I should have reread that note more carefully before I posted it. Aside from letting some obvious typos slip through, I overlooked the fact that someone already answered my question about the film production's locations. I believe that I was told the film was shot in New Zealand. I also am wondering about my description of Nero as being known to history as "effeminate." I suppose that may be an unfair stereotype. It is curious, however, why the film's writers chose to make Nero the villain, considering his historical image, fair or not. A much better choice would have been the feisty Emperor Commodus of GLADIATOR fame. If they had played their cards right, the producers could have cast Joaquin Phoenix in the role, and he could have worn an aluminum foil skullcap to keep the good-guy alien from reading his mind. (The latter remark is an allusion to his role in SIGNS.)