Joining the protests against the new law in Georgia restricting voting rights, Apple and Will Smith will move the production of their upcoming film “Emancipation” out of the state, announced director Antoine Fuqua on Monday. 

This is set to be Hollywood first major project to exit the state, where a majority of the films are shot, since the signing of the controversial bill into law by Republican Governor Brian Kemp. 

“At this moment in time, the nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice. We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access,” Fuqua and Smith said in a statement, Washington Post reported.

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“Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state.”

“Emancipation,” a drama about slavery, will be moved to Louisiana, where some of the action takes place. The shooting is scheduled to begin in June.

Will Smith stars as Peter, an enslaved person who escapes a Louisiana plantation to join the Union Army. The rights to the film were bought for $130 million last year. 

Georgia has become one of the most popular places for studios to shoot their films and television series, with Disney, HBO, Netflix and others all shooting work there. 

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Under the new voting law, which follows subsequent Republican losses in the state, makes numerous changes to how elections will be administered, including a new photo ID requirement for voting absentee by mail.

Reportedly, it limits drop boxes, allows unlimited challenges to voter eligibility and registration, and ban voters waiting in queue to receive any water bottle or snacks.