WGN’s Underground runs from Baton Rouge to film in Atlanta.
According to WAFB, police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, say an officer fatally shot 37-year-old Alton Sterling while responding to a report of a man threatening someone with a gun early Tuesday morning.
A shocking bystander video appearing to show the deadly confrontation later surfaced online. In the video, which is shown below, a man can be seen tackled by two officers. As one officer pins one of the man’s arms, a voice shouts, “He’s got a gun!”
According to Come Tour Georgia, WGN’s most watched scripted series in history is leaving Baton Rouge to film outside of Atlanta, Georgia.
Underground follows a group of slaves who plan a daring escape from a Georgia plantation to cross 600 miles to freedom, aided along the way by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad, as they evade those tasked with bringing them back, dead or alive. Underground features Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, and Jessica De Gouw. On April 25, 2016 WGN America renewed the show for a 10-episode second season.
Was it Alton Sterling‘s death? The Black Lives Matter movement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? Or was it Georgia’s luxurious film tax credits? Either way, Georgia has a new TV show filming in the Peach State.
Stay tuned for more casting calls, job opportunities, and entertainment news for Underground season 2.
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