“The Last of Us,” based on a popular 2013 video game, features the town of Jackson in its storyline. Instead of filming in Jackson, however, a town in Canada was transformed into Wyoming for the series.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is unique in that it was set in Wyoming and actually filmed in Wyoming. But others shows like Longmire, Joe Pickett, and Outer Range, though set in Wyoming are filmed out-of-state.
A legislative committee will once again study a film incentive program for Wyoming after the Office of Tourism said Wyoming missed out on hit TV shows “Yellowstone” and “Joe Pickett” because there is no such incentive in the state.
The lack of a film incentive program in Wyoming was one of the reasons the production company behind the “Yellowstone” prequel series, “1883,” chose to not film in Natrona County last year.
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There’s a difference of opinion between two Chucks over the Wyoming Legislature’s decision not to introduce a bill this week that would have provided incentives for film and TV productions.
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As the last of the funding is drained from the Wyoming Office of Tourism’s Film Incentives Program, the state could see even less time on the silver screen.
Filming in Wyoming can be a hard sell for out-of-state companies such as Netflix and Thunder Road Films, which produced Wind River in 2017.
Wyoming’s Legislature may have missed an opportunity by killing a proposed film incentive program, according to an acclaimed Wyoming author.
A plan to draw film production companies to Wyoming with incentives died on a narrow House vote Thursday.
HB 164 would have created a program to allow the state to reimburse film companies for some of their expenses while filming in Wyoming. The reimbursement would only have gone into effect if the production company spent more than $200,000 in Wyoming.
A program designed to lure film production companies to Wyoming with incentives was sent on Wednesday for a final reading in Wyoming’s House.
