The film about the Flint Water Crisis is a go - and it will be filmed in Toronto!?!?!?!?!

[Siwsan]

FLINT, MI -- The cast has been set for the Lifetime movie "Flint" based on the city's water crisis and includes some household names.

Entertainers Queen Latifah and Jill Scott are set to star in the film along with actress Betsy Brandy of CBS's "Life in Pieces" and "Sneaky Pete" actress Marin Ireland, according to a Deadline.com story.

Bruce Beresford will direct the production, with Barbara Stepansky crafting a script based on a Time Magazine story. Production on the film is set to begin next week in Toronto.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/04/queen_latifah_jill_scott_to_st.html#incart_river_home

[Blue_Adept]

1. Would the residents of Flint want a dramatized version filmed there?

And would a production company be able to achieve it properly?

[Siwsan]

3. People were pretty excited, when this was first floated around

We have had productions filmed here, before, and the welcome could not have been warmer. And if the story is told accurately, it will be a real blessing, even if this is "just" a Lifetime Movies production. I don't know enough about them to form an opinion about their quality.

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

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I hope they include comments from ReTHUG primary candidates.

[Siwsan]

4. And I put most of the blame on our idiot governor for canceling the film incentives!!!!!!

However, this would have been a massive slap in his face, had the production planned on at least SOME location shooting.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Because films are rarely filmed in the city

where they supposedly take place.

And if the Governor of Michigan cancelled film incentives, well there you go.

Governors of states often only look at the tax money they think they lose, rather than the other money poured into the economy when movies and TV series are filmed in their states.

[WinkyDink]

6. Canada is often a stand-in for the US. It's all about the Benjamins.

[Siwsan]

7. I have friends and family in the "industry", so yea, I know about Canada.

I'm bracing myself for a phone call from my brother, who will probably go ballistic. He fought really hard for the state to maintain the film incentives.

I still hope they do a little location shooting, here.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. Things are always being filmed near my office in Calgary

Across the bridge from my office and you're in Brooklyn, down the street and you're in Manhattan. Go a little bit west and keep the cameras at a high angle and you're in Miami. Go up the hill and you're at a picturesque New England college campus. Go an hour to the Southeast and you're in Mexico and an hour West and you're in the mountains of Germany, Italy and France.

There is this all white fuselage of a Fokker 28 that is always being trucked around to different movie sets and painted with different airlines. There are also always prop police cars for random US cities being driven around. I pulled over for a prop police car a few years ago and suddenly had a woman running at me flailing her arms telling me to get out of the shot.

[brooklynite]

9. Lower production costs.

Plenty of TV shows these days are filmed in either Toronto or Vancouver.

I'm sure Donald Trump will fix that up.