More bad news from the Justice League camp! It looks like the government rebates they were hoping for are not going to happen! We get the news from comingsoon:
he Sydney Morning Herald reports that Australia is about to lose the George Miller-directed Justice League Mortal after it was refused the Federal Government’s new film production rebate. The Oscar-winning director of Happy Feet and the “Mad Max” films said that the $200 million movie had a 90 per cent chance of being shot overseas after being knocked back by the board of the Film Finance Corporation.
“A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Australian film industry is being frittered away because of very lazy thinking,” Miller said. “If that’s going to be the final decision, they’re throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars of investment that the rest of the world is competing for and, much more significantly, highly skilled creative jobs.”The director of the equity section of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Simon Whipp, has lobbied against Justice League Mortal’s eligibility, describing it as an American story that will be performed in American accents.
You can never count on rebates, it is nice when they happen; but you should always consider them as a surprise. Now if you were promised a rebate and then it doesn’t happen, you have reason to be upset. From the above information however, it appears a request was submitted; then turned down. This happens more often than not, and I am not certain complaining will get you any more luck, but we shall see.
We have long been skeptical about the upcoming Justice League: The Teenage Years so I can’t say that the project leaving Australia is bad news for them at this point. Losing the business is too bad, but if the film ends up coming together like we think it will (shit) then I think it will be easier for the country to live with their decision. We will see if the relocation actually happens, too much work has probably already begun to move shop; time will tell.
