Reports of Filming Have Not Been Over-Exaggerated
Decatur Metro | July 22, 2009Georgia’s new, massive tax breaks for film studios have turned the city of Atlanta into a movie set overnight!
Once free to live there lives in relative peace, residents are now reporting having to fight with big-glasses-wearing famous people over silm milk and Truvia at the local coffee shop and attempting to open doors in cardboard-cutout buildings. (Disclosure: The previous sentence is untrue and should be viewed as creative-license gone horribly wrong) It’s madness not seen since the Villa Rica goldrush!
There have been THREE reports of filming around the city and its surrounding environs in recent days. First there was a report on Twitter recently about filming in Oakhurst this past week. Then this morning the city’s Cheryl Burnette reports filming in the Economy parking lot at Arcadia and College. And finally, Rob writes in about some pretty intense filming going on in Candler Park…
Have you heard any info on what is being filmed at the corner of Oakdale and Iverson (block north of Candler Pk Marta station)? For the past few days, dozens of trucks have been parked outside the house on the corner lot. And today, as I walked by on my way to the station, a cherry picker was hoisting lighting equipment. And this afternoon on my walk back through, the back yard was a-buzz with what appeared to be actors taking their marks. There are no signs anywhere about it though.
Do I know what any of this is? Of course not. If you do, please fill the rest of us in.
And it seems as quick as it was set up, it now appears to be mostly wrapped up! The only remnants I saw there today was a generator on a flatbed. Still a mystery. Maybe one day, I’ll be channel-flipping through and stop on TNT and spot that house and my life will be complete.
This might not be it, but some people from the CW network came by our house about a month ago saying they were scouting locations to shoot a new show called, “The Vampire Diaries.” When they found out we were in the City of Decatur limits, they seemed to be disappointed because, according to one of them, Decatur requires more permits. Maybe they bypassed us in favor of other houses. At least I can rest easy now that my house won’t be destroyed by vampires!