[gojomo]

$10,000 in production costs, $4,990,000 million in post-production security.

I watched a 13m51s 'trailer' that was linked from one of the NYTimes stories. It's hilariously awful, and further: some of the most-likely-to-offend, specifically anti-Muhammad/anti-Islam lines are clumsily dubbed in with different voices than the main actors.

Thus I suspect there's a chance that even the actors didn't know completely how their performances would be used: they might have thought it was some other period drama, that then via redubbing it had its offensiveness "turned up to 11".

[eslachance]

Your suspicion turned out to be correct. At least one of the actresses in the movie spoke out about the fact that they were actually cast for "Desert Warrior", a movie with absolutely nothing to do with Muhammad. They never even spoke the name! Everything was, as we can clearly see, dubbed in post-production.

At least one source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/anti-islam-film/index.ht...