After the stunning terrorist attack in Paris, France has put in place new rules halting action movie productions in the city:
To some degree I can’t blame them for wanting to halt these productions. As stated in the article, the fear is that a) the productions might become targets themselves, and b) people might be confused by the productions and, given the heightened sensitivity, might mistake a movie production for something “real”.
As I’m currently not working on any action film set in Paris (!), it doesn’t affect me at all, but there have been some interesting action set pieces filmed in the city before and its a shame there may, at least for the near future, be no more such sequences filmed now.
Perhaps when the world calms down and becomes just a little more sane things might go back to how they were.
Though that might be asking a lot…