Next week, it will be take 2 for Deja Vu in New Orleans.

The Denzel Washington thriller will be the first Hollywood movie to start production in the decimated city since Hurricane Katrina hit in August, says the Louisiana Governor's Office of Film and Television.

The Disney film had been scheduled to shoot there in October, but production was canceled after the storm breached levees, flooding the low-lying city.

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott said Thursday that they decided to wait for the region to recover instead of seeking another host city. The hard part was keeping their star, but Bruckheimer says Washington did it as an act of goodwill.

"When you shift start dates, it (messes up) with people's schedules, but Denzel is a very socially conscious individual who felt that once we picked that location, he wanted to stick with it, too," says Bruckheimer, who last year oversaw production in New Orleans on Glory Road.

Meanwhile, the script was rewritten to include the hurricane aftermath as part of the story. Washington plays a government agent who becomes unstuck in time and falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.