The film itself ran 2 hours and 40 minutes. It opened with a breathtaking aerial shot of a Bedouin caravan crossing the desert, then cut to a siege engine crashing against the walls of Kerak. The score, a thunderous mix of Anatolian drums and a full orchestra, never let up.
And for now, that legacy survives in the fragments of what might have been—a script gathering digital dust, a few concept art pieces floating on art-station, and this article, chronicling the film that 2017 promised but never delivered. saladin film 2017