Hollywood director Paul Feig calls for more NI film studios

Hollywood director Paul Feig calls for more NI film studios

Northern Ireland's screen industry needs more film studios in order to grow, according to one of Hollywood's top directors.

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Paul Feig has directed The School for Good and Evil, which is being released next week.

The action-adventure with an all-star cast was filmed at Belfast's Harbour Studios and across Northern Ireland.

It is based on Soman Chainani's novels about a school where children learn to be fairy tale heroes and villains.

Speaking to BBC News NI, Feig said Northern Ireland needed more "stage space" to attract more big productions.

"It's a chicken-and-egg thing because you need more things coming in, in order to build more production space and sound stages," he said.

"But you could use more sound stages, definitely.

"Belfast Harbour studios is beautiful, but it's two giant stages and we could have used another stage."

He said the problem in the industry was that there is "so much production because it used to be all just movie studios but now it's the streamers".

"The streamers have taken over various studios in London and Budapest and all these places.

"If you can become the place that has all the stage space, has these great crews, great city to work in, that's going to make people start coming in."

Blade Runner 2099, a TV series based on the iconic Blade Runner films, is soon to be filmed in Northern Ireland.