We created the Middle East, 3000 B.C. – all in Los Angeles,” says cinematographer John R. Leonetti enthusiastically. It was the challenge of making this possible that convinced Leonetti to leave the highly successful television series Providence, to shoot a story for his director Chuck Russell (The Mask). The picture is set 5000 years ago in the city of Gomorrah, where an evil man named Memnon (Steven Brand) is determined to overcome all the nomadic desert tribes. To survive, the few remaining tribes who are natural enemies, must unite. Knowing that Memnon relies on the visions of a sorcerer, they hire a skilled assassin named Mathayus (The Rock) to eliminate the visionary.