2025-07-15
9 分钟The first movie Aaron Moore had ever saw in theaters was Jurassic Park.
I think it was rated not for five-year-olds, but my parents let me see it.
Aaron ended up going to film school, and then he moved to Los Angeles.
He and a couple of collaborators started making independent horror and sci-fi movies together.
There's a little plot twist in Aaron's career journey, though.
He's based in LA, but he shot his movies elsewhere.
Take his 2014 film Spring,
about a traveler who gets involved with a woman who turns out to be a mutant.
That movie was shot in southeast Italy.
And they found her dead body in Sicily.
Or take Aaron's 2019 movie Synchronic.
This one is about two paramedics investigating a new drug that alters people's perception of time.
It was shot in New Orleans.
Both projects had story reasons to shoot where they did.
But just as important were the economic reasons.
Aaron got incentives from Italy and New Orleans.
And this kind of story has been playing out across the industry.
Film and TV production has shifted from Hollywood to other states and countries.
This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Darren Woods.