Film bigs vow not to shoot in Ga., after strict abort law passed

Prominent film executives say their production companies will not shoot in Georgia in response to a recently passed anti-abortion law.

Mark Duplass of Duplass Brothers Productions, Christine Vachon of Killer Films and David Simon of Blown Deadlines Productions each vowed to keep their businesses out of the state after Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed a bill that outlaws abortions if a heartbeat can be identified. That can happen six weeks into pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant.

“Don’t give your business to Georgia,” Duplass tweeted. “Will you pledge with me not to film anything in Georgia until they reverse this backwards legislation?”

Vachon, meanwhile, tweeted that her company will not view Georgia as an option “until this ridiculous law is overturned.”

And Simon who created the acclaimed series “The Wire,” shared a similar sentiment, writing that his studio won’t consider Georgia until “we can be assured the health options and civil liberties of our female colleagues are unimpaired.”

“I can’t ask any female member of any film production with which I am involved to so marginalize themselves or compromise their inalienable authority over their own bodies,” he wrote in a separate tweet on Friday. “I must undertake production where the rights of all citizens remain intact. Other filmmakers will see this.”

A number of notable TV and film productions have shot in Georgia in recent years, including “Stranger Things” and “The Walking Dead.”