SHORT TAKES : Venezuela OKs Spielberg Film
Venezuela granted Steven Spielberg the right to film in a fragile ecosystem but set conditions that the Hollywood director may not accept, officials said Wednesday.
Spielberg is trying to win the right to film 30 days worth of scenes in a projected Walt Disney film titled “Aracnophobia” in the restricted and fragile Gran Sabana area of southern Venezuela, home to dozens of plant and animal species that occur nowhere else on the planet, said Environment Ministry spokesman Luis Gonzalez.
No date has been set for the film shoot, but the Environment Ministry set conditions it was not sure Spielberg and Walt Disney would accept.
Certain scenes must be filmed from the air only, and only a limited amount of personnel and equipment will be allowed into the area, home to unique land formations known as tepuys, raised mesas that loom out of the jungle, Gonzalez said.
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