Hawaii’s film industry just got a big break, as ABC television series “Marvel’s The Inhumans” will be filmed in the state.

The state confirmed Thursday that Disney’s ABC Television Group is set to film an adaptation of Marvel Comics’ “Inhumans” in Hawaii.

“We are excited that Disney/ABC and Marvel Television are bringing this project to Hawaii,” said Georja Skinner, head of the Creative Industries Division at the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Marvel Television, a unit of Marvel Entertainment, and Disney/ABC Television Group, said in November the companies plan to debut the ABC series’ first two episodes in IMAX theaters late this summer, and the weekly series will premiere in the fall. The series follows a race of superhumans first introduced in Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965.

Members of Hawaii’s film industry said the series will help build Hawaii’s reputation as a place to shoot productions and add local jobs.

“I think it’s huge,” said Jordan Kandell, a Honolulu- based producer who was one of the screenwriters for Disney’s “Moana.” “It will require hiring more and training more filmmakers, which will only lead to more experienced crews.”

Kandell said the ABC series could bring the same amount of jobs and exposure as six seasons of ABC’s “Lost,” from 2004 to 2010, brought to the islands.

“You look at something like the success of ‘Lost,’” he said. “It created hundreds of local jobs, but it also promotes Hawaii to other productions.”

The state’s film industry has experienced a decline in jobs over the last decade.

From 2005 to 2015 the number of jobs in the Film, TV, Video Production/Distribution sector fell 39 percent, according to a June report on Hawaii’s Creative Industries from DBEDT. There were 1,047 film industry jobs in the state in 2015.

Kandell said having another stable series headquartered in the state can help keep many members of the local film industry from leaving to follow more stable work on the mainland.

“It creates the opposite of a brain drain. It creates a brain gain for Hawaii,” Kandell said. “If it truly is a success, if it extends into a second season and beyond, it will be amazing for Hawaii.”

The series would make for the second episodic series currently being filmed in Hawaii, joining CBS Productions’ “Hawaii Five-0.” The reboot of the police drama that ran from 1968 to 1980 is in its seventh season of filming in the state.

“Hawaii is an ideal place for film and television production due to number of factors, which include our natural landscape, professional crew base and our film tax incentives, which we are focused on extending during this legislative session,” Skinner said.

Until Dec. 31, 2018, the Motion Picture, Digital Media and Film Production Income Tax Credit provides a rebate of 20 percent on qualified expenditures made on Oahu by a television or film production and 25 percent on expenditures on neighbor islands.

Since the tax credit was enacted in 2006, Hawaii has hosted major motion pictures including Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Paramount’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” and Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Godzilla.”

Most recently the fourth installment of “Jurassic Park,” called “Jurassic World,” was shot in Hawaii.