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WATCH: Dubai shines in trailer of Terrence Malick film

Dubai - Dubai shines and shimmers in the trailer of 'Voyage of Time', a Terrence Malick film

By Curated by Nilanjana Gupta

Published: Sun 21 Aug 2016, 10:27 AM

Last updated: Sun 21 Aug 2016, 1:11 PM

The official trailer Terence Malik's 'Voyage Of Time' is out and guess what featured in it. The ever glittering city of gold, Dubai.
Burj Khalifa goes from super-sized to souvenir-sized and the Shaikh Zayed roads look like a sparkling snake as the camera pans across the sky. The trailer overall looks every bit as stunning as fans of Malick would expect. It's a story just about everything -- it wants to show the birth of the universe, the arrival of man and what the future might hold, all in 90 minutes.
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The film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. However it still awaits a US release date. The film is being released in two formats: A 40-minute IMAX version narrated by Brad Pitt, whose Plan B helped produce the movie, and a feature-length version narrated by Cate Blanchett.
Take a look at a few other movies that had scenes from the UAE:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The film's director JJ Abrams said "action" (was filmed) somewhere in the desert of Abu Dhabi. Take #1 happened on May 16.

Star Trek

"We came searching for the future and we found it in Dubai," said producer Jeffrey Chernov, who first became familiar with the city while working on Ghost Protocol and scouted locations here for the upcoming shoot.
Producers revealed that Dubai would be featured as a "vertical" alien city.
Kung Fu Yoga

International action star @EyeOfJackieChan at #Dubai's Al Marmoom Camel Race track pic.twitter.com/CSqPiHHN43
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) October 8, 2015

Hollywood action star Jackie Chan filmed for the first time in the Middle East. He was spotted at camel race at Dubai's Al Marmoom Camel Race track dressed in the traditional UAE garb, the kandora.

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War Machine

Brad Pitt's satirical comedy War Machine wrapped a 22-day shoot in Abu Dhabi. Streets around the Abu Dhabi Media compound were transformed in order to create a fictional American embassy in Kabul. The production also filmed at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), the Abu Dhabi New York Film Academy and in remote areas of the Abu Dhabi desert.