Angelina Jolies father Jon Voight pitches wild plan to Trump to turn Hollywood MAGA after he was named special ambassador
Hollywood royalty Jon Voight has already got to work on bringing MAGA to liberal Los Angeles in his role as a special ambassador to Tinseltown for Donald Trump.
Hollywood royalty Jon Voight has already got to work on bringing MAGA to liberal Los Angeles in his role as a special ambassador to Tinseltown for Donald Trump.
The Oscar-winner and father to starlet Angelina Jolie is part of a triumvirate of titans from the silver screen tasked with saving the film industry, alongside Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone.
Voight has been an outspoken Trump backer. Trump awarded him the National Medal of Arts during his first term.
After The LA Times reported Tuesday that theyre still waiting for a call from the three screen legends, Bloomberg discovered that Voight and manager Steven Paul are set to present their master plan to Trump as soon as next week.
What theyre working on goes beyond telling studios to cut down on woke content and more offering packages of tax breaks to film things in Hollywood again.
Its important that we compete with whats going on around the world so there needs to be some sort of federal tax incentives, Paul said.
They want to incentivize improvements made all over Hollywood, including improvements to existing infrastructure and job training as well.
Paul has noticed that states have begun to compete with one another to get things filmed in their territory so they may ask for a national program to keep production in America.
Hollywood royalty Jon Voight (pictured) has already gotten to work on bringing MAGA to to liberal Los Angeles in his role as a special ambassador to Tinseltown for Donald Trump
Voight has been an outspoken Trump backer. Trump awarded him the National Medal of Arts during his first term
Its been very, very difficult here. Were feeling the cries of people in town, Paul added.
A specific idea they may pitch to Trump, who has made several cameos in Hollywood films prior to his time in politics, is to adjust a part of the US tax code to allow faster deductions for Hollywood studios beyond the current $15million limit.
Voight and Paul have met with studio executives, unions and state officials to add to their ides, SP Media Group President Scott Karol said.
Theyre also likely to ask Trump to reward studios that build new infrastructure for filming with tax breaks.
The group has pointed to New Jersey, which gave a 40 percent rebate to Netflix to build a massive sound stage in the Garden State.
Paul is taking the effort seriously on his own part, moving productions of three upcoming films from overseas back to Los Angeles.
It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California, he wrote on Truth Social.
Voight (pictured left), Mel Gibson (pictured right) and Sylvester Stallone have been named special ambassadors to Hollywood
Trump announced the Special Ambassadors positions days before his inauguration
They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!
These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!
All have been seen in Trumps orbit recently. Stallone introduced Trump at Mar-a-Lago for his first speech after winning the election in November.
Gibson revealed his support for Trump in a video days before the election – while also going negative and unloading on VP Kamala Harris.
I know what itll be like if we let her in. And that aint good. Miserable track record. No policies to speak of. Shes got the IQ of a fence post, Gibson said.
The Road Warrior and The Passion of the Christ star said he was ashamed of his comments after he was caught on tape giving an antisemitic rant in 2006 during a DUI arrest following a traffic stop.
All three provided vital Hollywood support to Trump during an election campaign where Harris was mopping up celebrity endorsements and campaign contributions.
Although he called Hollywood a troubled place, Trumps statement did not directly refer to the fires ravaging parts of Los Angeles and forcing mass evacuations.
In addition to the human toll and massive property loss, the destruction has drawn cost estimates as high as $250 million, and even the Oscars are in doubt this season.
The L.A. film industry has been losing job share to other parts of the U.S., amid competing film incentive programs and high living costs there.
The industry has also contended with the COVID pandemic, strikes, and foreign competition.
Production in the Greater L.A. area dropped 5 percent in the third quarter of last year in a lackluster performance, according to Film L.A.
The box office take last year dropped to $8.7 billion, down 3 percent from the year before, Variety reported.