Shooting of the film started in late September 2004 and finished shooting in early December. The filming locations mainly include the small town of Van Horn on the western border of Texas and the Davis Mountains. In order to film the vast deserts and magnificent canyons, the crew must be prepared to deal with heat waves and mountain floods at any time.
The most thrilling scene of the film is the shot of a white horse full of supplies falling from a cliff. The multi-angle shooting makes the picture extremely impactful. Because you can see the place directly from Jones’s farm, the location is very good, but the horses that complete the stunts must be selected from the farm. It took more than a month from training the horses to shooting the effects in the film on the cliffs. time. The white horse in the cliff falling shot is actually a fake horse, with its head and front hooves movable. The entire set of shots was taken by 5 cameras. Although the film showed that Peter was riding a horse and dragging Mike across the boundary river, in the actual filming process, Jones was unwilling to lead the crew and equipment into Mexico without official permission to avoid unnecessary trouble. So, he just rode up to the middle of the river and turned back at another angle.
The last day of the filming became the most difficult day. There were two locations that needed to be filmed. One place was boulders that were rugged and uneven, and trucks could not drive in; the other place was in the river, where the tide was high and the water depth had already exceeded 9 feet, so the crew had to delay another week.
