TEHRAN -- The producer of “Salman the Persian” has announced that the sets depicting the childhood of Salman are now ready for filming.
In the coming days, production will continue in Shahroud, located in the eastern part of Iran’s Semnan Province.
In an interview with IRNA, producer Hussein Taheri announced that the construction of the new sets for Salman’s childhood around Shahroud has been completed.
Taheri noted that filming of “Salman the Persian” is currently ongoing at the Ghazali Cinema Town in Tehran.
The sets built in the Shahroud area represent the infancy and childhood of Salman, also known as ‘Ardakhsho’, and will be featured in the “Ancient Iran” season.
The producer emphasized that the set, like the other sets of the series, has been constructed with the best materials and high durability.
With the completion of part of the filming at the Marbin complex in Ghazali Cinema Town, the production team will move to Shahroud in the coming days to continue work on these sets.
Taheri said filming for the “Ancient Iran” season began last summer in Ghazali Cinema Town and continued through the fall and winter around Shahroud. The production team has now returned to Ghazali Cinema Town.
The producer expressed confidence that the “Ancient Iran” season will be completed within the next year and a half. During the period, more than 60 new actors will gradually appear before the camera.
According to Taheri, after the completion of the “Ancient Iran” season, the final “Hijaz” season will be filmed.
According to IRNA, the series produced by IRIB at the request of Sima Film Center and made by Zolal Film is being filmed in three seasons: “Ancient Iran”, “Byzantium”, and “Hijaz”.
Written and directed by Davoud Mirbaqeri, filming began in late 2019. With the completion of the “Byzantium” season, the “Ancient Iran” season is now halfway through production.
So far, actors including Farhad Aslani, Alireza Shoja Nouri, Daryoush Farhang, Muhammad Reza Hedayati, Behnaz Tavakoli, Ehteram Boroumand, Ramona Shah, Ali Dehkordi, the late Changiz Jalilvand, Mehdi Faghih, Muhammad Javad Jafarpour, Alireza Mehran, along with over 40 foreign actors from Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, and Armenia, and about 1,500 local and theatrical actors, have appeared before the camera for this series.
The series is made in approximately 60 episodes and is scheduled to be broadcast in 2026.