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Universal's "The Hunt" is about "a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals."
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It may be an old version of the script they got their hands on, but quotes in the article make it seem like the outline of what they are going for is still the same.
Also, the bad guys aren't just rich people but the "elites" who "pay for everything so the country belongs to [them]" with the protagonists being from Mississippi, Wyoming, and Florida.
THR has a pretty good track record with most industry scoops, so maybe an outdated version of the script (especially since the report says the studio already has done reshoots even before the latest mass shooting), but I'd hardly rush to claim they are "full of shit".
I want to know what the subtext here is.
Is Lindelof Maga? Is he criticizing the hostility of the left? Is he satirizing the rights persecution complex?
Is Lindelof Maga? Is he criticizing the hostility of the left? Is he satirizing the rights persecution complex?
This sounds yikes
Like basically 90% of Hollywood blockbuster screenwriters?
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The fact this even got made kind of sells me on seeing it... there's a number of actors here too that typically pick up on some out of the box movies that turn out being pretty good,
As with any movie it's kind of hard to speak on until reviews at least come out...
As with any movie it's kind of hard to speak on until reviews at least come out...
Oof.
I should've known, to the point that even though I had no way of knowing, I somehow feel bad that I didn't know.
Yeah, this seems really misguided. I hope it turns out differently in the end, but my gut reaction is this shouldn't have been made.
Sir, this is a progressive forum. Why you gotta post this right-wing fantasy garbage?
I got really confused because the trailer says it's from the producer of Get Out.
But it doesn't say which producer of Get Out.
But it doesn't say which producer of Get Out.
This feels like response to Get Out
Get Out has 12 producer credits
Look it's fine to criticize Lindelof for this movie idea but a lot of writers only work in adaptations because it's what studios arr buying. And leftovers season 2 and 3 are all original content same with the Watchmen sequel. Tomorrowland is also pretty much a whole original story.
The guy has huge flaws but his being putting his ideas since Lost that yes we co wrote but that's TV writting and yes he fucked up the ending but he also wrote the highs of that show.
He has a LOT of flaws as a writer but being unoriginal is not one of them
Eh, I'll withhold judgement until I see it. That director made Compliance, which is basically the least right-wing movie ever.
He's not a quality guarantee. He's got some duds under his belt too.
Will the twist be "it's purgatory and the rednecks are just being hunted by the ghosts of liberals that they killed?"
Cues misunderstanding of Lost ending joke.
Cues misunderstanding of Lost ending joke.
Given the creative team behind this I feel like there's something major we're missing here. I can't see the director of Compliance and Prince Avalanche making the film described in OP without some wrinkle to it, and Lindelof has earned my benefit of the doubt after Leftovers.
Saw the trailer recently before seeing a movie and this is the last thing I thought of, I'm just gonna go off what I saw instead of this. Didn't plan on seeing the movie though even if I have A List, never seen a Purge and no real desire to see this. Movie with people hunting people just aren't for me I guess.
I'm assuming the "liberal elites" are actually rich right-wingers. Otherwise it's hard to believe this creative team making something like that.
So basically they looked at real life, where Trump-supporting white supremacists are massacring PoC and mowing down left-wing protesters, and said "Yeah but wouldn't it be funny if it was actually the other way around?"
The fuck out of here.
(However, like others have said, several people involved in the movie are very liberal, so there might be something being misunderstood here)
The fuck out of here.
(However, like others have said, several people involved in the movie are very liberal, so there might be something being misunderstood here)
I'm sorry, punching Nazis just feels too good! Next time I'll abide by centrist tone policing, I promise!
Carolina Reaper hot take: the dude has never written or produced a good movie.
So what if the twist is Antifa storms in during the climax mowing down the evil Elites, the racists say thanks for saving us but then Antifa kills them all and says "that's your Jesus' job not ours" *End Credits*
Not sure why so many people think this is a new thing. Taxi Driver was an example of this. American History X. Tarantino's most recent two movies kinda asked the something similar of the audience. The challenge can make for engaging cinema. The Hunt, based on the trailer, just seems to be taking it to a new and weird extreme.
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But we already made God's Not Dead 2, there's no truer story about persecution by the ACLU and the cruel liberals!
I'm all for satirizing the failures of liberal elites, and I'm morbidly curious about the full context, but this sounds, at best, like centrist "the real problem is partisanship" bullshit, and at worst like a full-on MAGA "liberals are the real bigots" fantasy
On one hand this is terrible. On the other hand it's not yet another comic book movie.
Sounds more like a Hollywood executive thought this would be an easy way to make money off of blood thirsty liberals. They won't be the first or last to make the mistake of thinking that liberals are as easily pandered to as conservatives. Fox News exists solely because of how gullible and rage-filled conservatives are.
Uh what lol
I thought it was just the most dangerous game, but the right wingers being hunted by the liberal elite angle is certainly the opposite of what I expected
I thought it was just the most dangerous game, but the right wingers being hunted by the liberal elite angle is certainly the opposite of what I expected