For what it's worth, Ridley Scott is British. Anyway, he is a very visually-oriented director but can be quite relaxed about details. The Counselor is set in the Texan-Mexico borderlands, but was mostly filmed in Spain and the UK. Scott passed off Canada Square in Canary Wharf as downtown El Paso, and there's also a nightclub where the exterior is a modern industrial unit in Spain and the interior is "underneath the arches" of a Victorian railway viaduct. There are even a few scenes where inconvenient backgrounds are blocked by red London buses...