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After the failure to make their bold Fremantle Harbour proposal fly Home Fire Creative Industries have come up with what appears to be a viable plan for a movie studio in Malaga.

Rising star Mark Coles Smith has big boots to fill in Mystery Road’s origin story, which is like Spider-Man or Superman “without the comic book element”.

The studio will consist of four soundstages, offices, construction space, parking, set storage and other amenities. What stunned the film community and surprised the port city was where the government and its commercial partner, Home Fire Creative Industries, chose to locate it: not on the fringes of the metropolitan area, where such facilities tend to be found, but smack in the middle of a working port and a cherished heritage precinct. If all goes to plan (no dates have been announced but it�...