A proposed bill to build a major movie studio in Massachusetts could spur the economy, entice Hollywood executives into the area with tax incentives and provide steady work for locals in the entertainment industry, said legislation supporters.

Gov. Deval Patrick is considering the bill to construct a 1,000-acre film studio in Weymouth that could attract the attention of large film distributors like Columbia Pictures and Fox Searchlight, the bill’s supporters told the Associated Press.

Rep. Ronald Mariano, a Democrat whose district includes Weymouth, submitted the bill, which would commission space for the studio to be built where a naval air station once stood, in February. The studio project would include a facility with one or more sound stages and facilities used primarily for staging and filming motion picture, television or digital productions, according to the legislation.

The project, originally intended for upstate New York, would boost the commonwealth’s economy, said Mariano spokeswoman Lauren Katims. Few counter-arguments to the benefits of a Weymouth studio have made yet, and supporters are confident the measure will pass, she said.

Building a studio appears expensive on paper, but the bill’s tax incentives and job opportunities for stagehands, producers, artists and actors will “entirely” compensate for costs, she said.

“This is the sequel to Hollywood we’re working on,” Katims said.

Independent filmmaker and actor Dennis Hurley said the studio would give Boston-area film professionals used to subsisting on freelance work more “appropriate” jobs with higher wages.

“A studio would bring about the potential for a steady job as well as the prospect of pitching my own ideas to someone with actual filmmaking experience,” he said.

Hurley said the Weymouth studio would expand Boston’s tourism industry and attract Southern California film-industry executives to New England’s scenic regions.

“Hollywood now has an opportunity to use one of the most naturally beautiful places in the world as a backdrop for its films,” Hurley said. He said the new studio will spur growth in Massachusetts’s film community and economy, resulting in more tourists and film crews migrating to Boston.

Actor Chuck Slavin, based in the New England area, said Weymouth’s central location is prime for a studio and will create “hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars.”

Poor facilities in New England make a studio like Weymouth necessary, Salvin said. In his experience, crews have had to stop production if it rained because the warehouses were not properly equipped for sound.

The strong underground film community will get a chance to demonstrate talent in the Northeast, Salvin said, and he predicted a completed film studio in New England by 2009.

“‘Beanywood’ could become a reality.” Slavin said.