The adrenaline-fueled action franchise, John Wick, continues its legacy by featuring Wadi Rum as a shooting location for the highly anticipated fourth installment.
Other Star Wars productions came back to California's Tatooine. For Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, released in 1983, Lucas used the dirt Twenty Mule Team Road, about 7 miles south of Furnace Creek, as the path to Jabba the Hutt's Palace.
Wadi Rum is a protected area and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. Wadi Rum also has a long and notable history. There is evidence of settlements dating back to prehistoric times and Lawrence of Arabia, T.E.Lawrence, made his base in Wadi Rum in the Arab revolt of 1917-1918.
Over 20,000 petroglyphs and 20,000 inscriptions have been documented inside Wadi Rum, tracing human existence back some 12,000 years in this spot. Even today, some nomadic Bedouin make their home here, along one of the migratory courses modern humans took out of Africa, providing a living portrait of our human origins.