Hollywood movie filming in Columbus wants your help. Do you have these items to rent?
A Hollywood movie scheduled to be filmed in Columbus next month wants to rent some items from Chattahoochee Valley residents to help with the production.
The movie, titled “The Razor’s Edge,” stars James Franco and Oscar-winner Tommy Lee Jones. It is billed as an action thriller.
IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, describes the plot this way: “A former mob hitman faces a dilemma when his daughter is kidnapped and his love interest targeted. He must take on a final dangerous job while evading a ruthless assassin.”
Co-producer Alexander Kane told the Ledger-Enquirer he welcomes anyone interested in helping the film to email him at [email protected] if they have experience working as a crew member on the set of a production or if they have the following items to rent:
Black luxury SUVs manufactured in 2002-24.
Cool classic cars.
Suburban house, built since 2000, with 2-3 bedrooms in middle-class neighborhood.
Filming is expected to run from July 4-22. Locations in Columbus haven’t been finalized, Kane said.
Kane is a partner with Mike Donovan at Workhorse Cinema, based in Fitzgerald. Since he retired from the oil business in 2017, Kane joined Donovan to lure film projects from the traditional Hollywood production cities of Los Angeles, New York and London to Georgia cities beyond Atlanta.
The selling points: Georgia’s second-tier cities and smaller towns offer diversified settings, Southern hospitality and less expensive costs for productions.
Plus, with state and local financial incentives and a growing population of skilled film crew members, thanks to Georgia Film Academy centers at institutions such as Columbus State University, this city and others in the state have attracted significant productions.
Just in recent years, movies starring Hollywood actors Bruce Willis, John Travolta and Beau Bridges have been filmed in the Chattahoochee Valley as the Columbus Film Office and Flat Rock Studio work to make the Columbus area a production hub.
