Hollywood blockbuster to be shot in Kingaroy
KINGAROY will set the stage for a major new movie starring Aussie actor and Vikings star
Travis Fimmel.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk yesterday announced the provisionally-titled Danger
Close film about the Battle of Long Tan will enter pre-production this month. Filming will begin around Anzac Day.
It will be produced by Australian Martin Walsh and written by Stuart Beattie of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of
the Black Pearl fame.
“As Queenslanders pause to reflect on the sacrifices of our soldiers over the past century, a film crew will be capturing their very personal stories of courage, honour, mateship and loss,” she said.
Production will employ an estimated 120 full-time crew members and offer 30 principal cast and bit-part roles.
Ms Palaszczuk is on a weeklong trade and investment mission in the US this week, and has met with several heads of film studios in recent days.
“It’s now critical that the Turnbull Government make permanent an increase in the location tax offset incentive at 30 per cent to give studios certainty as they prepare to finance these films,” she said. Danger Close is a collaborative project between Martin Walsh’s production house Red Dune Productions and John and Michael Schwarz’s Deeper Water.