Love Wyofile, just not the article. Thank You

Anyone who has worked on films can tell you that real problem for filming in Wyoming is access. Productions need ready access to all sorts of things from multiple daily flights for everything from dailies to the odd item that must be made up in the city (ex. a newspaper with a particular front page or a costume item) and delivered within 24 hours. They can’t wait for a once a day flight that goes through several other cities and may or may not match a delivery schedule on the other end. Even some odd lumberyard item is probably not available in Wyoming’s smaller towns and sending someone to drive 4-5 hours each way to get it just isn’t an option. Our cell phone coverage is spotty to non-existant. There are huge electrical needs and housing needs for large crews. The caterers also cannot fly in their food in a timely fashion and massive amounts of high end food is required. You’d be hard pressed to find most of it outside of Jackson.

It is sad that what Wyoming has to offer film companies IS, for the most part, just the scenery and even that can be found in more accessible places than Wyoming.

Let’s admit it. Many of us live here because no one else does. We put up with what we can’t get for what we have: a relaxed lifestyle in a beautiful place. While we think everyone should see, understand and envy that, this is simply not a place that will work for most big business operations of many kinds and film production companies are even more needy than most.

Most of the movies I’ve seen lately, should have been shot at dawn!

too bad the morgans didn’t hop across the border to montana. then they could still have shakespeare in the park.

I wonder why nobody ever brings up the fact that Hollywood production companies are heavily unionized and Wyoming is a Right To Work state ? The only thing Wyoming possibly has to offer film studios , besides the scenery , is cheap Second World labor. But the Hollywood shops aren’t into scabs.

The scenery can be had elsewhere, too. Most films scripted for Wyoming seem to be shot in Alberta .

Out of 27 paragraphs, only 7 address Wyoming’s “film woes”, and only to state that they have them due to lack of tax incentives. The rest of the article is supposed to be a “review”, but isn’t. It’s a synopsis, which I could find on just about any other film site and in a much more concise form. I’d really like to read about films made in the west, and I thought that’s what I’d be reading about here, but there was no story here. This was superficial at best.

Movie incentives are a crock. If Hollywierd wants to shoot an authentic location film they should be willing to pay their own danged freight. This star-boinking scam is just a race to the bottom for a bit part.