Additional light has been launched Donald Trump's desire to impose prices on foreign manufacturing films, with Jon Voight would have provided the president with a partial roadmap to help the Hollywood film industry.
Sunday (May 4), Trump went to social networks to mark the production of foreign films a “national security threat”.
Publish on his own site, Social truthThe American president wrote: “The film industry in America dies from a very rapid death. Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to remove our filmmakers and studios from the United States. Hollywood and many other areas in the United States are devastated.
“This is a concerted effort of other nations and, therefore, a national security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Consequently, I authorize the Ministry of Commerce, and the commercial representative of the United States, to immediately start the process of institutioning a 100% price on all the films that enter our country which are produced in foreign land.
“We want films made in America, once again!”
Jon Voight and Donald Trump outside the oval office in January 2020 (Getty Images)
The controversial details were rare after Trump's diatribe, but Deadline Now reported that a team made up of Voight, Steven Paul special advisor and SP Media Group / Atlas Comics, President Scott Karol, submitted a proposal to Trump in his seaside resort of Mar-A-Lago, detailing how the production of films in the United States can be stimulated.
Their idea would imply federal tax incentives, tax code changes, co-production treaties with other countries, as well as infrastructure subsidies for cinema owners, film and television production companies and post-production companies. The trio plan also includes notes on vocational training and “rates in certain limited circumstances”.
In a Video published on X / TwitterVoight, who was appointed as one of the Trump “Special ambassadors” In Hollywood, said: “Our industry has recently suffered in recent years, and many Americans have lost jobs because of the productions that have gone abroad.”
Stressing the seriousness of the situation, Voight added that “people have lost their house” and “cannot feed their family”.
“The president loves entertainment affairs and this country, and he will help us make Hollywood Grand again,” said Voight, who won an Oscar in 1979 for his performance in Go home.
In addition to Voight's comments, Deadline According to Paul, Paul said: “The American film industry and Hollywood is a lighthouse to teach the American dream in the world and is an engine for employment growth and career opportunity. It is essential that we preserve American leadership in film and televised production.”
Karol has echoed these reflections, declaring: “We have spent months meeting the main leaders of the film and television industry, and there is a broad agreement that fleeing production has become a serious problem that must be addressed now. This plan is to level the playing field so that production here in America is not only a competitive option but the first choice. ”
Sunday, the White House seemed to play the gravity of the prices, with the spokesperson Kush Desai Hollywood Reporter: “Although no final decision on the prices of foreign films have been made, the administration explores all the options to deliver President Trump's directive to protect the national and economic security of our country while making Hollywood Grand again.”
At the time of writing, no meeting between Trump and studio producers have been planned. A source said Deadline: “We do not even know when this is supposed to happen – it was occurred this morning when Trump made the announcement.”
