Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) yesterday voiced support for director Tsai Yueh-hsun’s (蔡岳勳) plan to build a Hollywood-style movie studio and theme park in the city.
“I hope different sectors of society can cooperate to make this dream come true,” Chen told reporters at City Hall.
A report published by the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) yesterday quoted Tsai as saying that he planned to build a studio and an amusement park next to it.
Tsai, director of the TV drama Black & White (痞子英雄), is going to Kaohsiung to shoot a movie prequel to the drama in June.
Tsai said he sent people to Universal Studios in the US to gain experience there, adding that the project would require about NT$5 billion (US$156.1 million) in investment and five to 10 years to complete.
Chen said Black & White and director Leon Dai’s (戴立忍) movie No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (不能沒有你) had both shown that the city’s natural scenery could make great movie settings.
Huang Min-hsiung (黃敏雄), director of the city’s Information Office, said 18 films and TV series have been shot in Kaohsiung.
He said the city planned to offer transportation stipends to crews coming to inspect possible locations in the city in addition to accommodation discounts that are already available to movie and TV crews.
Huang said the city government would discuss Tsai’s studio idea with Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖), director of the hit movie Cape No. 7 (海角七號), when Wei visits the city in May.
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