Oliver Stone he is preparing to shoot in the deserts of Morocco, in a film that will deal with terrorism in the Sahel region, as the Moroccan publication Maroc Hebdo has assured. According to this publication, the film will be titled "Katiba" (phalanx or command) and will be inspired by the novel of the same title as the novel by Frenchman Jean Christophe Rufin, from 2010, where he narrates the experience of four young people belonging to Al Qaeda in the Maghreb.
The information has not been confirmed from the Moroccan Film Center, where foreign productions always pass, but Nuredin Sail, its director, has not ruled out that this information may be true.
Always with the information provided by this weekly, Stone would have emphasized that the natural and undisturbed spaces that are very easily found in Morocco will suit him and that they will be great to place the action of a film that requires filming in desert spaces.
Lately Morocco is becoming a kind of film Mecca in North Africa since according to the figures that the CCM manages, during 2012 Morocco granted 25 filming permits for foreign feature films, and the figures continue to rise.
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Source - Canary 7