New studios, big ambitions: Actor plans Bastrop studio amid Texas film boom
25 Aug 2025
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Central Texas is rapidly emerging as a hub for film production with major developments and strategic investments either already established or in the works.
For Bastrop, its location is attracting new projects like Wyldwood Studios—a 75-acre development spurred by actor Zachary Levi, who aims to establish the latest alternative to Hollywood.
“We must create a place that is valuing the excellence of entertainment and that is valuing the artists who are making that entertainment,” he said in a statement uploaded to the Wyldwood Studios website. “It’s not just building a better place for people to work. It also means that you have to give people better lives.”
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