Actor Mark Wahlberg, who packed up his family and moved from the no-longer-Golden State of California to Las Vegas in the fall of 2022 for a “better life,” now wants to create a better life for filmmaking in Las Vegas as well. Can the action hero actor pull it off? If anyone can do it, I’d put my money on Wahlberg.

Wahlberg lobbied Nevada state lawmakers on Wednesday to pass a bill that would increase tax credits for film production from $10 million per year to a whopping $190 million per year over the next 20 years.

The actor told CNBC he shot his last film in Vegas and plans to shoot a second one there this summer:

I would love to see us building studios, creating jobs, and just diversifying the economy. I’ve moved my last film here. I’m shooting another film here coming up in the summertime. I think there’s so much more opportunity to be created here.

There’s so much growth and so much potential, it’s a wonderful opportunity for everybody to prosper. … We want to create a lot of jobs, and a lot of excitement. Hollywood 2.0.

In an interview earlier this year, the devout Christian explained his move to Vegas from the perspective of his faith.

 [My faith] it’s everything; it really has, it’s afforded me so many things. … God didn’t come here to save the saints, He came to save the sinners.

Wahlberg told Fox Business about some of his plans, and he’s already started moving in that direction.

We’re looking to create 10,000 jobs on the studio alone. The average salary would be $100,000 more than what it is now. We want to train people both in front of and behind the camera, create jobs, most importantly, first and foremost, for locals.

There’s lots of opportunity for growth here, and the government, especially our new governor, is really looking for opportunities to create jobs outside of gaming.

Wahlberg’s family comes first, he suggested, saying he wants to be able to work from home.

I want to be able to work from home. I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting and I’ve only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there.

So, to be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams whether it be my daughter as an equestrian, my son as a basketball player, [and] my younger son as a golfer, this made a lot more sense for us.

So we came here to just give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids, and there’s lots of opportunity here, so I’m really excited about the future.

If it strikes you that Mark Wahlberg isn’t a Hollywood Looney Tune like so many of his colleagues, you’re right. Wahlberg has long stood on his faith, principles, and doing the next right thing — Hollywood lunacy be damned.

Big plans are in the works:

The first studio is in the southwest valley at Durango Drive and Sunset Road off the 215 Beltway, and referred to as ‘Zone One,’ would also serve as an education pipeline for UNLV film students through an $8 million training facility on-site.

Plans were revealed on Wednesday for a second location, Summerlin South at Flamingo Road and Town Center Drive, which would be 60 acres to be used for a “mixed-use, vibrant” retail space and possibly a hotel.

“The studio includes both your three-story buildings where you build sets, your sound stages. It includes a volume studio, which is those green rooms where they filmed things like Star Wars and the Mandalorian,” Howard Hughes Corporation CEO David O’Reilly said.

Meanwhile, in Hollywood, via RedState coverage:

As Hollywood Continues to Try Fixing Itself, the Ridiculous Effort May Involve Illegal Solutions

‘The Office’ Star Rainn Wilson Slams Hollywood for Its Blatant ‘Anti-Christian Bias’

Hollywood’s Awards Season Shows the Industry Is Getting More Woke—And Less Smart

I don’t have a crystal ball, of course, but it seems to me that as more and more everyday Americans grow even more disgusted with the left’s insidious impact on some of America’s largest corporations, with effective boycotts — Bud Light and Target — bringing pandering CEOs to their financial knees, Walberg’s Hollywood 2.0 has a good shot at succeeding.

Will Hollywood 2.0 overtake Hollywood 1.0 as America’s movie capital? I doubt it — in the foreseeable future, that is, but as extreme leftism continues to metastasize throughout the entertainment industry, I wouldn’t bet against it long-term.

And I damn sure wouldn’t bet against Mark Wahlberg.