The station quotes state Senate majority leader Randy Richardville, who revealed that the celebrated Hollywood filmmaker is negotiating with Governor Rick Snyder's administration to base the production in Michigan.
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“You could be hearing something very, very exciting over the next couple of weeks, " Richardville says in the report.
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The senator added that the administration doesn't want to repeat what happened with "Iron Man 3, " which headed elsewhere after Michigan lost a tax-rebate bidding war with North carolina.
Richardville didn't divulge any more details, so it's not certain whether Spielberg would be a director or producer on the film. He was a credited producer for "Real Steel" and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon, " both of which filmed in the Detroit area ("Transformers" shot partially in Chicago, as well).
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According to the Internet Movie Database, Spielberg has one directorial effort in pre-production, a sci-fi film called "Robopocalypse. " His upcoming production credits include "When Worlds Collide" and "Jurassic Park IV, " the latter being more rumor than confirmed project.
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The filmmaker is currently shooting Abraham Lincoln biopic "Lincoln" in Virginia with star Daniel Day-Lewis.
In 2011, because of Snyder's capping of the film-production tax incentive, Michigan has been passed over by several big movies, including "The Avengers" and Christopher Nolan's third Batman film.
Notably, "Oz: The great and Powerful, " from Detroit-born director Sam Raimi, is currently under production at Pontiac's Raleigh Studios, but was approved prior to the cap.