Southeast Valley and Loop 202 star in the movie “The Kingdom”
Have you seen the movie ”The Kingdom”? This modern-day action thriller stars Oscar winners Jaime Fox and Chris Cooper along with former ”Alias” star Jennifer Garner as members of an elite FBI team investigating a terrorist cell in Saudia Arabia.
“The Kingdom” had scenes filmed just 8 minutes east of Onsite Insite’s billboards at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (formerly named Williams Gateway Airport) and ASU-Polytechic’s campus in southeast Mesa. An elaborate set was built and blown up for the movie.
A stretch of the Loop 202 Freeway was transformed into a Saudi Arabian superhighway, complete with terrorists and exploding cars.
The Universal Pictures production was filmed in the Southeast Valley during the spring and summer of 2006.
