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The Hunt

  • 01-08-2019 7:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭


    I recognised her face but had to google, it's Liberty Belle from GLOW!

    Anyway.. trailer..


    Anyone see that 2006 film Severance? Kinda reminds me of that crossed with Hostile crossed with The Game

    The writers have the Watchmen TV series in common:
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7226510/
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,346 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Looks interesting, but it's a shame they showed the entire move in the trailer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    The top comments on the trailer kinda saying that too.

    I'm kinda leaning towards agreement there... unless they are doing some kinda stealth campaign. I didn't figure blumhouse for that but I don't watch a lot of horror.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,737 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    Looks fun. Great cast... I mean, they have the Golden God! Sold right there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Blumhouse are making some great stuff at the moment.


    Avenging Force is still my favorite of these hunting films... Michael Dudikoff & Steve James kick ass 80's style.


    I'm all in for these kind of films.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    So this has been pulled from the schedules, and looks like even Trump weighed in on the film, getting uppity about it, the point sailing over his head as is often the case and called the film "racist" :rolleyes:

    No doubt coming to a Netflix subscription in the near future.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/08/09/trump-criticizes-hollywood-amid-controversy-over-political-satire-hunt/?noredirect=on


    President Trump took another swing at “Liberal Hollywood” on Friday afternoon, describing people in the industry as racist and “full of great Anger and Hate!”

    “They like to call themselves ‘Elite,’ but they are not Elite," he tweeted. “In fact, it is often the people that they so strongly oppose that are actually the Elite.”

    He also argued that an upcoming movie intends “to inflame and cause chaos.” The tweets echo words spoken to members of the media outside the White House earlier in the day, when he also described Hollywood as racist and “the kind of movies they’re putting out” as a “tremendous disservice to our country.”


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,607 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    'murica. Jesus Christ.

    Even the trailer in the OP has been removed.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,225 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Republicans: the melt-iest of all snowflakes.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Republicans: the melt-iest of all snowflakes.

    Between Brexit and Trump, I've never witnessed such insecure, incompetent, histrionic "winners" in politics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,229 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    Isn't the hero of the film one of the deplorables who is kicking the asses of the smug elite liberals?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Hold on... what?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    political reverse of The Purge?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    The 2012 Scandi film of the same name is a great film. Stars the guy who plays hannibal in the eponymous TV show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Understandable for the distributor, the last thing they want is dead red staters on thier consience!! It'll come out at some point officially and be widely seen unofficial I expect


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I can understand them delaying it in America for many reason be it the recent mass shootings or a president that doesn't understand satire but pulling it from schedule is just...In Trump voice SAD!

    However the rest of the world is actually pretty rational when it comes to understanding entertainment is just that entertainment and there was no need to pull it outside of America.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,319 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    seems like Universal it pulled entirely https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-hunt-canceled-universal-betty-gilpin-hilary-swank-emma-roberts-1203298774/

    why would "liberals" hunt people ??


    co-written by Damon Lindelof
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/

    probably never get an answer, its fine if its satire but is the satire actually played out or is it all setup ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    I can understand them delaying it in America for many reason be it the recent mass shootings or a president that doesn't understand satire but pulling it from schedule is just...In Trump voice SAD!

    However the rest of the world is actually pretty rational when it comes to understanding entertainment is just that entertainment and there was no need to pull it outside of America.

    Have Universal said it is delayed worldwide?

    I assumed it was just held back in the US.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    seems like Universal it pulled entirely

    why would "liberals" hunt people ??


    co-written by Damien Lindleoft
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/

    probably never get an answer, its fine if its satire but is the satire actually played out or is it all setup ?

    I assumed this was a misunderstanding based on Trump's ramblings because if the film is "anti-conservative" then why would the liberals be the ones doing the hunting? It would be the other way around.

    I was fairly sure the synopsis I read a couple of weeks ago stated it was a rich vs. poor notion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,229 ✭✭✭✭Rjd2


    I assumed this was a misunderstanding based on Trump's ramblings because if the film is "anti-conservative" then why would the liberals be the ones doing the hunting? It would be the other way around.

    I was fairly sure the synopsis I read a couple of weeks ago stated it was a rich vs. poor notion.

    I'm perplexed also. From the trailer Hillary Swank who is the most famous Liberal is playing her character as an obnoxious elitist liberal who loathes those who have not made it. She and the other liberals are clearly the villains of this.

    The hero is the "deplorable" along with others who is fighting back and kicking ass.

    How its anti conservative and pro leftie liberal is a mystery to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Rjd2 wrote: »
    I'm perplexed also. From the trailer Hillary Swank who is the most famous Liberal is playing her character as an obnoxious elitist liberal who loathes those who have not made it. She and the other liberals are clearly the villains of this.

    The hero is the "deplorable" along with others who is fighting back and kicking ass.

    How its anti conservative and pro leftie liberal is a mystery to me.

    I don't want to watch the trailer because of spoilers but are other Elites shown as liberals too or just Swank? How is she identified in the trailer as liberal?

    If the Elites are indeed liberals then in order for the film to anti-conservative the Deplorable are going to turn out to be the bad guys.

    If people are wrong and the film is not anti-conservative then it is simply a rich vs. poor story.

    No doubt the shelving of the film is going to be spun as Hollywood backing down after Trump made those comments.

    On that matter, Trump is not the first person to say video games and movies are responsible for violence but isn't it fair to say that they can be an influence unstable people?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    It sounds like Big Dave style irony ripping the p!ss out of wingnut types. Storylines included Saddam Hussein using a huge beam weapon to turn British soldiers into homosexuals

    I don't think Trump is warning them they'll be subject to irony though. I think he is suggesting that it will be some fetishistic celebration of what liberal elite evil types would love to be already doing.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=big+dave+comic&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjtuJ-slfvjAhVUEsAKHWS7DycQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=big+dave+comic&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0i24.3610.4676..4899...0.0..0.79.403.6......0....1.........0i67j0j0i30j0i8i30.Tt9nrfS6Y5w&ei=uThQXa34C9SkgAbk9r64Ag&bih=560&biw=360&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=inmv#imgrc=EDzN0wOxluhJtM


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,319 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    few have seen the film but THR says based on the script, its liberals hunting 'deplorables' https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829 its original title was Red state vs Blue state.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    few have seen the film but THR says based on the script its liberals hunting deplorables. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829 its orignal title was Red state vs Blue state.

    Okay so the liberals are the hunters and the hero is apparently a conservative type. So in fact the film as it comes across at the moment seem anti-liberal.

    So for people to claim it is anti-conservative means they have seen the film or script and know of some twist that makes Betty Gilpen the villain. Or the are just very confused about the trailer.

    My guess would be is that the film takes the piss out of all sides in America. As one executive at Universal says in that article the movie "is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in".


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Spon Farmer, your mistake is ascribing logic to a typical American Moral Panic, which generally comes from the pearl clutching snowflakes in the conservative demographic. None of this makes sense, and just like James Gunns firing from GOTG3, Universal are responding to an irrational, idiotic campaign.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Since the movie isn't happening, here is a song to cheer us up
    New Model Army - The Hunt

    There are lasses getting trouble on their own home beat
    There are old folk battered in the open street
    In this city of hours
    There are eyes that see but say nothing at all
    There are ears that hear but they don't recall
    In this city of hours
    So we followed your man back to your front door
    And we're waiting for you outside
    'Cause not everybody here is scared of you
    Not everybody passes on the other side
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7K88HqFQ8M


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    why would "liberals" hunt people ??

    Had great potential for satire, people turning to the thing they clam to hate and I’m sure there would have been the occasional slip about some people thinking it’s ok.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    pixelburp wrote: »
    Spon Farmer, your mistake is ascribing logic to a typical American Moral Panic, which generally comes from the pearl clutching snowflakes in the conservative demographic. None of this makes sense, and just like James Gunns firing from GOTG3, Universal are responding to an irrational, idiotic campaign.

    There is a campaign?

    I was only aware of Trump making a few comments but I wasn't aware of there being a whoopty-do about it. Putting a movie or TV episode on delayed release because of a real world event is nothing new. Studios want to make money - a movie like The Hunt could be hurt if released soon after a mass murder. It is a sensible decision for the American market.

    I don't know if James Gunn deserved to be fired but the comments he made were disgusting regardless of how long ago, but he behaved with dignity and class through it all and showed he was not that same person so he earned himself a second chance. The same cannot be said for everyone - some people (both famous and not) ranted like knackers about it. And there were others in projects who did deserve to be fired.

    Some people here are reacting to this delay in that same type of panic you say the Yanks get.

    The Hunt is not being buried in a booby-trapped tomb for all eternity. Universe are simply going to wait for a another date.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    I don't want to watch the trailer because of spoilers but are other Elites shown as liberals too or just Swank? How is she identified in the trailer as liberal?

    If it's not getting released why are you worried about spoilers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    If it's not getting released why are you worried about spoilers?

    It is getting released


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    It is getting released

    When? I can't see anywhere that says a new date.

    FYI - #nospoilers the trailer is a bit crap.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The temporary delay and all the hullabaloo is a nice bit of publicity.

    When this does come out a lot more people are going to be interested than would usually be for this type of low budget fare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    Dades wrote: »
    The temporary delay and all the hullabaloo is a nice bit of publicity.

    When this does come out a lot more people are going to be interested than would usually be for this type of low budget fare.


    Marketing ploy? Sounds plausible, and probable. People's memory of this will fade, so we can expect another piece of hype just before it's release to refocus attention. Low budget tactics of 'hyping to deceive'.








  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    When? I can't see anywhere that says a new date.

    FYI - #nospoilers the trailer is a bit crap.

    So you believe The Hunt is going away forever, never to be viewed by anyone again? Locked in a deep dark dungeon?

    The studio has pulled it from the release date because of recent events in the US that could affect it's box-office. They are burying it forever.

    What do you mean by "#nospoilers the trailer is a bit crap"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Marketing ploy? Sounds plausible, and probable. People's memory of this will fade, so we can expect another piece of hype just before it's release to refocus attention. Low budget tactics of 'hyping to deceive'.







    I don't think Dades means the studio are delaying the release as a marketing tactic - I think he just means that the whoopty-do results in a nice bit of publicity.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    I don't think Dades means the studio are delaying the release as a marketing tactic - I think he just means that the whoopty-do results in a nice bit of publicity.


    Oh yeah. Note to self; read post properly.:D






  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    Oh yeah. Note to self; read post properly.:D





    The only reason I watch The Interview was because of the whoopty-do.

    I wish now I hadn't fallen for it :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,319 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    releasing it on september 27th as planned they would benefit from the controversy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    releasing it on september 27th as planned would have benefit for the controversy

    By end of September the Yanks would forgot the recent shootings.

    The issue is the marketing - always has to start well in advance and can pop up everywhere like billboards and TV. This is what people would have an issue with.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    By the end of September it's entirely likely there'll be another mass shooting. Postponement in a country with more shootings than days in the year makes no sense.

    Which reminds, has it been confirmed postponed or cancelled? Cos presumably Blumhouse would prefer the former, but if Universal are going with the latter you better believe Jason Blum is shopping the film right this minute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    pixelburp wrote: »
    By the end of September it's entirely likely there'll be another mass shooting. Postponement in a country with more shootings than days in the year makes no sense.

    Which reminds, has it been confirmed postponed or cancelled? Cos presumably Blumhouse would prefer the former, but if Universal are going with the latter you better believe Jason Blum is shopping the film right this minute.

    This is not the first film or TV show to have delayed/resceduled a release because of shootings, kidnappings, murders, etc.

    The all get released sooner rather than later. The next mass shooting won't be a big deal and the film comes out.

    Media sites are saying the film release cancelled and such but that is just them jumping on a bandwagon. Universal announced it was not releasing it as planned. I do not think the said cancelled.

    Blumhouseand Universal have a very good relationship and Varity (I think) say the majority of executives at Universal "support" Jason Blum. It didn't say why or what that support was about - maybe Blum pushed for the release to headband the majority backed him but the higher ups decided no. Or it is just that the situation is an unwanted hassle but no-one blames Blumhouse.

    Anyway Blum won't shop The Hunt elsewhere unless Universal really don't want it. However, most likely they just want let thinks calm down a bit and come up with an alternate marketing campaign I case there is another shooting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    From Empire -

    "While Universal Pictures had already paused the marketing campaign for The Hunt, after thoughtful consideration, the studio has decided to cancel our plans to release the film," a spokesperson for Universal said in a statement picked up by Variety. "We stand by our filmmakers and will continue to distribute films in partnership with bold and visionary creators, like those associated with this satirical social thriller, but we understand that now is not the right time to release this film."

    Empire have jumped on the bandwagon too saying "Films have often been delayed because of real-world events, though this feels more permanent".

    There is absolutely nothing to suggest that this film is getting buried in some mysterious vault somewhere.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,319 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    noticed watching the Loudest Voice a very criticial TV show about Fox TV CEO Roger Ailes was produced by BlumHouse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭Spon Farmer


    noticed watching how the Loudest Voice a very crticial TV show about Roger Ailes was produced by BlumHouse

    Is that the Russell Crowe in a fat suit one? I thought it was out for ages.

    Didn't know Blumhouse did anything except horror.

    I'm really hoping they restart the Universal Monster shared world idea that Universal tried with Dark Universe. I enjoyed Te Mummy and was looking forward to the others.

    I read Blumhouse took over the concept and were going going to do smaller scale with more horror than action/adventure. I' enjoy that too but really want some Dracula vs Frankenstein vs Creature from the Black Laggon shenanigans.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The all get released sooner rather than later.
    Unless Kevin Spacey is in it. :p

    They should wait a year and release it in the run-up to the US presidential election. That would be fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    So you believe The Hunt is going away forever, never to be viewed by anyone again? Locked in a deep dark dungeon?

    I didn't say that. You just had an air to your posts that a certain release date was out there, when there isn't. This could end up eventually going straight DVD/streaming and released without anyone noticing or caring.
    What do you mean by "#nospoilers the trailer is a bit crap"?

    Didn't think I'd need to explain but I'll refer to your earlier post.
    I don't want to watch the trailer because of spoilers but are other Elites shown as liberals too or just Swank? How is she identified in the trailer as liberal?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭cdgalwegian


    seems like Universal it pulled entirely https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-hunt-canceled-universal-betty-gilpin-hilary-swank-emma-roberts-1203298774/

    why would "liberals" hunt people ??


    co-written by Damon Lindelof
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8244784/

    probably never get an answer, its fine if its satire but is the satire actually played out or is it all setup ?
    I assumed this was a misunderstanding based on Trump's ramblings because if the film is "anti-conservative" then why would the liberals be the ones doing the hunting? It would be the other way around.

    I was fairly sure the synopsis I read a couple of weeks ago stated it was a rich vs. poor notion.


    Nice little piece from The Week magazine;


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Well, it's back. Shouldn't have been too surprised, there's money to be made and films are rarely, truly canned. Plus as the saying goes, there really isn't any such thing as bad publicity. I suspect this, like Joker, may yet be another film to benefit from the Streisand Effect and do mega business...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Gah! I've got to catch up on GLOW!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Still no release date for here or the UK however other European countries have a release date late April and early May.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    March 11th release date here in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Hasn't felt very marketed. Feels like it'll need some big word-of-mouth to make money.


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