“Vast, echoing and God-like.” That is how T.E. Lawrence, the British archaeologist and army officer who inspired the 1962 film “Lawrence of Arabia,” described Wadi Rum.

B ack in 2014, we all got to see what it would look like if Matt Damon became stranded on a distant planet when the "Bourne Identity" star had a cameo in Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." Damon ...

Because the sand is red and almost surreal, Wadi Rum is cast regularly as the red planet. Mission to Mars , Red Planet , The Last Days on Mars and The Martian were all filmed here.

How ‘The Martian’s’ Ridley Scott Replicated Mars in the Middle East. The director used the vast landscape of the Wadi Rum desert in Jordan (and the world's largest soundstage in Budapest) to ...

"Vast, echoing and God-like." That is how T.E. Lawrence, the British archaeologist and army officer who inspired the 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia," described Wadi Rum.