The Cairns region is set to benefit from the filming of a major Hollywood film by avatar director James Cameron. Shooting took place around Dunk Island and Mission Beach.
James Cameron's new movie filmed off Dunk Island
ISLANDS and rainforests of the Far North will serve as a backdrop to Hollywood director James Cameron's new $30 million 3D movie.
It is based on a near-death experience involving Australian co-producer Andrew Wright who survived a cave collapse in 1988.
Pictures: Filmed in the Far North
A date for its Australian release has not yet been announced.
While most of the movie has been filmed at the Warner Brothers Studio on the Gold Coast, a film crew also flew north for four days to get tropical footage at Dunk Island and Mission Beach.
They hired Cairns helicopter pilot Steve Spinaze to help with aerial shots.
"The crew were coming to an end of four months of filming on the Gold Coast and so were happy and really good to deal with," Mr Spinaze said.
"They wanted shots of the mainland and then shots for when the main character comes up on a beach.
"In the end we did about a dozen takes which will be cut back to just a few minutes of footage."
The crew stayed at Dunk Island Resort.
Sanctum is the first movie in the Far North to be shot using the Cameron-Pace 3D Camera with aerial mounts fitted.
Cameron earned an Oscar for his hugely popular 3D movie Avatar and some of the images in that movie were inspired by a trip on Skyrail.
Avatar artist Dylan Cole told San Francisco science-fiction website io9 that Cairns' tropical rainforests were an inspiration.
"For a lot of the jungle over views, I used photos that I had taken from the Kuranda Skyrail near Cairns, Australia," Mr Cole told the website.
Other big name productions to have been filmed in this area include The Thin Red Line, TV series The Pacific and Fool’s Gold with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson.
Tourism Tropical North Queensland chief executive Rob Giason said movie production brought not just immediate benefits, but greater awareness of what the region had to offer.
"The challenge is always to get due recognition for the location where these movies are filmed," he said.
"In the long term we think are of great benefit."
Movie King:Parts of James Cameron's latest movie ofering Sanctum have been filmed off Dunk Island and Mission Beach.
No comments:
Post a Comment