The Kingdom (2007)

Director:

Peter Berg

Writer (WGA):

Matthew Michael Carnahan (written by)

Release Date:

28 September 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Trust No One

Plot:

A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Plot Keywords:

Flack Vest | Praying | Shot In The Head | Urban Combat | Shootout

Awards:

2 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Sun. July 27	10:15 PM	HBO
Fri. Aug. 1	12:05 AM	HBO
Wed. Aug. 6	11:00 PM	HBO

Cast

Jamie Foxx	...	Ronald Fleury
Chris Cooper	...	Grant Sykes
Jennifer Garner	...	Janet Mayes
Jason Bateman	...	Adam Leavitt
Ashraf Barhom	...	Colonel Faris Al Ghazi
Ali Suliman	...	Sergeant Haytham
Jeremy Piven	...	Damon Schmidt
Richard Jenkins	...	Robert Grace
Tim McGraw	...	Aaron Jackson
Kyle Chandler	...	Francis Manner
Frances Fisher	...	Elaine Flowers
Danny Huston	...	Gideon Young
Kelly AuCoin	...	Ellis Leach
Anna Deavere Smith	...	Maricella Canavesio
Minka Kelly	...	Miss Ross
Amy Hunter	...	Lyla Fleury
Tj Burnett	...	Kevin Fleury (as T.J. Burnett)
Omar Berdouni	...	Prince Ahmed Bin Khaled
Raad Rawi	...	Prince Thamer
Mahmoud Said	...	General Al Abdulmalik
Hezi Saddik	...	Abu Hamza
Uri Gavriel	...	Izz Al Din
Nick Faltas	...	Haytham's Father
Ahmed B. Badran	...	35-Year-Old Son (as Ahmed Badran)
Elie Khoury	...	15-Year-Old Grandson (as Elie Georges El-Khoury)
Tom Bresnahan	...	Rex Burr
Yasmine Hanani	...	Aunt
Trevor St. John	...	Earl Ripon
Ashley Scott	...	Janine Ripon
Sarah Hunley	...	Maddy Ripon
Brody M. Tardy	...	Teddy Manner (as Brody Tardy)
Hope Fogle	...	Mick
Sidney Ortiz	...	LuLu
Noah Pittenger	...	Classmate
Damian Foster	...	Haytham Driver
Kevin Brief	...	Range Rover Driver
Brian Mahoney	...	Pitcher
Martin Foxwell	...	Man at Game
Kavita Parbhakar	...	Mom at Game
Hrach Titizian	...	Suicide Bomber
Munthir Salih	...	Suicide Bomber
Merik Tadros	...	Reporter
Sean Donnellan	...	Reporter
Richard Klein	...	FBI Agent
John Paul Castorena	...	FBI Agent
Antonio Evans	...	FBI Agent
Maryellen Aviano	...	FBI Agent
Markus Flanagan	...	FBI Agent
Brian Gehl	...	Stud in Bar
Ali Abboud	...	Irate Guard
David Brown	...	Man at Hotel
Firas Salloum	...	Airport SANG Officer
Anthony Batarse	...	Inner-Circle
Nabeel Kort	...	Police Officer
Shant Demirjian	...	Police Officer
Assad Mohamed	...	Bombsite Investigator
Yaser Alamoodi	...	Bombsite Worker
Haider Almosawi	...	Bombsite Worker
Saleem Hassan Erakat	...	Bombsite Worker
Jasim Tahir	...	Tank Gunner
Maitham Al-Zubfidy	...	Main Gate Guard
Alawi Al-Bidery	...	Machine Gunner
Albara Awad	...	Humvee Gunner
Gino Salvano	...	Special Forces Officer
Waleed Alsadi	...	Guard at Cafe
Mohammed Mohammed	...	Internet Teenager
Fouad Al-Hamedany	...	Internet Teenager
Ahmed Al-Ibrahim	...	Game Player
Yunus Hassan	...	Game Player
Charbel Touma	...	Game Player
Anthony Salibi	...	Game Player
Bassam O. Saeed	...	Al Ghazi Aid
Hasan Chaudhry	...	Al Ghazi Runner
Nick Hermz	...	Passport Officer
Eyad Elbitar	...	Kidnapper
Sala Baker	...	Kidnapper
Kasem Al-Tamimi	...	Elderly Man
Damian Hajjar	...	Suweidi Resident
Mario Mercado II	...	Suweidi Resident
Gaith Al-Jaberi	...	Al Ghazi's Son
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Andrew Astor	...	On Big Wheel (uncredited)
Peter Berg	...	FBI Agent (uncredited)
Osama Bin Laden	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Byron Browne	...	Softball player (uncredited)
Merek Browne	...	Kid at softball game (uncredited)
George Bush	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Taylor Hogue	...	Softball Player (uncredited)
Saddam Hussein	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marcus Jordan	...	Al-Ghazi Security (uncredited)
Aaron Michael Lacey	...	Secret Service Agent (uncredited)
Brian Mulligan	...	Mabahith (uncredited)
Colin Powell	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Peter Berg

Writing credits (WGA)
Matthew Michael Carnahan		(written by)

Produced by
Sarah Aubrey	....	executive producer
John Cameron	....	executive producer
K.C. Hodenfield	....	co-producer
Ryan Kavanaugh	....	executive producer
Michael Mann	....	producer
Mary Parent	....	executive producer
Steven P. Saeta	....	executive producer (as Steven Saeta)
Tim Smythe	....	producer: Abu Dhabi
Scott Stuber	....	producer
Maria Williams	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Danny Elfman

Cinematography by
Mauro Fiore		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Colby Parker Jr.
Kevin Stitt

Casting by
Amanda Mackey Johnson		(as Amanda Mackey)
Cathy Sandrich		(as Cathy Sandrich Gelfond)

Production Design by
Tom Duffield

Art Direction by
A. Todd Holland
Patrick M. Sullivan Jr.		(supervising art director)

Set Decoration by
Ronald R. Reiss		(as Ron Reiss)

Costume Design by
Susan Matheson

Makeup Department
Deborah La Mia Denaver	....	makeup artist: Ms. Garner (as Deborah LaMia Denaver)
Deidra Dixon	....	hair stylist: Mr. Foxx (as Diedra Dixon)
Melissa Forney	....	key hair stylist
Michael Germain	....	makeup artist
LaLette Littlejohn	....	makeup artist: Mr. Foxx
Barbara Lorenz	....	hair stylist: Ms. Garner
Bill Myer	....	makeup department head
Roxie Norman	....	hair department head (as Roxie Hodenfield)
Jennifer Saeta	....	assistant makeup department head (as Jennifer Suzanne Saeta)
Claudia Breckenridge	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
Andy Clement	....	special prosthetics (uncredited)
Kim Collea	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
Dean Jones	....	lab makeup effects (uncredited)
Dana Vargas	....	hair stylist (uncredited)
Clint Zoccoli	....	fabricator (uncredited)

Production Management
Stephanie Antosca	....	production supervisor: Washington DC
Leigh Clarke	....	production manager: Abu Dhabi
Lyall Gardiner	....	unit manager
Steven P. Saeta	....	unit production manager
Robert West	....	production supervisor
Sean T. Stratton	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Steve Battaglia	....	first assistant director: second unit
Chris Castaldi	....	second second assistant director
Christian Clarke	....	second assistant director: second unit
K.C. Hodenfield	....	first assistant director
David Murphy	....	third assistant director: Abu Dhabi
Phil Neilson	....	second unit director
Jeff Okabayashi	....	second assistant director
Paul F. Bernard	....	first assistant director: second unit (uncredited)
Eugene Davis	....	second second assistant director: additional photography (uncredited)

Art Department
Jeff Brown	....	greens coordinator
Gary Clark	....	head paint foreman
Michael Diersing	....	construction coordinator
Vicki Dittemore	....	set dresser
David Fencl	....	property master: second unit
Douglas Fox	....	property master
Lindsay Good	....	art department coordinator
Lindsay Good	....	art department researcher
Robert Hale	....	painter gang boss
Aaron Haye	....	digital set designer
China Iwata	....	assistant property master
Michael Anthony Jackson	....	storyboard artist
Kim Lincoln	....	graphic designer
Xavier Luevano	....	set construction laborer
Harry Lu	....	property master: second unit
Bruce L. Luizzi	....	leadman
Linda Luizzi	....	set decoration buyer
Scott Lukowski	....	concept illustrator
William S. Maxwell III	....	set dresser
Bryan McBrien	....	greens foreman
Fred O'Connor	....	propmaker
John M. Oswald	....	on-set dresser
Nick Papac	....	assistant property master
Amandah Peting	....	art department assistant
Bruce Richter	....	carpenter
Michael Ruby	....	supervising signwriter
Tanja Schaffenrath	....	art buyer: Abu Dhabi Unit
Gregg Singer	....	on-set dresser
Sarah Sprawls	....	set decoration buyer
Gerald Sullivan	....	assistant art director
Michael P. Sweeney	....	assistant property master
Jana Treadwell	....	set dresser
Karen Wakefield	....	art director: Abu Dhabi
Sandra J. White	....	construction accountant

Sound Department
Bill Banyai	....	additional sound re-recordist
Bill Benwai	....	additional sound re-recordist
Willie D. Burton	....	sound mixer
Yann Delpuech	....	sound designer
Dick Hansen	....	b unit mixer
Shaughnessy Hare	....	sound effects designer (as Shaughnessy Pancho Hare)
Shaughnessy Hare	....	sound effects editor
Eric Harwood	....	sound re-recordist
Darren King	....	supervising sound editor
Gregory King	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gregory King	....	supervising sound editor
E. Niles Klein	....	sound editorial technical consultant
Rick Kline	....	sound re-recording mixer
Michael B. Koff	....	sound mixer: second unit, Phoenix
Goro Koyama	....	foley artist
Marvin E. Lewis	....	boom operator
Andy Malcolm	....	foley artist
Anna Malkin	....	foley recording assistant
Barbara Noren	....	assistant sound editor
Fred Peck III	....	sound re-recordist
Joel Shryack	....	dialogue editor (adr editor) (as Joel Shyrack)
Robert Smith	....	additional sound re-recordist
Greg Steele	....	adr mixer
Don White	....	foley recording mixer
Dan Yale	....	foley supervisor
Greg Zimmerman	....	adr recordist
Mike McKone	....	sound production assistant (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Matthew G. Armstrong	....	special effects technician: Abu Dhabi
Marc Banich	....	special effects technician
Richard Brown	....	senior special effects technician: Abu Dhabi
Rodney M. Byrd	....	special effects general foreman (as Rodney Byrd)
Douglas Calli	....	special effects technician (as Doug Calli)
Terry Chapman	....	special effects technician (as Terry P. Chapman)
Burt Dalton	....	special effects coordinator
Quin Davis	....	special effects makeup
Albert Delgado	....	special effects technician
John Frazier	....	supervising special effects coordinator
David Greene	....	physical effects foreman
Greg Hendrickson	....	special effects
Matthew Horton	....	senior special effects technician: Abu Dhabi unit
David A. Poole	....	special effects technician
Mark Stanton	....	special effects technician
Bruno Van Zeebroeck	....	additional special effects coordinator (as Bruno VanZeebroeck)
Chris L. Ward	....	special effects technician
David Watkins	....	special effects supervisor: Abu Dhabi unit (as David G. Watkins)

Visual Effects by
Amit Aidasani	....	matchmove lead
Erik Akutagawa	....	scan record manager
Danny Albano	....	digital compositor: Technicolor Digital Services
Brad Alexander	....	pre-visualization supervisor
Kenneth Au	....	Inferno artist
Erika Bach	....	3D scanning assistant coordinator
Basel Bazlamit	....	pre-visualization artist
Jeffery Beeland	....	pipeline technical director
Eric Bonilla	....	tracker
Chris Bowers	....	pre-visualization lead
Tom Bradley	....	lighter
Nathan Brunskill	....	Inferno assistant: Rhythm & Hues
Steward Burris	....	animator
Tom Capizzi	....	lighter
Shyam Chand	....	rotoscope artist
Jo-Wan Chao	....	modeling technical director
Arun P. Chidambaram	....	educator: Rhythm and Hues
Raymond Chih	....	lead lighting artist
Vikas Chirate	....	systems administrator
Sandesh Chonkar	....	modeler
Daniel Aristoteles Collins	....	systems/operations: Rhythm & Hues
Michael Conelly	....	digital supervisor (as Michael Galen Conelly)
Michael Crane	....	digital compositor: Rhythm & Hues
Caroline Dahllof	....	texture painter
Rajdeep Dandekar	....	roto/prep artist: Rhythm & Hues India
Paresh Dedhia	....	digital compositor
Yoshi DeHerrera	....	3D laser scanning
John 'D.J.' Des Jardin	....	visual effects supervisor (as John DJ Desjardin)
Amol Dighe	....	render engineer
Colin Elliott	....	animator: Rhythm & Hues
Richard Enders	....	lead tracker
Anders Ericson	....	effects technical director (as Anders Eriksson)
Mike Frevert	....	compositor
Alex Garcia	....	texture painter
Andy Garcia	....	texture artist
Bertha Garcia	....	rotoscope/compositing liaison
Divakar Ghodake	....	digital artist (Lead Modeling TD)
Lisa Goldberg	....	visual effects producer
Daniel D. Gregoire	....	executive: Halon
Varun Hadkar	....	rotoscope artist
Anthony Harris	....	color timer
John Heller	....	senior Inferno artist
Shweta Hirani	....	rotoscope artist
Phil Holland	....	scan-, record coordinator
Justin Holt	....	lead texture painter: Rhythm & Hues
David Horsley	....	lighter
Sean Hyun-In Lee	....	digital compositor: Rhythm & Hues (as Sean Lee)
Neeraj Ingle	....	rotoscope artist: Rhythm & Hues, India
Yukiko Ishiwata	....	Inferno artist
Vinita Iyer	....	matchmove lead: Rhythm & Hues India
Marvin Jones	....	rotoscope artist (as Marvin F. Jones)
Tex Kadonaga	....	modeling technical director: Rhythm & Hues
Kamalakkannan	....	digital compositor
Perry Kass	....	compositor
David Y. Kim	....	previsualization artist
Gene Kozicki	....	digital production manager
Radha Kulkarni	....	match move technical director: Rhythm & Hues, India
Pavan Kumar	....	digital compositor
Harry Lam	....	2D visual effects supervisor (as Hoiyue Harry Lam)
Jaemin Lee	....	lighter
Matthew Leishman	....	character rigger
Dave Lo	....	modeler: Rhythm & Hues
Mabel	....	matchmove artist
Richard Mahon	....	art director
Richard Mahon	....	lead matte painter
Vangala Manoj	....	modeler (as Manoj Vangala Venkata)
Jon Meier	....	lighter
Chirag Mistry	....	modeler: Rhythm & Hues, India
Derrick Mitchell	....	visual effects editor
Rakesh More	....	matchmove technical director: Rhythm & Hues, India
Ram Mohan Nadam Reddy	....	paint/roto artist
Rishikesh Nandlaskar	....	modeling technical director
Paul Naveen	....	digital compositor
Blake Nickle	....	visual effects coordinator: 3D
Stephen Null	....	lighting technical director
Stephen Null	....	look development
Samuel Nunez	....	tracker (as Samuel L. Nunez)
Sijo Pappachan	....	pipeline technical director: Rhythm and Hues India
John Paszkiewicz	....	lighter
Chaitali Patel	....	modeler
Cedric Pereira	....	rotoscope/compositing liaison
Pavan Rao	....	compositor
Suryapal Rawat	....	Bgprep Artist: Rhythm & Hues Studios
Madhava Reddy	....	digital intermediate
Patrick J. Rodriguez	....	pre-visualization artist
Marc Rubone	....	digital compositor
Karl Rumpf	....	visual effects production manager: Rhythm & Hues
Josh Saeta	....	senior compositor
Saswat Sahoo	....	pipeline technical director: Rhythm & Hues
Mayuresh Salunke	....	3D artist
Mayuresh Salunke	....	modeling technical director
Mayur Samant	....	matchmove lead
Jeffrey Schaper	....	data wrangler
Tiffany Schmitter	....	visual effects coordinator: 2D
Vijay Selvam	....	digital compositor: Rhythm and Hues
Seshaprasad	....	digital production manager: Rhythm & Hues, India
Siddharth Shah	....	prep/paint artist
Siddharth Shah	....	roto artist
Neha Sharma	....	visual effects coordinator
Murugan Siju	....	roto/prep artist
Sadhna Singh	....	modeler
Brad Smith	....	render I/O administrator
Hitesh Solanki	....	matchmove technical director: Rhythm & Hues, India
Jateen Thakkar	....	digital compositor: Rhythm and Hues
Arati Ullal	....	modeler (as Arati Ulal)
Shraga Weiss	....	modeler: Rhythm & Hues
Jeff Wells	....	digital compositor: Rhythm & Hues
Sagar Zade	....	digital artist
Sagar Zade	....	modeling technical director
Peter Zoppi	....	modeler
Edward Derian Boyke	....	render I/O coordinator (uncredited)
Harrison Hays	....	render I/O lead (uncredited)

Stunts
Layla Alexander	....	stunt performer
Greg Anthony	....	stunts
Daniel Arrias	....	stunt performer
Sala Baker	....	stunts
Zoe Bell	....	stunts
Chino Binamo	....	stunts
Jon Braver	....	stunts
Brian Brown	....	stunts
Jack Carpenter	....	stunts
Eric Chambers	....	stunts
Doug Coleman	....	stunts
Douglas Crosby	....	stunts
Max Daniels	....	stunt performer
Steve Dent	....	stunts
J. Mark Donaldson	....	stunt double: Chris Cooper
Shauna Duggins	....	stunt double: Jennifer Garner
Eyad Elbitar	....	stunts
Eddie J. Fernandez	....	stunt double: Ali Suliman
Eddie J. Fernandez	....	stunt performer
Jesus Lara Fierro	....	stunts
J. Armin Garza II	....	stunt driver: high speed camera car
Glenn Goldstein	....	stunt performer
Tad Griffith	....	stunt performer
Chris Guzzi	....	stunt double: Jason Bateman
Chris Guzzi	....	stunt driver
Nick Hermz	....	stunt performer
Michael Hilow	....	stunt driver
Michael Hugghins	....	stunt double
Krisztian Kery	....	stunts (as Christian Kery)
Alex Krimm	....	stunts
Mark Kubr	....	stunts
Theo Kypri	....	stunts
Aaron Michael Lacey	....	stunt driver: precision driving
Nito Larioza	....	stunts
Sherry Leigh	....	stunts
Brian Machleit	....	stunt double
Anderson Martin	....	stunts
Anthony Martins	....	stunts
Anthony Mar