FILMMAKERS working on the big budget thriller Triangle have started building a 55m, three-storey-high replica ocean-liner at The Spit. Producer Chris Brown said the set would take about two months to build before the cast and crew could come aboard to begin filming.

The $18 million feature film is set inside the Bermuda Triangle and the Southport Seaway is being used as the backdrop.

“We’re building the set in the water so we will be shooting against real ocean instead of using loads of CGI (computer generated imagery),” he said.

“You could say it’s an old fashioned way of doing it but it’s going to give you a more authentic look and feel because you’re among the elements — you’ve got the sea, the wind and birds flying around so it will look twice as good. “It’s going to be pretty huge and it will probably become a tourist attraction.”

Brown said most of the action would take place on the deck.