Just add flesh-eating cadaversGAZING across the shrubland and pine trees of his 1,500-acre site outside Savannah, Jake Shapiro envisages star-struck tourists milling around movie backlots, plus a helipad, man-made water features and an amphitheatre. True, the current denizens of the land (leased on generous terms from Effingham County) are wild pigs, turkeys and snakes; but within five years, Mr Shapiro says, or thereabouts, Hollywood A-listers will swarm on 30 new sound stages, making Moon River Studios one of America’s biggest film-making facilities. Construction is imminent, he says; shooting will begin next year.
Everything is in place, insists Mr Shapiro, who is from New Jersey. The woes of the Chinese stockmarket will help the project find investors. Georgia is cheap: you can build an ersatz New York office, he quips, for less than you can rent one in the city itself. And Moon River’s intention to make its own pictures, back-to-back like the great studios of yore, will yield huge savings. Counting the inevitable foreign-distribution deals—and Georgia’s bounteous tax-incentive scheme for producers—the pictures...Continue reading
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