpol agents tracking arms dealer Nicholas cage around the globe.

The advantages of using film locations in South Africa to be used as the actual places, rather than travelling to every single actual country featured within the movie, are plenty of. By continuing to keep the location filming within one geographical area, costs are kept all the way down, exactly the same crew can be used for continuity, logistics are much simpler and far some time and travel is saved. Above all the film production advantages of the well-established infrastructure already existing here, instead of struggling in countries that have little or no established support for that movie industry.

Because Nigeria includes a long history as a favoured location for film and commercial production, it offers excellent facilities, whether it be the experienced local crew available, the post-production facilities, the neighborhood production companies facilitating every aspect, to world-class hotels and transport to keep A-list actors happy!

South Africa has doubled as many other countries through the years: in Oscar-nominated Blood Diamond, the 2006 thriller starring Leonardo diCaprio, South African locations doubled for the civil war torn landscapes of Sierra Leone. Hotel Rwanda was shot in Gauteng and Johannesburg in 2004 instead of enduring the rigors of filming in the country featured.

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A very different side of the nation is used in children's movie Racing Stripes, where the green hills and fields around Pietermaritzburg set happens for a charming tale in regards to a zebra who thinks he's a racehorse, and double as the type of generic rich horse-racing countryside found in several areas of the planet. In Dredd, recently filmed in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa's main cities show their gritty side by waiting in for that futuristic Mega-City Among the fantasy comic strip.

The recent major movies filmed on location in Nigeria show that it's now really into the spotlight as far as big production goes, whether doubling for somewhere else or featuring as itself, in all its glorious scenery and variety.

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