emancipation The film production is suspended for the time being.
COVID-19 cases have increased rapidly across the country recently. In order to reduce these numbers, many Hollywood production companies have been paused. Apple Studios is the latest company to stop filming due to COVID-19.
Accordingly Meeting, Apple’s up-and-coming thriller about runaway slavesemancipationwith Will Smith in the lead role, the shooting has temporarily stopped due to the few positive Covid cases in the crew.
emancipationis filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. According to USAFacts.Org, Louisiana is one of the six states where the number of positive COVID-19 cases has increased more than 400% in the past few weeks. The other five states include Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee.emancipationfilming moved from Georgia to Louisiana after a controversial electoral law was passed.
meetingalso reported that the break begins tomorrow and is expected to last about five days.
In the film directed by Antoine Fuqua from a script by William N. Collage, Smith plays Peter, a slave who escaped from a plantation in Louisiana after being flogged within an inch of his life. The thriller is based on Peter’s true story and was inspired by the painful photo of his bareback marked by the brutal flogging.
emancipationis Smith’s second film to end production. Recently a heavily delayed film that is being packaged for financial reasons and now,
Recently, a badly delayed film produced by The Fresh Prince was also discontinued for financial reasons.