Even though the series was set at the Lake, it wasn’t filmed there—or even in Missouri! Instead, was shot in Atlanta, Georgia, around the Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier area. That filming location was chosen for tax incentives. After the southern state lost the production for Ray, a biopic on soul musician and Georgia native …
On February 26, 2016, Netflix announced it would be doing a new television series starring Jason Bateman. “Ozark” was to be a “dark drama” set and filmed around the Lake of the Ozarks. Missouri laws made filming here prohibitive so it was played out in Georgia.
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