Nick Searcy: Here’s How Trump’s Special Ambassadors to Hollywood Could Shake Up the Industry
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That's a funny thing about the conservative side of filmmaking, the conservative side of Hollywood.
What happens is you get people like John Voight, Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson who have such big stars that it doesn't matter, right?
Their conservatism is not going to affect them.
Maybe it will affect them with certain people, but they're never going to be hurting for work.
They've kind of made it.
There's not a big movement on the conservative side to help out conservatives that are lower down on the ladder.
What could they do?
Well, people with that kind of power, I mean, with that kind of star power, they could form a studio.
They, you know, it's been done in the past, you know, United Artists, you know, that kind of thing, they could they could have enough money and power that they could pull together a studio because that's what's needed.
You know, that's why Netflix and Amazon is able to turn out so many videos films.
They have pooled their resources so that they're making the kinds of films that support what they believe in.
We don't do that.
Conservatives are afraid of investing in films because basically it's a bad investment.
Chances are you're going to lose your money.
So what we have to do, if we really want to compete, is create a system where we have, we're able to make ten films and maybe one of them makes enough money to float the other nine.
That's what they do.
So I wish that they would use their star power and their influence to build something like that, but I don't think they will.