

Jon Voight has a proposal to “make Hollywood great again.” Specifics on the plan the Oscar-winner and Special Ambassador to Hollywood presented to President Donald Trump were previously kept under wraps. Plans were revealed “to see Hollywood thrive and make films bigger and greater than ever before, as he says, and see productions come back to America and Hollywood,” as Voight said Monday.
We now know everything Voight put in front of Trump and some of the studios and streamers over the past week, TV is included as well. The Midnight Cowboy star is seeking a 10%-20% federal tax credit that would be “stackable” on what states such as California (which takes a drubbing in Voight’s document), Georgia, and New York, already provide. On the other hand, there is a hammer that will come down. If a U.S.-based production “could have been produced in the U.S., but the producer elects to produce in a foreign country and receives a production tax incentive therefor[e], a tariff will be placed on that production equal to 120% of the value of the foreign incentive received,” the proposal given to Trump exclaims.
This follows Voight, his special advisor Steven Paul, and SP Media Group/Atlas Comics President Scott Karol sitting down with unions, government officials, and executives around town earlier in the year. Voight’s plan was handed to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, the day before POTUS went online and declared he was seeking “a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” In response, California Gov. Gavin Newsom late last night urged Trump to get behind a $7.5 billion national incentive program.
A video of Voight describing his meetings, including with Trump, was uploaded on X by Deadline. Outside of direct incentives, Voight’s proposal includes streamers as well. In the proposal, he pitches a significant ownership between streamers like Netflix and producers. A return to the shuttered Financial Interest and Syndication Rule is suggested with the hope of overturning what Voight calls “Draconian licensing terms.” Voight and team want eligible productions to “meet a minimum threshold AMERICAN ‘Cultural Test.” Similar measures are used in the UK and Canada.
The proposal says it “applies to content produced for theatrical distribution; U.S. broadcast networks; U.S. cable channels; streaming services (including, e.g., Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple, Peacock, Paramount+ and Hulu); and digital platforms (e.g., YouTube, YouTube TV, X, Facebook),” meaning it essentially applies to everyone.
To read the full proposal and see what Voight wants MAGA Trump to do to MHGA, click here.
