Filming on Killing Season with Robert DeNiro and John Travolta (recently seen dining at The Palm in Buckhead) began in Rabun County at the end of January, with locations to include Tallulah Gorge State Park and Black Rock Mountain State Park. According to independentmail.com, the film's director, Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost Rider), chose the area for the effect he wanted after seeing the 1972 film Deliverance. Shooting continues in the state through March 9th.
Speaking of Deliverance and Rabun County, the first annual Chattooga River Festival is scheduled for June 22-24 in various sites around the county to “celebrate the wild and scenic Chattooga River and the 40th Anniversary of the movie, Deliverance.” The aforementioned indepedentmail.com points out that the event will coincide with the Warner Bros. release of a 40th anniversary Blu-ray edition of the movie. Organizers are attempting to arrange for the movie's stars to attend the festival. According to Oconee County Convention and Visitors Bureau executive director Ken Sloan, Ronnie Cox has already committed to attend. No details are available yet about the pig squealing competition.
A.C.O.D (Adult Children of Divorce) is set to film in Georgia in early March. The movie stars Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Party Down) and Richard Jenkins (The Visitor, Let Me In). Scott plays a thirtysomething whose parents divorced acrimoniously long ago. Now his younger brother is getting married, and Scott's character has to bring his mom and dad back together for the wedding and stop their hatred from ruining the event. The screenplay was written by director Stu Zicherman and producer Ben Karlin, who comes with comedy credentials as an executive producer and head writer on The Daily Show with John Stewart, co-creator and executive producer on the The Colbert Report and consulting producer and writer for Modern Family.
Based on a true story, the independent Christian movie Georgia Justice will be shooting in the Atlanta and Carrolton areas between Feb. 15th and March 20th. Francine Locke (who briefly flashed her young boobies in a shower scene in Risky Business) is slated to star as Jackie Carpenter, a mother whose son is falsely accused of murder and facing a possible death penalty conviction. It’s the first feature for Atlanta-based Gift Box Productions, based on Carpenter’s autobiographical book of the same name.
Jake Stevens: The Last Protector will shoot in Savannah from April 2nd through May 12th. Savannah resident (and local ice cream shop owner) Stratton Leopold (Mission Impossible III, Paycheck, Sum of All Fears) serves as executive producer on the film. Booboo Stewart (The Twilight Series: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2, Dark Games) and his sister Fivel Stewart (Logan, State’s Evidence) star in the movie about a shy teenager learning about the true nature of his destiny as a superhero.
Also in Savannah, the city’s Film Office reports that Abraham Lincoln Versus Zombies, a parody (sorta) of the forthcoming Tim Burton co-production Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (which sounds absurd enough as is) will film in the area from January 28th through February 13th. It’s a low-budget job from a film production company called The Asylum. Indeed.
Matthew Lillard (The Descendants, Scooby Doo) and Georgia native Joe Massingill have joined the cast of Trouble with the Curve, starring Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams. The film will be shooting in Georgia from March 5th through April 19th.
Not many details on this one but the independent feature Fourth and a Longshot starts a slated 25-day shoot on Feb. 15th. It’s a football film, and Marlon Campbell (Tyler Perry’s cuz) is either directing or producing, or working as a gaffer or something.
The Billy Bob Thornton-directed Jayne Mansfield’s Car, which was filmed in Cedartown, Covington and other Georgia locales last year, will debut at the Berlin International Film Festival taking place Feb 9th through 19th. The flick stars Robert Duvall, John Hurt and Kevin Bacon.
The April 20th opening date for The Wettest County reported here last month has been changed to August 31st. The film was shot in the Coweta County area last year.
AMC will expand the third season of the filmed-in-Georgia series The Walking Dead to 16 episodes – that’s three up from season two and ten up from season one. For those who have yet to jump on the dead wagon, AMC will run a first season marathon on Saturday, February 11th, followed on Sunday by the first seven episodes of season two beginning at 1:30 p.m. At 9 p.m. the second season continues with the new episode “Nebraska.”
The fourth season of Drop Dead Diva will be shooting mostly in the Peachtree City area from February 28th through July 6th.
Necessary Roughness begins shooting season two at EUE/Screen Gems studio and in the metro Atlanta area locales in February. The USA network has bumped the series up to 16 episodes over season one’s eleven.
