I’ve covered a number of film shoots in Kentucky over the last four years. When Orlando Bloom and Andie MacDowell were in Campbellsburg and New Castle shooting a crime thriller called Red Right Hand in 2022, that, as it turned out, was the proverbial snowball at the top of the incline.
The next thing you know, five-time Oscar-nominated actor and director Ethan Hawke was filming scenes in Louisville, Shelbyville and Frankfort for his biopic of author Flannery O’Connor called .
Kentucky Has Become a Hollywood Hot Spot
Since then, relatively speaking, it’s been a near-steady stream of Hollywood filmmakers finding themselves in the Commonwealth for their next projects. (I’ve said all along that our cities and small towns are picturesque enough to serve as movie backdrops.)…