Posted on 07/01/2019 9:32:47 AM PDT by jazusamo
There's one director who doesn't care what his peers think. While the rest of Hollywood is running away from the state of Georgia in protest of the pro-life "heartbeat bill," which bans abortions the moment a heartbeat is detected, Clint Eastwood and Warner Brothers are staying put for their new film, Richard Jewell.
The studio has explained to the press that the film, based on the true story of the bombing at Atlanta's Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, would be best served by geographical authenticity.
We have made the decision to tell this compelling story based on real people and events in the locations where it actually took place, which is in and around Atlanta," Warner Brothers told IndieWire. "As is always the case, we worked closely with our production partners to determine how and where to shoot this film, in order to best reflect authenticity in the storytelling.
Rebelling along with Eastwood and filming in the Peach State would be his A-list cast, including Oscar winners Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, the police officer and security guard who discovered the bomb at the Olympics.
Other celebrities, chief among them Alyssa Milano, have led the effort to boycott Georgia over Gov. Brian Kemp's signature on the "heartbeat bill." Production companies have nearly heeded those calls and threatened to end all of their Georgia business ventures, including big names like Disney and Netflix.
Former Democratic Georgia lawmaker Stacey Abrams, a progressive hero, has asked these companies to reconsider for the sake of her state's economy.
Eastwood's refusal to succumb to peer pressure shouldn't surprise anyone who watched his controversial conversation with an empty chair at the 2012 Republican National Convention. For several minutes, he pretended to speak to President Obama by way of completely upending his agenda. What other Hollywood heavy hitter would dare to do that?
I can’t imagine Clint Eastwood letting anyone tell him what to do.
Nor me, I can imagine his two word answer to those who told him not to do it. :^)
They are Filming Movies here is MS even though a Heartbeat Abortion Bill was Passed and signed into Law.
Federal Judge Carlton W Reeves of the US District Court in Jackson issued a preliminary injunction against the ban.
On April 28, 2010, Reeves was nominated by President Barack Obama to fill a seat on the Southern District of Mississippi.
We’re they boycotting Indiana for a while too? Is that still on? If so, need to film there as well just to piss off Hollyweird.
Atlanta Olympics, 1996:
An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.
Knowing Richard Jewell revers real cops the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.
The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?
A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their training video, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with his friends, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.
He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that hes in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.
YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.
It started at least 20 years ago.
Bump!
Smart Move, his film crew will probably receive the royal treatment.
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Georgia is quickly taking over the TV and film industry.
Here are the 35 movies and TV shows filming in Georgia this July 2019.
http://www.projectcasting.com/news/now-filming-in-georgia/
Project |
Type |
Distributor/Network |
Anti-Life |
Feature Film |
indie |
Black Lightning S3 |
TV Special/Series |
CW |
Brockmire S4 |
TV Special/Series |
IFC |
Christmas on the Square |
TV Movie |
Netflix |
Coming 2 America |
Feature Film |
Paramount |
Conjuring 3 |
Feature Film |
Warner Bros. |
Couples Court with the Cutlers |
TV Reality |
syndicated |
Deadly Cult |
TV Reality |
Oxygen |
Disappearance of the Millbrook Twins |
TV Reality |
Oxygen |
Dish Nation S7 |
TV Reality |
FOX |
Don't Be Tardy S8 |
TV Reality |
Bravo |
Dwight in Shining Armor S2 |
TV Special/Series |
BYUTV |
Encore |
TV Reality |
Disney Platform |
Fear Street |
Feature Film |
FOX |
Good Eats: The Return |
TV Reality |
Food Network |
Greenland |
Feature Film |
STX |
Greenleaf S4 |
TV Special/Series |
OWN |
Hillbilly Elegy |
Feature Film |
Netflix |
Holidate |
Feature Film |
Netflix |
Insatiable S2 |
TV Special/Series |
Netflix |
Intolerable with Nancy Grace |
TV Reality |
Oxygen |
Lauren Lake's Paternity Court |
TV Reality |
syndicated |
Lovecraft Country |
TV Special/Series |
HBO |
Married to Medicine S7 |
TV Reality |
Bravo |
Ozark S3 |
TV Special/Series |
Netflix |
P Valley |
TV Special/Series |
Starz |
Personal Injury Court |
TV Reality |
syndicated |
Real Housewives of Atlanta S12 |
TV Reality |
Bravo |
Richard Jewell |
Feature Film |
Warner Bros. |
Stargirl S1 |
TV Special/Series |
DC Universe |
Sweet Magnolias |
TV Special/Series |
Netflix |
The Outsider |
TV Special/Series |
HBO |
The Plath Family |
TV Reality |
TLC |
The Slaton Sisters |
TV Reality |
TLC |
The Time Capsule |
Feature Film |
indie |
The Walking Dead S10 |
TV Special/Series |
AMC |
Untitled Dating Project |
TV Reality |
Bravo |
Undergound Railroad |
TV Special/Series |
Amazon |
Waldo |
Feature Film |
indie |
Wife Swap S2 |
TV Reality |
|
I live near downtown Atlanta, haven’t seen any slowdown in film production. Thanks for confirming what I’m seeing.
i am under the impression that the walking dead and archer tv series are also made in georgia.
Yeah, I see what you’re doing there; trying to get the Hollywood types to move out of Illinois and and go next door.
Olivia Wilde is way left, huge Hitlery 2016 supporter. I guess money trumps (hehe)her moral fiber.
Olivia Wilde is way left, huge Hitlery 2016 supporter. I guess money trumps (hehe)her moral fiber.
“I cant imagine Clint Eastwood letting anyone tell him what to do.”
I can’t imagine any actor or actress turning down a role in a Clint Eastwood movie. But we will see.
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