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Dave Burgess at the Dom Post reports:

A Wellywood sign to celebrate the capital’s film industry will be built along the hillside next to the Miramar Cutting.

The Hollywood-style sign will be 3.5 metres high and 28m wide. It is understood to cost several hundred thousand dollars and is intended to be ready for the Rugby World Cup in September.

Veteran Wellington film director Geoff Murphy could barely stop laughing when told yesterday that the idea would proceed.

“We had a film industry well before this Wellywood bullshit was going on. I think it’s f …ing stupid. It is copying a foreign, bullshit glamour idea and it’s the pits of what people can aspire to.”

It is all those things and more. I hate it. It is pathethic and wannabe. I don’t know anyone in Wellington who wants it. The airport company should concentrate on safer runways and not spend passengers money on such stuidities.

Have they not listened to the tens of thousands who said no? Can they cite anyone in favour who is not a member of their “creative” team?

It will be interesting if they can get the sign insured. They may need to build 30 metre high walls around it, to keep it safe.

It’s so embarrassing to almost make me want to move to Auckland.

You can join the Facebook group against.

Or even better send an e-mail to the Airport, and tell them your views directly.