The First TV Show Is Leaving Georgia Over the New Abortion Law. [tr]

Time ^ | May 21, 2019 | Andrew R. Chow

[C19fan]

This week, the director Reed Morano was supposed to fly to Georgia to scout locations for a new show for Amazon Studios called The Power. The drama series is adapted from a novel by Naomi Alderman, in which young women suddenly develop the power to release electrical jolts from their fingers, shifting gender and power dynamics around the world. At least two scouts hired by the show had been working in the Savannah area for several months, prepping for her arrival.

But when Ga. Gov. Brian Kemp signed the “heartbeat” bill on May 7, which effectively bans abortion after six weeks, Morano decided to cancel the trip, pull the scouts, and shut down any possibility of filming a story arc in Georgia. “We had no problem stopping the entire process instantly,” Morano, who won an Emmy for directing three episodes of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, told TIME. “There is no way we would ever bring our money to that state by shooting there.”

[C19fan]

Georgia like many states got on the band wagon of offering lucrative tax credits and rebates to tv and movie production done in the state. They made a deal with the devil. Now the dog is biting the hand the fed them. GA has a choice of living up to its values and rescinding these subsidies or make a sacrifice to Moloch.

[miss marmelstein]

Trashy actors not being able to knock up those gorgeous southern girls...

[Red Badger]

.....or boys...................

[TomServo]

lol...

[rjsimmon]

The drama series is adapted from a novel by Naomi Alderman, in which young women suddenly develop the power to release electrical jolts from their fingers, shifting gender and power dynamics around the world.

Wow... that sounds like a real winner of a show. Kinda like a live action Power Puff Girls. But not as exciting.

[Responsibility2nd]

B F D

[madprof98]

How will our state ever survive without another trashy show from the guy who gave us “The Handmaid’s Tale”?

[V_TWIN]

First, we really don’t care how you did it in Chicago (or hollywood). Second, if you miss it so much, Delta is ready when you are.
– Lewis Grizzard

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Entertainment writers have gone stark raving mad over the past few decades.

This show won’t last past the pilot.

[al_c]

[Bob434]

[[women suddenly develop the power to release electrical jolts from their fingers, shifting gender]]

What Are they doing? Castrating men with their electrical jolts?

[Buckeye McFrog]

in which young women suddenly develop the power to release electrical jolts from their fingers, shifting gender and power dynamics around the world.

I'd rather watch people digging thru crap in storage lockers.

[WKUHilltopper]

So what, Reed Morano? FU

Go make it in San Francraphole.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A Marxist-Feminist take on Bewitched

[vikingd00d]

Technically, they never filmed in Georgia, so they didn’t “leave”.

[Bob434]

you better batten down the hatches because it’s gonna be an economic nightmare when the show leaves lol

[Army Air Corps]

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were much cooler.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So what, Reed Morano? FU Go make it in San Francraphole.

I hear you can reed more ano in San Francisco than in any other city in America.

[relictele]

The drama series is adapted from a novel by Naomi Alderman, in which young women suddenly develop the power to release electrical jolts from their fingers, shifting gender and power dynamics around the world

[Buckeye McFrog]

Dukes of Hazzard shot six episodes in Georgia before leaving. Everyone survived.