 An entire makeshift village was created in the middle of the desert  about 600 miles from Bengazi to house the production, which numbered  approximately 500 people, throughout the shoot. All the materials  for the creation of this village were shipped out from England. They  had particular problems with catering as all the food had to be  bussed in, meat being particularly problematic as in this desert  area of Libya cold storage was virtually unheard of.