Current Events > Upcoming movie 'The Hunt' is about liberals killing MAGA supporters for sport

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."

In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.

Over the Aug. 3 weekend, ESPN pulled an ad for the film that it had previously cleared, while AMC ran the spot during the season premiere of its drama The Preacher. It's unclear whether the ads were identical, but the one yanked by ESPN opened with a sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal. A rep for ESPN parent Disney declined to comment on the move, but an ESPN source says no spots for the film will appear on the network in the coming weeks.

The Hunt stars Betty Gilpin from GLOW and Hilary Swank, representing opposite sides of the political divide. It features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey. The script from Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter revolves around third-rail political themes. (Original title: Red State Vs. Blue State.)

A studio source says that even before the recent attacks, which left 34 dead in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California, some reshoots were done based on a recent rough cut. Universal and Blumhouse declined to comment.

While one high-level Universal source says the studio has pulled some ads that are beginning to air and appear online "for content and placement," others say the matter is still under discussion internally. A major ad blitz on television and the web had been planned for the beginning of September, says one insider. A trailer is already online.

Given the fraught political climate particularly in the wake of the attack in El Paso, which was motivated by anti-immigrant bigotry studio sources say Universal is evaluating its plans in what one called "a fluid situation." A high-level insider says top executives want to stand by Blum, one of the studio's most prolific and successful producers, as well as filmmaker Craig Zobel, and see the project as a satire addressing an issue of great social importance. But this person says plans could change "if people think we're being exploitative rather than opinionated."

The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it's his constitutional right. The blue-state characters some equally adept with firearms explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. "War is war," says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.

What the
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Can't be real.

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i'm a lib, but this ain't it chief
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lol pure fantasy
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Everyone involved in this is a rank S moron.
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I thought you were talking about the Mads movie, which was good btw.

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Hmmm, I didn't get that at all from the admittedly only like 20 seconds I've seen a trailer of. Will be interesting to actually see it and how it's really played out.
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dot dot dot

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What if liberals were MAGA on MAGAs.

This is an entirely masturbatory exercise. Trash.

I'm definitely gonna see it.
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I literally just saw a trailer for this movie an hour ago when looking up an emma roberts interview. She's apparently in it as a victim and I can't see her as a maga type person lol.
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Heineken14 posted...

Hmmm, I didn't get that at all from the admittedly only like 20 seconds I've seen a trailer of. Will be interesting to actually see it and how it's really played out.

Yeah, I watched the trailer and there was zero political talk. I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the hunters making a dumb joke and the Hollywood Reporter blew that up into "ITS LIBS VS MAGA."
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Sounds like a cool movie with interesting concept! Will watch

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GiftedACIII posted...

I literally just saw a trailer for this movie an hour ago when looking up an emma roberts interview. She's apparently in it as a victim and I can't see her as a maga type person lol.

I think it'll be a 'both sides!' sorta thing.
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Real talk though, this movie will probably play really well to Trump supporters because it's obviously about a down-home country girl using her second amendment rights to take out these liberal elites.
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The RT description makes it appear probably, and I'm guessing likely, to be a bit more "fair":

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen... for a very specific purpose... The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of globalist elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport. But the elites' master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters' game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar (R) winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all.

Probably still not the best thing to be releasing on the heels of a mass shooting driven by political motives, but I doubt it'll be simple "gore porn for the libs!" or whatever
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

The RT description makes it appear probably, and I'm guessing likely, to be a bit more "fair":

Probably still not the best thing to be releasing on the heels of a mass shooting driven by political motives, but I doubt it'll be simple "gore porn for the libs!" or whatever

so basically "The Most Dangerous Game" but with an anti-liberal slant

mmk

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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Probably still not the best thing to be releasing on the heels of a mass shooting

If we try to schedule movie releases around when mass shootings happen or don't happen in America, no movies will ever get released. :/
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Heineken14 posted...

If we try to schedule movie releases around when mass shootings happen or don't happen in America, no movies will ever get released. :/

or maybe you shouldn't make tasteless movies about your political opponents gunning people down in cold blood?

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The movie looks fun but I cant wait to see the shitstorm it stirs up
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

The RT description makes it appear probably, and I'm guessing likely, to be a bit more "fair":

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen... for a very specific purpose... The Hunt. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of globalist elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans for sport. But the elites' master plan is about to be derailed because one of the hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters' game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar (R) winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all.

Probably still not the best thing to be releasing on the heels of a mass shooting driven by political motives, but I doubt it'll be simple "gore porn for the libs!" or whatever

That makes it sound like it doesn't have political theming. Either intentional or they really had to change a lot from the original vision.
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fox gonna have a field day
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Neat.
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The trailer makes it look pretty one-sided. The elites are clearly the bad guys.

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from the makers of the purge its to be expected
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Yeah. I'm fairly conservative and I don't get the uproar about this.

The 1% types are clearly the bad guys and it has a distinct pro 2nd amendment message. This is basically "Don't tread on me" in film form.
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Nick_Saban posted...

Yeah. I'm fairly conservative and I don't get the uproar about this.

The 1% types are clearly the bad guys and it has a distinct pro 2nd amendment message. This is basically "Don't tread on me" in film form.

It seems to be confusing a lot of people

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Idk why this is so controversial, no one was particularly upset about the government murdering all the poor people in the purge movies
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shnangyboos posted...

The trailer makes it look pretty one-sided. The elites are clearly the bad guys.

I assume its satire, and theyre making fun of conservatives fear of liberals?
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Damn. I saw a preview for this and it looked like a fun retelling of the human hunting themes explored in films like Most Dangerous Game and Hard Target. You're telling me the protagonists are supposed to be Trump supporters?

It's like seeing a preview for what looks like a really cool war movie about an escape from a Soviet prison and then finding out the escapees are members of the Luftwaffe.

Really, what's the angle on this one?

Is it made by conservatives saying that liberals are the bad guys? Is it made by liberals saying that some liberals are taking things too far? Is it a "don't judge a book by its cover" commentary in which a woman who fits the MAGA type is actually a decent individual? She looks like a strong and resourceful character. (Just with a little more boobage than what mainstream Hollywood seems to go for.) It's hard to think that her being hunted and killed is a good thing, but I also can't see her being a hero if she's supposed to represent the MAGA front.

I usually don't play favorites when it comes to politics. But Trump is a bad dude in ways that have nothing to do with political affiliation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall Reagan or Bush (H.W. or W.) locking children in cages without access to proper hygiene or deliberately enabling racial hatred. Trump support is more like support for the KKK than it is support for the GOP.

There are a lot of good people who are naive or unduly loyal to their party. But I don't care to see someone like that made the hero if support for a man like Trump is what makes them the hero. He refuses to distance himself from the bigots who fawn over him. Even his responses to race based murder sprees are muted. The man is just bad business and any decent Republican should be looking elsewhere for a champion.

@Machete this must be like porn for you.
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Yeah......but the people hunting poor people for sport are the villains of the movie

I know, shocker
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

shnangyboos posted...

The trailer makes it look pretty one-sided. The elites are clearly the bad guys.

I assume its satire, and theyre making fun of conservatives fear of liberals? Like a this is what conservatives actually believe thing.

Never met a conservative in person who believes anything like that. What i have heard from several though is "what are they gonna do? Fight us with dildos?" Think making fun of that thing a while back where they where protesting gun violence with dildos somehow. I forget really as i didnt pay it much mind.

Then again this all was before antifa became the boogeyman. So maybe its changed.
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What a dumb fucking idea
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Lmao. This feels oddly like Kevin Smith's Red State with roles reversed and that scene in the Purge 2 mixed into it.

Weird it's coming from Lindelof.
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I thought it was rich elitists hunting poor people?
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this makes no sense. how would it be legal to murder trump supporters with Trump in charge? why would he let that law go into effect? I'm confused about this plot

Zikten posted...

this makes no sense. how would it be legal to murder trump supporters with Trump in charge? why would he let that law go into effect? I'm confused about this plot

Ooooh....

That's probably the twist. The hunters are actually Trump's rich buddies.

Theres literally zero political spin in the trailer.

also

Im a simple man. I see Glenn Howerton is in a movie. I watch it

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SquirrelyDan posted...

I thought it was rich elitists hunting poor people?

I think they're rich elite liberals hunting rural folk.
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Darmik posted...

SquirrelyDan posted...

I thought it was rich elitists hunting poor people?

I think they're rich elite liberals hunting rural folk.

Semantics in most cases. It would still be the rich killing people with significantly less wealth, which would basically be anyone middle class or lower.

Not an original nor flattering take if that's the movie's actual plot in a nutshell.
And poorly timed given the recent tragedies...
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I don't see the problem
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OpenlyGator posted...

Darmik posted...

SquirrelyDan posted...

I thought it was rich elitists hunting poor people?

I think they're rich elite liberals hunting rural folk.

Semantics in most cases. It would still be the rich killing people with significantly less wealth, which would basically be anyone middle class or lower.

Not an original nor flattering take if that's the movie's actual plot in a nutshell.
And poorly timed given the recent tragedies...

I'm just clarifying. Assuming the article is true they're picking out people they feel deserve it. Like people who are racist on Twitter or whatever.
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Darmik posted...

OpenlyGator posted...

Darmik posted...

SquirrelyDan posted...

I thought it was rich elitists hunting poor people?

I think they're rich elite liberals hunting rural folk.

Semantics in most cases. It would still be the rich killing people with significantly less wealth, which would basically be anyone middle class or lower.

Not an original nor flattering take if that's the movie's actual plot in a nutshell.
And poorly timed given the recent tragedies...

I'm just clarifying. Assuming the article is true they're picking out people they feel deserve it. Like people who are racist on Twitter or whatever.

"Racist on twiiter".

Well that would be a lot more potential candidates than just people from the MAGA crowd and would not confine it to just conservative parties either as examples of racist beliefs can be found across the political spectrum...

Overall, the movie's description just sounds like an overzealous political extremist's brand of murder porn. I really would not be surprised if it was given a green light not so much for pushing a political message but rather just catering to said extremes for a quick buck. Not the first time the Hollywood machine has attempted to cash in on current controversy, even if it's done in poor taste.
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Nice. There's more than enough quasi-nazi flag waving in film, put some hopeful truth on the screen for a change, and not some fake cape shit.

Muten_Jiren posted...

Nice. There's more than enough quasi-nazi flag waving in film, put some hopeful truth on the screen for a change, and not some fake cape shit.

I'm assuming the liberals all get killed by the end of the movie. the hero of the movie is a conservative apparently, and the villains are liberals. the hunters are the villains, not the heroes

Everyone should see Mandy instead.

I don't think Mandy is related to The Hunt but The Hunt sounds lame and Mandy is fucking metal.
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looks like the people in the movie killing everyone were being hunted thought the trailer doesn't show anyone really hunting them

so they gang up and kill everyone they see

not sure what tc sees

FrozenXylophone posted...

looks like the people in the movie killing everyone were being hunted thought the trailer doesn't show anyone really hunting them

so they gang up and kill everyone they see

not sure what tc sees

I quoted an article
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