MORE ON THE ROCK STARRING IN DISNEY MOVIE
- 12/30/2005 (7:29:08 pm)
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The Boston Herald is spilling the beans about Walt Disney pictures "Daddy's Girl" starring The Rock.
Far be it for us to spill the beans on anything, but word’s out that producers from Walt Disney Pictures are eyeing the Bay State for “Daddy’s Girl,” a $50 million family comedy starring The Rock.
We hear that Mickey’s movie peeps, who were lured here by the newly passed film tax incentive package, would begin shooting here in March should Massachusetts get the nod.
Mark Drago of the Mass. Sports & Entertainment Commission said he’s spoken with the producers of the film and that the commonwealth is a front-runner as a filming locale.
“I’m thrilled that all the Legislature’s hard work over the past year appears to be paying off,” Drago told the Track. “The film industry in Massachusetts is about to receive a much-needed shot in the arm.”
No kidding. If the tax incentive package was around last year, “The Departed” director, Martin Scorsese, would have shot all of his Boston Irish mob flick here instead of spending most of his movie bucks in the Big Apple where pols granted him tons of tax immunity!
In “Daddy’s Girl,” The Rock (aka Dwayne Johnson) will star as a trash-talkin’ NFL party boy whose charmed celebrity life gets sacked when a 5-year-old girl turns up — bearing a birth certificate with his name on it.
Think “Baby Boom” meets “The Pacifier.”
The feel-good flick is being developed by Gordon Gray and Mark Giardi, who also produced a pair of other Disney flicks — “Miracle” and “The Rookie.” Kathryn Price, a writer for the short-lived reality TV series “The Mole,” and Nichole Millard wrote the screenplay.
So, as always, do stay tuned.
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