Impact Detroit Magazine Impact Detroit Holiday Issue 2013 | Page 12

We selected the city of Detroit for two reasons.
It made sense creatively because Detroit is the
genius of Motown which is the soundtrack of
America. Given the music in the story it was a
perfect fit to set it in Detroit. The tax incentive
in being able to shoot more film and a higher
quality film made Detroit an added value. The
tax break gave us the money back which
became a benefit to the production so it was
those two aspects that made Detroit seem like it
was the right place to film.
The venues in Detroit were great and authentic
to the story. The venues were selected based on
the scenes in the script. The director, line

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production executive, producer location
manager had to find the right locations to help
bring the script to life. It took only a week
select the venues.

Our remake was inspired by the original Sparkle
(1976). The biggest change was not killing
Sister. We wanted to keep her alive and have her

When it comes to the casting of Sparkle, a
tremendous amount of conversation, time and
consideration was given to finding the right
people for each and every single role. It was
very important for us to do this. We felt we had
a stellar cast which we were so proud of.
Twinkie Bird was the casting director.