Director Ron Howard's adaptation of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix will come to author J.D. Vance's hometown Aug. 5 to film for four days. Reporter Ed Richter of
Andy Lipschultz from the production company said about 125 people will be involved in filming scenes in and around Middletown, Richter says. Stars Glenn Close and Amy Adams visited Middletown in early June with Howard, who also had scouted locations in the area in March and October.
which offers unlimited tax credits to filmmakers. Ohio was out of tax credit funds when Netflix applied for a tax incentive on March 7, The fate of the eight-year-old Ohio Film Tax Rebate program was uncertain until Gov. Mike DeWine signed the new state budget last week and upheld it.
Middletown leaders knew in April that only a small fraction of the film would be shot in the Butler County steel town, which
and family matriarch. Adams, also an Oscar nominee, will play Bev, J.D.'s addiction-riddled mother. Little known actor the fictionalized name for Vance.
Also in the cast are Haley Bennett (The Girl On The Train, The Equalizer), Helen Abell (Stranger Things, Orange Is The New Black), Ethan Suess (Fear The Walking Dead, Scorpion, Alex Inc.), Amy Parrish (Black Lightning, Homeland, House of Cards, Stanger Things), Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire, The Path), Sunny Mabrey (Snakes On A Plane), Bo Hopkins (Dynasty, Murder She Wrote) and Jesse C. Boyd (MacGyver, Gone),
Howard will direct for his Imagine Entertainment company, which acquired rights to Vance's book in 2017. Netflix is paying $45 million to finance the film, Variety says.
Vance, a 2003 Middletown High School graduate, and Julie Oh are executive producers, according to IMDB. Vance is an Iraq war vet who studied political science and philosophy at The Ohio State University and law at Yale.
The script was adapted by Vanessa Taylor, who was nominated for an Oscar with Guillermo del Tor for The Shape of Water. She was also a writer-producer on HBO's Game of Thrones,Jennifer Garner's ABC Aliasaction series and WB's Everwooddrama.
Atlanta-based Tammy Smith Casting in May announced that Hillbilly Elegywould be filming in three George locations 鈥� in Atlanta, Macon and Clayton.
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