Spielberg to Film War Epic in Queensland
Award-winning producer, Steven Spielberg, has just been given the green light for he and partner Tom Hanks to film their next war epic in the luscious surrounds of North Queensland, Australia.
The $140 million World War II mini-series, titled The Pacific, will begin filming next month in the town of Mossman, just west of Port Douglas, after the council gave their final approval on the project yesterday.
Other parts of the series will be filmed in Melbourne and other regional centres of Victoria.
This is the second time Hanks and Spielberg will team up to produce a war mini-series, after creating the critically-acclaimed Band of Brothers in 2001. The Pacific will tell the story of three US Marines during World War II.
“They have already started rocking in here to set up some of their infrastructure,” Douglas Shire deputy mayor David Egan said today. He added that the Queensland stint of the filming was expected to continue until at least December this year.
It sounds like North Queensland is the new “It” place to film in Australia, with the brains behind the award-winning Moulin Rogue, Baz Luhrmann, currently in Bowen to film his epic feature film, Australia.
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