Miley Cyrus movie starts filming next week

Miley Cyrus movie starts filming next week Tybee Island has landed a starring role in the new Miley Cyrus movie, and audiences seeing the film next year won't have to wait for the credits to find out the name of the beach town filling the screen. Location managers for the movie "The Last Song," which starts filming on Tybee next week, told residents at a town meeting Monday that the island proved too unique to masquerade as Wrightsville Beach, N.C.

Novelist Nicholas Sparks, who wrote the movie's script, initially set the story in Wrightsville and Wilmington, N.C. But filmmakers persuaded him to change the location to Tybee Island and neighboring Savannah so they could include local landmarks such as the island's towering lighthouse and the oak-shaded squares in Savannah's historic district.

"We had a hard time trying to hide the fact that this was Tybee and Savannah was Savannah," Bass Hampton, the film's location director, told about 80 residents at Tybee city hall.

The movie features 16-year-old Cyrus, the star of "Hannah Montana," as a teenage girl struggling with her parents' divorce who tries to reconnect with her father during a summer at his home in a quiet beach town. Filming starts Monday on Tybee Island, 12 miles east of Savannah, and is expected to stretch into mid-August.

The Walt Disney Co. had considered making the film in North Carolina, but ultimately chose Georgia because the state offered a better incentive package. Local officials estimate the production will bring $8 million in direct spending to the area during the next two months.

Having Tybee Island's name on the screen — on signs for a beach festival and emblazoned on police cars and fire trucks — should make for an even bigger payday after the movie hits theaters in 2010, said Diane Schleicher, Tybee's city manager.

"When the film releases, the impact on the economy here is going to be immense," Schleicher said.

Still, there will be some drawbacks for the island's 3,400 residents.

Hampton said filmmakers will spend several days shooting at the island's fishing pier, which will mean closing the attraction to visitors periodically, and roadblocks will go up around the beach house being used as a location.

Tybee resident Monty Parks, who opened an Internet cafe near the pier a few months ago, said he hopes to sell plenty of lattes to the film crew and gawking tourists.

"If you're somebody who wants Tybee to stay out of the limelight, you're going to be broken-hearted," Parks said. "I think there's going to be a lot of people here. It's going to be great for me."

 

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- Posted on June 9, 2009
Submitted by kmorris on Thursday, 03/31/2011 - 08:23.

i do not like miley cyrus at all she is a brat, she has change a lot this year, and is a bad influence to little kids. when her movie the last song came out i just have to be honest i just loved that movie it was so so good and sad and just amazing. i whatched that movie 3x in one day, thats how great it was and she really played her parts really good, but other than that she is a very bad person.

Submitted by jolyr on Wednesday, 03/30/2011 - 06:49.

Ok,I Love Miley,She is really A Good role modle to my littler sister&me I know she has done a lot of bad stuff in her life,but she is GOOD...........

Submitted by alliana123 on Sunday, 01/16/2011 - 16:26.

i think miley cyrus is a really cool person and i like her movie it was really like a normal persons life and it was very emotinal but happy at the same time i love the way she was acting and i cant believe she actually fell in love with him in real life too.

Submitted by candy1919 on Monday, 01/10/2011 - 11:48.

i am sorry i actually very much dislike miley cyrus. She is such a want to be diva..i hate that she has that fake smile on. i actually saw half of the movie and it wasn't good at all, except for the hot guy in it...she tries too much too lose her good girl act!!!! oh..she cannot act..she really cannot act to save her life..seriously it looks all fake..

Submitted by ShanaM on Thursday, 02/17/2011 - 15:07.

Ok,I Love Miley,She is really A Good role modle to my littler sister&me I know she has doen a lot of bad stuff in her life,but she is GOOD!!! And This is My mind talking and that your mind but I think that a lot of people would DISLIKE this comment but yeh not thrying to be mean but that just how i feel so bye.

Submitted by Keiryc on Tuesday, 12/07/2010 - 13:43.

She looks Better Without her Wig i thought she was like 18 but she is only 16 and the movie is so good and when can she tell the truth

Submitted by 12monkey on Monday, 10/18/2010 - 12:18.

I love her but she is a good person and I hink everyone in the world showed watch the movie. I think she is getting to get allot of files.And she going to get rich.

Submitted by Myriam on Wednesday, 10/06/2010 - 07:54.

i don't like her but i love the movie
i don't think Ronnie's personality fits miley but she still did a good job
people should watch this movie

Submitted by heatherlynn0496 on Monday, 09/27/2010 - 10:06.

I personally don't like her but i love that movie...it is an amazing story...it is horrible what happens to her father near the end of the movie...all the people in the movie did a fantastic job! I would so tell people to buy this movie...2 thumbs up!

Submitted by pantherLF on Tuesday, 05/25/2010 - 10:39.

OMG I remember 1 year ago April 10, 2009. I when to the movies The first day in can out I was so like popcorn!!!! I went with my BFFL pantherHP. Well some one just had to come ''Oh I want to see it '' and that was only because I was going. pantherHP little brother CP. Oh well we all did have a blast even it was spost to be a girls day out!!!