 Before the shoots even begun, a set was being built in Turkey and it  was almost done. One day when the director of the movie was touring  around Istanbul, a bombing event took place. Therefore the shots  that included the cast was never shot in Istanbul, according to the  director, due to security reasons. Not a single cast member actually  went to Istanbul. The shots of Robert Carlyle (I) (qv) and his men  getting off the boat on the jetty at Electras palace were shot in  the tank at Pinewood against a blue/green screen.