The Hunt’s Jason Blum – ‘I Would Take Out The Current Administration’

Bleeding Cool News ^ | August 12, 2019 | Rich Johnston

[Behind Liberal Lines]

There’s been a lot of heat of late over the release of The Hunt, a movie written by Nick Cuse and Damon Lindel in which twelve Republican-supporting strangers wake up in a clearing and realize that they’re being hunted by liberal elites, calling them ‘deplorables’.

Universal will no longer be releasing the BlumHouse film on September 27th as planned. They initially paused marketing campaign for the film, then stated that “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. 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.”

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Nevertheless, producer of the movie and founder of BlumHouse Productions, Jason Blum had already made his opinions about Trump and the current administration rather clear.

When he was doing press for Happy Death Day, the movie he produced a couple of years ago, they asked him what he would do if he could keep reliving the same day, and would be able to act without any consequences. While director Chris Landon said he would eat and eat and eat, Jason Blum said “I would take out the current administration” followed by laughter by Landon. Blum, however, looked rather serious…

[YogicCowboy]

I do not find John Nolte convincing - or impartial. (I had already read that at the source.) One could just as easily say that it would discourage such. Either effect is a separate issue from what exactly the film portrays.

The Hunt, done by the man who was booed at the Israel Film Festival, and who masterminded the anti-conservative The Purge franchise, was not going to be an unambiguously pro-Deplorable story, no matter how Whollyweird-loving Nolte (or the writer at NR) spin it.

Full disclosure: I do not consider Nolte a conservative; I consider him a rather amoral secularist with libertarian/anarchist inclinations.

He literally reveres Woody Allen and Quentin Tarentino, both of whom I instinctively have always avoided as creepy, egocentric perverts. I certainly do not consider them creative geniuses.

Nolte also ends many articles or reviews with, “I miss T&A!” That is not my idea of professional, conservative journalism.

That is not mere ad hominem. My point is that I do not trust his philosophical compass - at all.

[x]

I have a feeling the “Deplorables” win at the end of the film, even lefties make progressives the villan on occasion just to make a plot less formulaic (for Hollywood).

Sort of. From what I understand it's complicated.

It's not that the movie is saying "Go liberals. Deplorables are not human. Hunt and kill them." There was more complexity than that.

The liberal hunters are the villains. What they're doing is shown to be evil and you root for the heroine.

But the heroine isn't a typical deplorable either, so in theory viewers might identify with her and root for her, but still think hating and killing Trump supporters is a good thing.

So it's complicated. The original outraged response to the film wasn't entirely wrong -- or entirely right.

But like I said, I'm getting this all second-, third- or fourth-hand, so I could be wrong.

[sergeantdave]

“So now somebody make a social thriller about hunting bat-shit crazy liberals ! Or would that never happen????”

If it happened, it might be called “Death Wish.”