DreamWorks and Spielberg Cancel Plans to Film In the Faroe Islands.
On May 20th, 2015, the headline in "Word and Film" said loud and clear: Steven Spielberg Heading to Faroe Islands to Film "The BFG".
On May 22nd, a petition drive was launched to address the plans to film in the Faroes.
Yesterday Screen Daily reported that Spielberg's studio has confirmed that it has never shot nor does it plan to shoot its Roald Dahl adaptation "The BFG" in the Faroe Islands.
Now what happened between May 20th and June 9th? The petition with 50,000 signatures was delivered to DreamWorks protesting the shooting of the film in a place that brutally slaughters pilot whales and dolphins.
Principal photography continues in Vancouver for the movie that will be released in 2016.
It's really too bad. The Faroe Islands are a beautiful backdrop to this story but DreamWorks is fully aware that shooting in the Faroe Islands would result in negative publicity and protests against the film.
There will however be filming in the Faroe Islands this summer and there will be celebrity actors coming to the islands. Shooting will take place to cover the activities of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for Operation Sleppid Grindini.
The Faroese have gone to the trouble of drafting new anti-Sea Shepherd laws to discourage Sea Shepherd from defending pilot whales and dolphins.
This means of course that the Faroese whalers see Sea Shepherd as a major threat to the continued barbarity of the annual massacres of whales that they insist they need to indulge in to remain whatever it is they wish to remain, an activity that they may see as acceptable but makes them a pariah in the eyes of the rest of the civilized world where viciously murdering entire families of whales, ripping the babies from their mother's womb and children mutilating the bodies for amusement is frowned upon as being savagely barbaric.
Yesterday Screen Daily reported that Spielberg's studio has confirmed that it has never shot nor does it plan to shoot its Roald Dahl adaptation "The BFG" in the Faroe Islands.
Now what happened between May 20th and June 9th? The petition with 50,000 signatures was delivered to DreamWorks protesting the shooting of the film in a place that brutally slaughters pilot whales and dolphins.
Principal photography continues in Vancouver for the movie that will be released in 2016.
It's really too bad. The Faroe Islands are a beautiful backdrop to this story but DreamWorks is fully aware that shooting in the Faroe Islands would result in negative publicity and protests against the film.
There will however be filming in the Faroe Islands this summer and there will be celebrity actors coming to the islands. Shooting will take place to cover the activities of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for Operation Sleppid Grindini.
The Faroese have gone to the trouble of drafting new anti-Sea Shepherd laws to discourage Sea Shepherd from defending pilot whales and dolphins.
This means of course that the Faroese whalers see Sea Shepherd as a major threat to the continued barbarity of the annual massacres of whales that they insist they need to indulge in to remain whatever it is they wish to remain, an activity that they may see as acceptable but makes them a pariah in the eyes of the rest of the civilized world where viciously murdering entire families of whales, ripping the babies from their mother's womb and children mutilating the bodies for amusement is frowned upon as being savagely barbaric.
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