![]() The government said the projects would contribute up to $621m in direct spending over five years provide work to 700 cast and crew employ 2,500 people directly on Metropolis and see 700 local businesses and service providers benefit. The federal location incentive program and the Victorian government’s screen incentive scheme boasted that they had attracted “one of the most technically ambitious film and television projects ever to film in Australia”. Under location incentive funding, the final payment is only made once final Australian expenditure is incurred on the production. The Victorian government says it is “disappointing” it won’t go ahead but the $41.6m incentive fee had not been paid yet. The Victorian government and the federal government chipped in $41.6m and $83.8m respectively in location incentive funding for a number of projects from NBC Universal’s UCP including Metropolis. ![]() ![]() The project had been attracted to film at Melbourne’s Docklands Studios by funding incentives from Australian state and federal governments. The Guardian film reviewer Peter Bradshaw called it “a crazed futurist epic” and a “dystopian nightmare about a city-state built on slave labour, whose prosperity depends on suppressing a mutinous underground race whose insurrectionist rage is beginning to bubble”. ![]() Metropolis is considered by many critics as one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, dealing with themes such as class conflict, industrialisation and the perils of mechanised modernity. ![]()
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