Mark Wahlberg’s “Flight Risk” takes place entirely in Alaska, with its unforgiving terrain and towering, snow-covered mountain peaks. There’s even a moose.

But the vast majority of the movie was filmed in Las Vegas — with a couple of days at the Mesquite airport — during what was, at the time, the hottest month on record.

“I keep saying, you know, you could have a movie set anywhere and shoot it in Vegas,” Wahlberg says.

The actor bought a $14.5 million home in the Vegas suburb of Summerlin in August 2022 and moved his family to the valley. Before the calendar turned the page to September, he was talking about turning Las Vegas into “Hollywood 2.0.”

“This is definitely proof of concept,” Wahlberg says, with “Flight Risk” showing that Las Vegas has what it takes to create movies, even when those movies have nothing to do with Las Vegas. “With technology, there isn’t anything you can’t do.”

In “Flight Risk,” opening today, a mob accountant named Winston (Topher Grace) is holed up in the Igloo Motel when he’s arrested by U.S. Deputy Marshal Madolyn Harris (Michele Dockery). Once Winston agrees to testify against his boss, Harris just has to get him out of the Alaskan wilderness. First stop: Anchorage, a roughly 90-minute chartered flight away.

That’s where pilot Daryl Booth (Wahlberg) comes in. Even though “Flight Risk’s” twist is given away in its trailers, let’s just say things aren’t exactly what they seem.

All but about seven minutes of the action takes place inside the small aircraft, so the production team modified a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan and made its nose and windows removable for easy access during filming. At LMG Touring Entertainment the plane was placed on a 10-foot gimbal, a motion platform that works much like a mechanical bull to replicate the tilt, roll and other movements of flying.

A rig with six 8K cameras was hung on a 30-foot line beneath a helicopter as it flew over the proper frigid landscapes. To complete the illusion, that footage was then played back at LMG’s studio on 1,830 LED panels that surrounded the plane and its numerous windows on three sides. The fast-paced filming in such a setup allows doesn’t offer much downtime on set.

“We shot the whole movie in 22 days, so it was really, like, down, dirty, gritty,” Wahlberg says. “We’re shooting page after page after page. I like that.”

Ever since Louisiana turned production on its head in 1992 by introducing a system of tax rebates for filming there, movie and TV projects have proven they’ll go just about anywhere if the price is right.