Blumhouse founder, Jason Blum, told Vulture, " You take that nervous energy and try to convert that into, ‘Hey guys, let’s just keep our eye on the prize here, which is getting the movie back on the schedule at any time. Eventually Universal shelved it.īut in December, conversations about the film's resurrection began. According to Universal, the initial test screenings were well-received, but the media backlash had mounted too high. Conservative media stoked more anger around the film before it was actually screened by any media. The film trailer's placement during an August Democratic debate didn't help matters either. The trailer drop was promptly followed by two mass shootings. The film, initially slated to be released in September 2019, was met with immediate backlash. In fairness to The Hunt, it's not the one-sided conservative bloodbath that Fox News and Trump claimed it to be, but much of its demise was because of a string of other events. Unfortunately, The Hunt falls prey to its own premise. By vilifying both liberals and conservatives, Damon Lindelof and Nick Cuse's story hopes to point out how we manifest our own truths. It's our modern political discourse playing out in B-horror film fashion. The film itself focuses on a group of conservative "rednecks," drugged, kidnapped, and dropped into an unknown location to be hunted by a sextet of liberal elites. In a different world, The Hunt would be satire, but in our particular reality, we live in the satire. Donald Trump Doesn't Get This Curb Joke.
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