Jennifer Wolfe:

Now it appears the director is building a work-around designed to keep at least a portion of the movie's production closer to home. According to THR, Abrams -- who has shot all of his films in Los Angeles (he even personally covered some of Star Trek Into Darkness' costs in order to keep production local)

I think the directors are going to play a huge part in fixing the film industry. Its not just post artists that are feeling the outsourcing. Many of my friends that work in production haven't worked on anything large in Los Angeles in a long time. Traveling to go shoot somewhere that the studios get free money. Many of them have family that they leave for months.

The directors that can pull on the studios should start. It didn't take long for Disney to have second thoughts about pushing JJ around.

To be a fly on the wall.