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Now managed by the Malta Film Commission, Ricasoli also appears as the ‘Red Keep’ in TV’s A Game of Thrones.įinally trundled into heart of Troy, the wooden horse (actually steel and fibreglass), standing 38 feet high, was made at Shepperton and had to be shipped out to Malta in sections. It’s where the vast Colosseum set for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator had stood, and stands opposite Fort St Elmo, which had been the ‘Turkish’ prison location for Midnight Express).

The streets and the grand square of Troy were built on a ten-acre site within the 17th Century military compound, Fort Ricasoli, on the south entrance to the Grand Harbour at Valletta on Malta. Some interior sets, including the Palace of Troy, were filmed on sets built at Shepperton Studios in the UK, but most of the production was shot on Malta and at the southern tip of Baja California, the long, skinny finger of Mexico dangling down the west coast from the Californian border. But after all, it’s a legend not a history lesson. Troy was filmed on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean and in Mexico, after a terrorist bomb attack in Casablanca deterred the production company from the first choice, which had been Morocco.īrad Pitt seemed natural casting as Achilles, poster boy for the Greeks, in Wolfgang Petersen’s good, old fashioned epic, which takes a few liberties with the legend – compressing the ten-year siege of Troy into a fortnight, coyly demoting Patroclus ( Garrett Hedlund) from Achilles’ lover to his cousin, and prematurely bumping off Agamemnon ( Brian Cox). Troy location: the shore of Troy: Ghajn Tuffieha Beach, Malta | Photograph: Wikimedia / Gokoenig