President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”
On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears to the moviemaking town.
“It will be again, like the United States of America, the Golden Age of Hollywood!”
He also called the special envoys of the trio. Special ambassadors and envoys are selected to meet the hot points in difficulty such as the Middle East, not in California.
In a press release provided to CBS News on Thursday, Gibson said that “I had received the tweet at the same time as all and so surprised. However, I have the call. My duty as a citizen is to give help and review that I can.
Gibson’s Malibu space destroyed in the wildfires that burned the Los Angeles region.
The production of American cinema and television has been hindered in recent years, with setbacks from the Covvi-19 Pandemia, the Hollywood guild reaches 2023 and, last week, the forest sets on fire in progress in the region of Los Angeles. In the United States, general production fell 26% compared to 2021, according to Data Produro.
In the largest region in Los Angeles, productions fell 5. 6% compared to 2023 according to Filmla, the lowest since 2020. Last October, the governor of California Gavin Newsom proposed to make the credits program to the film and television in California at $ 750 million a year, compared to $ 330 million. Other American cities such as Atlanta, New York, Chicago and San Francisco have used fiscal incentives to attract film and televised productions in their cities. Actor Mark Wahlberg even plans for a Middle production in Las Vegas.
It is not clear precisely what Gibson, Voight and Stallone will do in this effort to bring productions back to US representatives of Voight and Stallone did not respond to a request for comments.
Trump’s resolution to choose the actors, while their selected “ambassadors” underline their considerations with the eighties and 90 Greats of the world.
Stallone is a frequent guest at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and introduced him at a gala in November shortly after the election.
“When George Washington defended his country, he didn’t know it was going to replace the global one. Because without him, you can believe what the global would be like,” Stallone told the crowd: “Guess what?We had the moment when George Washington’s hiring!”
The resolution also reflects Trump’s preference for forgetting the questionable maxim statements of his supporters.
Gibson’s reputation has been altered in Hollywood since 2006, when he went on an antisemitic rant while being arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. But he’s also continued to work in mainstream movies and directed the upcoming Wahlberg thriller “Flight Risk.”
Voight is a long -time defender of Trump, who described Trump the biggest president from Abraham Lincoln.