Marvel to continue filming “Black Panther 2” in Georgia

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Angels. Filming of “Black Panther 2” will continue in Georgia, despite the fact that his team opposes the controversial electoral reform approved by the state legislators, he explained. director Ryan Coogler it is a statement.

“As an African-American, I oppose all attempts, explicit or not, to reduce the electorate and gain access to the vote,” the filmmaker explained in a letter published Friday in the Deadline newspaper.

However, Coogler added that his film is kept in Georgia so as not to punish local employees who depend on the film industry.

“After talking to voting activists, I came to understand that many of the people employed in my film, including all the local vendors and companies we work with, are the same people who will suffer,” he said.

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In this way, the Marvel film echoed the reasoning of Stacey Abrams, the democratic policy that was fundamental to the expansion of voting in Georgia and whose demographic change culminated in the last presidential election with a historic victory for Democrats.

In any case, actor and producer Will Smith will not shoot his next film, “Emancipation,” in Georgia in protest of the same electoral reform.

In recent years, Georgia has earned the nickname “South American Hollywood,” and the arrival of creative professionals is one of the reasons given by experts to explain an ideological turn that Republicans are trying to stop.

The rejection of the law by the film industry adds to the rejection expressed by large companies such as Coca Cola, Apple and Delta, which also operate in the state.

According to his detractors, the electoral reform approved by the Republicans limits the right to vote because adds new requirements if you want to do it by mail, imposes more requests when registering and identifying and prohibits actions such as providing food and drink to voters who are waiting in long lines to cast their ballots in crowded centers, among other provisions.

Voting by mail was crucial in the last general election because of the pandemic and was the favorite target of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who did not stop criticizing it and considering it, without evidence, a source of electoral fraud.

One hundred US business leaders discussed their response to the list of electoral reforms pushed by Republican lawmakers in 47 states last weekend.

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