{"id":563,"date":"2007-02-19T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=563"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:44","slug":"huntsville-alabama-hollywood-down-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville, Alabama–Hollywood Down South"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is almost a European-like energy here where everyone was not just friendly, but engaged. I suddenly had this revelation that what I had put on page actually existed and it was Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n

–Jordan Walker-Pearlman, director of the movie “Constellation”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My first exposure to Huntsville, Alabama<\/a> was in the James Michener<\/a> novel Space<\/em><\/a>. Having previously lived in Birmingham and Nashville prior to moving to Huntsville in 1993, I can recall thinking that my\"space-and-rocket-center.jpg\" adopted hometown was just a touch too tame. I mean after you’ve visited the U.S. Space and Rocket Center<\/a> and stood at the base of that 363 foot Saturn V rocket which sits beside I-565, what else is there to do?<\/p>\n

Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. Huntsville is growing by leaps and bounds and has attracted the attention of high tech industries and government as well as a few Hollywood movie producers. The movie “Constellation”<\/a> is the latest to have been filmed in Huntsville and opened on February 2nd with a gala premiere at the Hollywood 18 Theater. I have the day off today and plan to grab Eyegal and take her to see that one. Who knows? Maybe we accidentally stumbled into a scene and didn’t even know it.<\/p>\n

Of course, this isn’t the first time that Hollywood has turned to Rocket City, U.S.A. for “European-like energy” to help fuel one of its movies. Among others that have been filmed in or around Huntsville are:<\/p>\n