The ONE Thing Conservatives Need in Today’s Hollywood

March 28, 2025 admin Celebrity Gossip, Fashion 0

I’m a straight, white Christian male writer/director in Los Angeles County. I just disqualified myself for 97 percent of the writing and directing jobs in Hollywood.

You can call me cowardly for writing this anonymously, and that’s fair. I should stand by my words because I’m an American who values his freedom of speech. Why hide what so many brave men and women have fought for?

Here’s why…

  1. I have two screenplays in preproduction with two separate studios based in the L.A. area. Contracts haven’t been signed yet, so things could fall apart at any moment. And considering the entertainment industry is in flames right now, I don’t want “this writer’s MAGAin’ me feel uncomfortable,” to be the reason anyone pulls the plug on either project.
  2. It’s simple: I. Never. Wanted. To. Be. Political. I just wanted to be a good storyteller. I want to tell stories of the working man, spectacle over boredom, preserving life over seeking death, persistence over victimhood and comedies that roast everyone over comedies that mock Democrat-approved targets. That used to just be “normal.” Now, it’s apparently far Right.

Maybe down the road when I have money and influence, I’ll be more open about being a non-Left storyteller, but it helps no one at this time.

Recently, Deadline announced that Tyler Perry launched The Dream Collective for Aspiring Filmmakers. Let me give you the gist: producer and billionaire Tyler Perry just announced he’s going to give five budding filmmakers $30,000 to make short films in Atlanta with Perry’s crew and resources.

And that’s a great thing! Giving developing filmmakers an opportunity to shoot their stories is a noble way for Perry to share his wealth and expertise. Here’s the problem: the aspiring filmmakers that The Dream Collective want in question? “Underrecognized (sic) and underrepresented voices.”

Oh, the diversity!

Here’s what diversity actually looks like in a Hollywood or Sundance room: the female Democrat, the black Democrat, the Latinx Democrat and Hamas. If you’re a multi-hyphenate Democrat, your chances of program entry go up.

And if (a BIG if) there’s a white guy, he’s waving the flag at the Pride parade.

I’ll eat my words if The Dream Collective actually gives filmmakers a shot based on their merit and hard work, but we all know exactly what they mean by “underrepresented voices.” I’ve been laughed out of every filmmaking fellowship, lab and opportunity since 2015 because I don’t come from an underrepresented demographic.

But okay, I’m misleading you a bit.

You CAN absolutely get into a Wokedance Lab or Kathleen Kennedy’s TV Writing Incubator if you’re a straight white guy. But your STORY must be about “underrepresented voices.”

After strenuously apologizing for your privilege in the application, your story has to be about a transgender illegal immigrant who crosses the U.S. border to get an abortion while fleeing from white mothers who want to burn porn in school libraries.

Also, throw in an Elon Musk or Ben Shapiro caricature somewhere.

RELATED: FOUR TIMES CONSERVATIVE ART GOT UN-CANCELED

Conservatives are the champions of complaining about (il)liberal movies, documentaries, television, award shows and art. But do you know what liberals do that we don’t?

FUND art.

They support the next generation of artists and storytellers. Who cares if the content they/them make is garbage? Liberals help out other liberals.

While you’re reading this, Netflix has already greenlit a live-action “Pokémon: Rings of Power.” And do you know who’s writing and directing it? The same progressives who made the 2027 $250 million-budgeted “Dirty Harry” reboot flop (star Chloë Grace Moretz refused to hold a gun).

Where’s our Tyler Perry? Where’s our Dream Collective? Where’s our non-woke Sundance Lab?

Who does the Right have? Mel Gibson? He’s just one man, and no one should bother him while he’s making “The Resurrection of the Christ.”

Zachary Levi? He’s a cool dude, and I want him to succeed, but he’s not a billionaire producer.

The Daily Wire? They’re just one company and most of their stuff is behind a paywall (side note: put your movies up for rent on Amazon; people will pay to see “Run Hide Fight” and “Terror on the Prairie” if made available to them).

The only thing that comes close to a conservative cultivation program is the Palladium Pictures Incubator, but it’s for short documentaries, not narrative film.

Also… have you even heard of this program before I told you? Has a single conservative influencer promoted it?

As a filmmaker who wants to tell traditional stories with heartland people, I feel s*** out of luck.

There are so many talented people who are passed over because we don’t want to tell tacky and exhausting Lefty stories. We don’t want to make crap like “Velma” or “Snow Shite” or “Shout Your Abortion: Electric Boogaloo.”

We want to entertain and enlighten.

But we need you conservative and moderate higher-ups to support the true underrepresented voices. We need non-diversity contingent fellowships, labs, film festivals and opportunities for traditional storytellers.

Liberal billionaires feel satisfied when they know they’ve made a difference in the world for their like-minded artists, I’ll bet you folks will, too.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m on my way to get turned down to write “The Screwtape Letters” adaptation for Peacock.

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