Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for Sport by Liberals
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Kathy Griffin claims she can’t get work following her photoshoot with a decapitated and bloody Trump head, but don’t let that fool you. Hollywood clearly still likes the idea of promoting violence against people who aren’t good and obedient leftists, because Universal Pictures is set to release a thriller called The Hunt on September 27, which features left-wing “elites” hunting Trump supporters for sport.
In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film .
"Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-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.
According to THR , the movie “features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey.”
You can watch the trailer for The Hunt here:
The original title for the film was Red State Vs. Blue State, so the political themes of the movie are clearly important to the plot. THR says that The Hunt “made some executives at Universal skittish back in May 2018, when film chief Donna Langley acquired the script and fast-tracked it at a modest $18 million budget,” but several studios “did not pursue it because of the explosive premise.” One studio executive reportedly didn’t even bother reading the script because "The idea seemed crazy." The movie was produced by Jason Blum, who also produced other well-known horror flicks like The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and Get Out.
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.
How exactly did anyone think this was a good idea even before the El Paso and Dayton shootings? In June 2017, a Bernie Sanders supporter and left-wing activist shot at Republican members of Congress who were practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity. The shooter had specifically inquired as to whether the team practicing was made of Republicans or Democrats. The same year, Senator Rand Paul was assaulted by his own neighbor and just this past week had part of his lung surgically removed because of injuries sustained in that attack. Apparently, some in Hollywood are more than willing to promote violence against Trump supporters. Meanwhile, Democrats and liberals in the media want us to believe that it's Trump’s rhetoric that needs to be toned down.
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Meh, more liberal "white collar" Hollywood fantasy.
Most of those dingle-berries wouldn't last five minutes in a real situation like that on their own.
I seriously doubt I'll catch this movie in the theatres (maybe way down the road when it comes out on TV and there's nothing else on) I just find the whole concept of humans hunting humans to be so overdone. There have been tv shows about it (hell even a Simpsons episode), many books, human history etc. Like a story about a mass shooting it just can't hold my interest anymore.
I doubt it even makes it to theaters now , might go direct to DVD or the streaming services like happens to a lot of films now.
with a modest billion dollar budget anyone want to bet this is a flop?
agreed, I don't see this going anywhere.
This should "Calm" things down in this country.
Nah, it's Trumps fault this film got made so all the bad that happens is still his fault.
Absolutely!
For sure.
Do you think all movies are real, or just this one?
They ALL must be.
But I'm just a NUT after all !
Poor triggered little snowflake. Do you need a comfort puppy? Did you go scream at the sky? Perhaps your safe space is in order.
I wonder if this was an attempt to be the reverse 'Deliverance'. Looks like a piece of garbage either way, and far less believable. Are we sure these producers aren't the Koch brothers or some other conservative group desperate for anything that makes them look like the victims?
Just asking, because it seems a little far fetched that the anti-assault rifle knitted pink pussy-hat wearing liberals would really be the ones behind such an obvious attempt at rabble rousing.
Wouldn't they be better described as "Hollywood capitalists with no shame trying to capitalize on the current political division in America?". As many have said before, there's no such thing as bad press. This film likely wouldn't have even been a blip on most Americans radar had it not been amplified by those who are imagining themselves as the victim's screaming about it.
Good point, many on the right love to play the victim....Our own POTUS does it constantly, (and usually at the same time, he is attacking someone).
But I thought the liberals were all lazy welfare queens living in their mom's basements? Now all the sudden they are rich elites? Always fun to watch that narrative change to fit an agenda...
Yet here you are, debating...er, whatever. Looks like they certainly got your attention.
Yea, that was pretty funny watching the "NON-PC!!!!!!" crowd crying like a bunch of babies over a photoshopped picture. Apparently that non-pc shit only applies in one direction.
I have no problem with what she did. I also have no problem with those making sure she never works again.
What ever happened to the left's 'words have consequences?"
Or does that only apply when someone on the right does something?
She couldn't get work before then either! Funny she's not!
I never much cared for her to be honest...
I don't think this is funny or entertaining.
But I think the article has gotten this wrong. It's the "Elites" that are the bad guys. At least that is how I am looking at the preview.
In any case, hunting people for sport no matter their politics is pretty sick. Not wasting my money or time on this garbage.
We've seen movies where the "Elites" hunt humans many times. 'The Most Dangerous Game', 'A Game of Death', 'Bloodlust', 'The 10th Victim', 'The Naked Prey', 'The Woman Hunt', 'Turkey Shoot', 'Deadly Prey', 'Death Ring', 'Surviving the Game', 'Hard target' and many more TV series and more recent films, so this genre is not new. This is just another modern revision trying to capitalize on the political divisions sown by this feckless President.
Don't forget all The Purge movies and The Purge tv series.
Also Gilligans Island had an episode where a big game hunter was hunting Gilligan
I can think of many movies and TV shows where the plot involved humans hunting humans which usually involved old rich powerful men abusing poor or oppressed people as hunting prey though I do remember one where beautiful young woman were the unlucky prey animals. The premise certainly is nothing new. This is just another rightwing "Outrage Of The Day". The fact that the actual premise is not what they claim does not matter to righties. Maintaining their perpetual state of false outrage is all that matters to them especially if it fits their political agenda...
The Hunger Games is exactly the same thing, same plot, same result.
The underdogs always win in Hollywood.
Otherwise, what's the point?
Some believe the Zodiac killer was influenced by a similar movie - "The most dangerous Game." He supposedly made a subtle reference to it in one of his letters.
So, Ya Perrie, I agree, it is pretty sick.
I think you are right Perrie, if we just go by the trailer it seems to be trying to show the "deplorables" in the story as the good guys, and the "elites" as the bad guys.
Its not surprising, as that is the way it usual is in Hollywood movies. If the story depended on sympathy for rich pricks the theaters would be understandably empty.
I think that this movie is supposed to be a dark satire. I think it is meant to satirize both the elites and the deplorables. And think it will be a bomb. Miscalculation by out of touch Hollywood producers.
So who is still alive in the end?
Betty Gilpin aka Crystal. The attractive woman with the attitude ( from Mississippi) in the movie trailer who is killing all of the elites...
"Let them eat cake." Marie Antoinette.
Read your history.
So, the liberals are portrayed as the good guys here?
I don't think they are.
I think some are missing the sick joke, and mistakenly (as usual) playing the victims.
Yep, Democrats are the party of the "affluent" white Liberal elite ..... virtually all of Hollywood ..... white entrepreneurs like Bezos and Zuckerberg .... politicians like the Clintons, Feinstein, Warner and Blumenthal and guys like Buffett who earned much of his fortune sucking off the public teat via railroad subsidies and Federal handouts to his many other industries. Yep, uber rich Dems, one and all.
But the worker drones continue to do what they are told by the rich keepers of the hive. They are programmed well by their rich bee keepers.
So, Hollywood liberals are making movies that vilify...themselves?
Ok.
They make what they think will sell so yeah. If they think people will go to see it, they'll make it.
It's nice to have such a dedicated following.
Thx, you're the best!
Sounds very capitalistic to me. Not generally a trait associated with libs.
Yep, pretty hypocritical eh?
Always with a couple here. They follow me around voting up comments that disagree with mine.
It's pretty hilarious!
BTDT with two or three of them.
They really love me .... they just haven't figure that out yet .....
Depends on what their actual views are, as opposed to views attributed to them. Like this movie, for instance.
Are you privy to the political views of the film's makers?
Do you think that this movie paints liberals as the good guys, or is this seed yet another example of your attempts to paint conservatives as perpetual victims and liberals as perpetual villains?
I'm glad. Never been a fan of hyperviolent movies, myself.
But I also notice you didn't answer the question
Still conservatives playing victim.
No, you just play them on TV.
Badly.
Ya don't say.
And that's true of pretty much anywhere, no matter how much you try to convince us and yourself otherwise.
You'd be fairly safe there, just as I'm fairly safe in my bright red county.
Most people, right or left, don't go around physically attacking people over their politics.
But some are intent on vilifying the other side.
A neighboring county's Democratic Party office was vandalized a few years ago. When Walmart stopped selling Confederate flags, impromptu "redneck rallies" consisting of guys amassing in the parking lot who can't tell the difference between "a flag is banned by the liberal government" and "we're just not selling that flag" necessitated police presence. Instead of immediately and perpetually claiming victim status, I rolled my eyes and went on with my life.
You might try it.