“I just couldn’t imagine living anywhere else now.”
One of those full-time islanders, Kevin Carr, has been living on the island for three years. There are even a few semi-fulltime residents who live in RVs at one end of the island year-round. The island has also become an event destination and hosts several weddings and other events each year. Today’s visitors are a mix of local fishermen, kayakers and campers, photographers taking engagement, senior or prom portraits and curious out-of-towners who’ve heard about the place on Facebook or other social media and want to visit the town before it fades back into the landscape.
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“We were invited to be there the evening they filmed the scene when everyone was dancing on the street, and it was truly a magical experience,” she says.Īfter the filming wrapped up, the original intent was for the production crew to return the island to its original state, but after more consideration the family decided to have the temporarily-built sets remain, as a curiosity.įor the first few years there was little interest in the former movie set, but as social media increased in popularity so did the number of visitors coming to see the Big Fish set, Lynn Bright says. She said their family all marveled at the transformation of the sleepy little island into a busy movie set and at the attention to detail in every aspect of the project, from the “motorized tree limbs” in the mystical forest to the selections of authentic period products to be displayed in the town’s storefront windows. A ‘magical experience’Ĭonstruction of the town, “Jenny’s House” and an enchanted forest used for the movie took about six months, according to Lynn Bright, before shooting began. In 2002 when Burton was looking for a location for the fictional town in his movie, it was already on an Alabama Film Commission’s list of sites, and they reached an agreement to lease his production company the island for the duration of the movie shoot. Her father, Leon Clardy, built the causeway that connects the island to the mainland and began offering memberships to those wanting to fish, boat or otherwise use the island for recreation shortly thereafter. Lynn and Bobby Bright now own the island that Lynn’s parents originally purchased in the early 1970s. The resulting Bob Woodruff Lake elevated the Alabama River’s level to allow passage through an inlet from the river to Jackson Lake, simultaneously creating the island. Henry Lock and Dam was built in the mid-1970s more than 80 miles downstream. Jackson Lake Island wasn’t even an island before the Robert F. But now more and more people are making pilgrimages from around the country and around the world to this 60-acre island to see Spectre before it’s gone.
Today, 13 years after the film crews left the island, the remnants of Spectre’s buildings are slowly being reclaimed by nature and some have already had to be taken down due to safety concerns. The film’s theme of reconciliation between a father and his estranged son, and Burton’s unique storytelling style that included an enchanted forest, the surreal town of Spectre, giants and witches, has made it a beloved tale for thousands of fans. The idyllic town of Spectre was constructed among live oaks draped in Spanish moss on Jackson Lake Island near Millbrook as a movie set for Tim Burton’s 2003 fantasy film “Big Fish.” Not far from the state capital, on a teardrop-shaped island just off the Alabama River’s main channel, a mythical town where no one ever actually lived and that never really existed is today enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Mythical movie town of Spectre enjoys resurgence
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