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Margaret
Mitchell Joins Zombies in Atlanta
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Pulitzer prize-winning
author guides new Gone With the Wind movie tour
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Atlanta,
GA – May 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Tour the streets of Atlanta with
a zombie from “The Walking Dead.” Explore “Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s”
District 12. Chat with Margaret Mitchell next to her own tombstone. The
newest “Hollywood backlot” tour developed and offered by Atlanta
Movie Tours (AMT) is Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind.
Featuring
actress Sally Smith in the role of the famous author, the three-hour tour
spotlights the Atlanta Margaret knew and loved and wrote about. Visit www.AtlantaMovieTours.com
for tour details and reservations.
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Hundreds
of movies and TV shows have been filmed in and around Atlanta, including
“Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Blind Side,” “What to Expect When You’re
Expecting,” “The Change-Up,” “Kalifornia” and “Driving Miss Daisy.” Sites
from these movies and others – Tyler Perry’s “Good Deeds” and “Witness
Protection” and a sports smorgasbord including “Trouble with the Curve,”
“Remember the Titans” and “We Are Marshall” – may be seen on AMT’s Atlanta
Film Sites Tour. The newest tour lets visitors travel with Margaret Mitchell
and hear the story of “Gone With the Wind” as only she can tell it.
Describing
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind Tour as “a Broadway play on wheels”(wheels
referring to the 30-passenger luxury touring vans), Patti Davis, Head Television
Fanatic and co-founder of the three-year-old Atlanta Movie Tours, promises
it will satisfy even the most ardent Gone With the Wind fan.
“You’ll
see Atlanta through Margaret’s eyes,” she says. “Sally Smith is a one-woman
tour de force.”
Learn
about Margaret’s life and how the South’s most beloved novel was shared
with the world. Walk with her as she traces her own footsteps to The Margaret
Mitchell House where she wrote her masterpiece, the library that has her
old Remington typewriter and her final resting place.
Margaret
Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind Tour joins the company’s popular lineup,
including Big Zombie Tours, Part 1 and Part 2. On these, “The Walking Dead”
fans journey to the hospital where it all began and to the Goat Farm (a
fan favorite) to see firsthand where the Vatos held camp. Zombie wannabes
can even test their strength at the Zombie Arena. Leading the way? A movie
extra from either “The Walking Dead” or “Zombieland.”
Atlanta
Movie Tours gives visitors a front-row seat to Hollywood’s backlot in Georgia
– where 142 feature films and television projects were produced in 2013
alone – to bring the rich film history of the Atlanta area alive. Aboard
the coach, fans watch film clips of the movie locales they will then see
“in action” to enhance the experience of visiting where pivotal scenes
were shot.
Tour
guides are experienced actors who have appeared on the sets of these movies
or, in the case of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, are completely
immersed in the character. Their behind-the-scenes stories, fun facts and
movie trivia give a glimpse of Hollywood you won’t experience anywhere
else.
To
learn more about Atlanta Movie Tours’ Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the
Wind Tour, the Atlanta Film Sites Tour and the Big Zombie Tours Part 1
and Part 2, visit www.AtlantaMovieTours.com.
Tours are three hours long and cost $65 per person. Vouchers for Margaret
Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind Tour will also gain participants entry to
the Road To Tara Museum in Jonesboro and the Marietta Gone With The Wind
Museum, as well as re-entry to The Margaret Mitchell House at no extra
charge (a $44.95 value).
Sally
Smith as Margaret Mitchell is available for interviews, as are AMT guides
who worked as extras in various movies and TV shows and company founders
Carrie Sagel Burns and Patti Davis. Contact Davis
(855-255-3456 (FILM) x2) to arrange.
Media
Contacts:
Patti
Davis, Head Television Fanatic
Carrie
Sagel Burns, Chief Movie Buff
855-255-3456
(FILM) x2
Photo
Shown:
Learn
the behind-the-scenes stories about the writing of Gone With the Wind from
the famous author herself: Margaret Mitchell.
Credit:
Atlanta Movie Tours (Photo by Travis Taylor)
Hi-
and Low-Res Images Available.
About
Atlanta Movie Tours
With
over 700 movies and over 20 television shows shot here since 1972, the
impact of the film industry continues to grow in Georgia, making Atlanta
a favorite of filmmakers and fans alike. Our tours bring the rich film
history of the area alive, transporting you on luxury coaches that show
film clips of the locations you will see “in action” to enhance the experience
of visiting where pivotal scenes were shot. We research every location
thoroughly to unearth a ton of fun facts that will please even the most
demanding and hardcore fans. Our tour guides are experienced actors who
have appeared on these sets and share fascinating behind-the-scenes stories
you won’t hear anywhere else. (www.AtlantaMovieTours.com) |
