Katt Williams’ dreams of being a movie mogul have taken him to Alabama, where the comedian purchased a former military base with the intention to launch a movie studio.
“I can’t disclose the amount or exact location just yet, but I can confirm that he has purchased a former military base in Alabama,” Williams’ publicist, Amy Sisoyev, said in an email Thursday to AL.com.
While the comedian is mum on the property he purchased, Fort McClellan’s Cold War-era barracks in Anniston have been up for sale at a $1.5 million asking price by the Luxe Group.
Known locally as “Starships,” the barracks and surrounding property consists of 30 concrete buildings with three million square feet of indoor space. There are 10 barracks with 20 rooms each, two large gymnasiums, and more than 90 acres of usable flat land on the old Ft. McClellan site.
Efforts to reach the Luxe Group and the McClellan Development Authority — a non-profit public corporation made to speed economic development of the former fort — were unsuccessful.
In an interview published by GQ on Wednesday, Williams said he purchased a former Alabama military base sometime this year.
The comedian’s January appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast “Club Shay Shay” holds the YouTube interview record with more than 83 million views. Williams put several entertainers, including Kevin Hart, Rickey Smiley and Tyler Perry, on blast.
In the GQ interview, told GQ he has ambitions of becoming a movie mogul à la Perry.
“It’s just not fair to put all that pressure on Tyler Perry,” he said. “He can only do so much.”
Williams was in Alabama earlier this year for stops on his ‘Dark Matter’ tour, where he performed sets in Huntsville, Birmingham and Mobile.
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