{"id":13299,"date":"2012-09-12T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=13299"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:22:27","slug":"utah-a-good-place-to-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/utah-a-good-place-to-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah a Good Place to Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13300 \" title=\"THE LONE RANGER\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger-500x351.jpg 500w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Depp plays Tonto, and Armie Hammer portrays the Lone Ranger, in Disney&#8217;s big-budget remake of &#8220;The Lone Ranger.&#8221; The movie, being filmed around the southwestern United States, opens in theaters in 2013. (courtesy Disney)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this month&#8217;s edition of 15 Bytes we mentioned that Utah is a good place for film, both making them and watching them. We still hold to the latter, but after someone brought this article to our attention, the former seems a little less sure. As the Moab Sun News reported in August, there was a dustup this summer between a BLM employee and a large Hollywood crew filming scenes for Disney&#8217;s upcoming <em>Lone Ranger <\/em>in the Professor Valley area near Moab.<\/p>\n<p>Since film crews bring in some much needed cash to rural communities, but also make a pretty big impact on the landscape, and tie up public lands from the public, one wonders if this will be the last standoff between the two interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s edition of 15 Bytes we mentioned that Utah is a good place for film, both making them and watching them. We still hold to the latter, but after someone brought this article to our attention, the former seems a little less sure. As the Moab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/loneranger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 12:42:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100525,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions\/100525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}