Tax Credits Made ‘Osage County’ An Oklahoma Success
‘Osage County’ producer says state’s film rebate program helped lure project to Oklahoma
BY GENE TRIPLETT
LOS ANGELES — George Clooney and Grant Heslov must have found evenings in Osage County conducive to creativity during their stay in the fall of 2012.
The writing/producing partners finished much of the work on the script for their new, fact-based World War II action drama “The Monuments Men” while on location in northeastern Oklahoma filming the screen adaptation of Sooner-born Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County.”
And Heslov has nothing but good things to say about their filmmaking experience in the Sooner State.
“George and I wrote a lot of this film while we were living in Oklahoma, in Bartlesville,” Heslov said in an interview promoting “The Monuments Men,” at the Four Seasons Hotel.