Texas Tempts Hollywood To Tell Red-State-Friendly Stories… By Speaking A Language Execs Can Understand

Pretty nearly every other industry has been moving from Cali to Texas… why not Hollywood, too?

The left has been leveraging Hollywood to hijack American culture since forever ago. Since ‘politics are downstream from culture’… Texas has put forward an idea for the right to regain some cultural influence.

Could it work? Well — maybe.

Here’s the idea:

Remember how the left pushed their vision of the culture by building big-budget stories around all the values they were trying to normalize in culture? Loser dads and successful single moms in the 80s and 90s. Will & Grace after that.

Red state voters and traditional Christianity? If they’re represented at all, they will show up as scolding kill-joys or the backward-looking losers that don’t understand how the world ‘really’ is. Anyone who served the military is either catastrophically jaded, or hiding in the bottom of a bottle… the would gladly give us anything but a well-adjusted hero we can look up to.

Those kind of stories may sell well in Commie-fornia. But if you want to make movies on sound stages in Texas, you had better learn how to tell a better story… or do it without taking tax dollars from the people you re trying to insult.

Texas has grand plans to take on Hollywood by offering generous tax rebates to film and TV makers – but only if they sprinkle their silver screen magic on the Lone Star State.
Texas has laid out a proposal to provide at least $1.5 billion over the next 10 years to lure producers to make their movies, shows, and even video games, in the state.
However, the money will only be made available if the projects show Texas in a positive light.
[…] Conservative lawmakers in the red state are unwilling to divert taxpayer dollars towards projects that could clash with religious values and cultural views on sex and profanity which they consider to be integral parts of Texas culture.
The plans have the backing of major stars such as Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, and Renée Zellweger.
It comes as Trump is trying to boost homegrown film production and has threatened to slap a tariff on productions made abroad. — DailyMail

That puts Hollywood in a hard place. They can ignore a market opportunity that will give competitors in the mold of ‘The Chosen’ (which is already filmed in Texas), The Daily Wire, and Angel Studios a window to make a (bigger) name for themselves and become a major player in an already cutthroat market.

Even having a choice (finally) when it comes to watching movies will give the public an opportunity to vote with their feet. We saw how the ‘unexpected’ success of A Sound of Freedom shocked the Hollywood types. It wouldn’t take too many more, especially after ‘King of Kings’ broke box office records for films of its genre.

Breaking box office records? While Disney and Marvel wonder where their mojo has gone?

Maybe the public is finally ready for a change.