LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Last summer, Tim Dax answered an ad on a casting website to costar in what was described as a desert adventure film.

This week, the Los Angeles actor learned that his work on the low-budget “Desert Warrior” had turned into the inflammatory 14-minute trailer for “Innocence of Muslims.” Dax and his “Desert Warrior” costars are at the center of violent outbursts across the Middle East after their work was repurposed into an anti-Muslim movie that caught the world’s attention after it appeared in an Arabic-language version on YouTube.