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Just found out The Blob (1988) was filmed in Louisiana
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:15 am
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:15 am
A really good remake. Any older people here remember the production?
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Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:40 am to Parmen
Abbeville baw.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:41 am to Parmen
C’mon man. That is Abbeville’s greatest accomplishment.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:46 am to Parmen
I lived in Lafayette at the time. A movie being produced locally was a big deal back then.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 8:55 am to Parmen
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A really good remake. Any older people here remember the production?
Yes, I was a college student in Lafayette. The story line I think was the setting was supposed to be in New England in a slow snow season. And in Abbeville, there was no snow. Surprise.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 9:26 am to Parmen
Despite some assertions to the contrary, Louisiana's film industry didn't take off in 2002 - although it did draw a lot of bigger budget productions after that time due to incentives, they've been making movies here since the 19th century.
Part of the reason is climate, but mainly because very few other places can pass for Louisiana - so a Louisiana setting often dictates at least partially filming it here.
Obviously parts of Live and Let Die (James Bond franchise film, first with Roger Moore) were filmed here. The Richard Pryor/Jackie Gleason vehicle, The Toy, was filmed almost entirely in and around Baton Rouge - with Richard Donner famously vowing to never film in the city again (air pollution blamed for Pryor's pneumonia during production).
That run of late 80s films with Dennis Quaid - Everybody's All American, The Big Easy and Great Balls of Fire, heck I was still at LSU for those. Also, Steel Magnolias was produced around that time.
Certainly in the post "Tax Credit" era, those numbers are way, way up.
Part of the reason is climate, but mainly because very few other places can pass for Louisiana - so a Louisiana setting often dictates at least partially filming it here.
Obviously parts of Live and Let Die (James Bond franchise film, first with Roger Moore) were filmed here. The Richard Pryor/Jackie Gleason vehicle, The Toy, was filmed almost entirely in and around Baton Rouge - with Richard Donner famously vowing to never film in the city again (air pollution blamed for Pryor's pneumonia during production).
That run of late 80s films with Dennis Quaid - Everybody's All American, The Big Easy and Great Balls of Fire, heck I was still at LSU for those. Also, Steel Magnolias was produced around that time.
Certainly in the post "Tax Credit" era, those numbers are way, way up.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:34 am to Ace Midnight
Somehow I don’t think Pryor’s pneumonia was due to the air pollution. It was due to the other particulate matter he was inhaling.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:40 am to Parmen
Put some respect on Abbeville’s name
Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:40 am to Ace Midnight
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Live and Let Die (James Bond franchise film, first with Roger Moore)
One of my favorites.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:13 am to Parmen
So you watch Cinemassacre too ehh?
Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:44 am to Dr RC
Yup. Have for over a decade now.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:56 am to teke184
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Somehow I don’t think Pryor’s pneumonia was due to the air pollution.
Right - I chuckle at that, considering Donner is from The Bronx, and so much of Hollywood's work is done in L.A. Sure, we have humidity and chemical plants, but Southern California's air quality, particularly from the late 1960s through the 1990s was famously bad.
And, Rich was freebasing like a demon during that era (and a famously heavy smoker at times, too).
This post was edited on 10/6/19 at 11:56 am
Posted on 10/6/19 at 12:52 pm to Ace Midnight
Also the Apostle and Crazy in Alabama both filmed in Houma prior to tax credits.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:06 pm to BlackAdam
The Apostle was filmed in Lafayette
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:09 pm to Parmen
"Sex, Lies, and Videotape" was filmed in Baton Rouge in the late 80's.
It won the Palme d'Or and best actor at Cannes, an Oscar for best screenplay, and is in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Go Baton Rouge.
EDIT: Nominated for the Oscar. Didn't win.
It won the Palme d'Or and best actor at Cannes, an Oscar for best screenplay, and is in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Go Baton Rouge.
EDIT: Nominated for the Oscar. Didn't win.
This post was edited on 10/6/19 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:30 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Soderbergh went to LSU Lab School
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:43 pm to Parmen
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Soderbergh went to LSU Lab School
While his father was Dean of Education at LSU.
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:58 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Don't forget Tightrope with Clint Eastwood
Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:59 pm to Parmen
I remember seeing it at the theater and it kind of wigged me out since I was 8
Posted on 10/6/19 at 3:10 pm to TigerstuckinMS
A lesser known film of his is Schizopolis, which is filmed at various places throughout BR.
It also included Channel 2 anchor Margaret Lawhon doing an off color bit about the US selling Rhode Island off to be enclosed and used as the world’s largest indoor mall.
It also included Channel 2 anchor Margaret Lawhon doing an off color bit about the US selling Rhode Island off to be enclosed and used as the world’s largest indoor mall.
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