Controversial Movie “The Hunt” to be released March 13th

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Blumhouse Productions’ horror-thriller The Hunt will be released on March 13, seven months after the film was pulled from the schedule in reaction to criticisms by President Donald Trump.

In the movie, which stars Betty Gilpin, a group of liberal-minded people hunts conservatives for sport. The film was originally scheduled for release on Sept. 27 of last year but Universal pulled the film’s trailers and marketing materials following two mass shootings that killed 31 people in El, Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on Aug. 3 and 4.

On Aug. 6, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that in the screenplay, one character refers to “slaughtering a dozen deplorables.” The phrase “basket of deplorables” was infamously used by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election to refer to Trump supporters.

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On Monday afternoon, Blumhouse founder Jason Blum and The Hunt co-writer Damon Lindelof spoke to journalists about Trump’s criticisms after a screening of the film in Los Angeles.

“My overwhelming feeling then was what it is now, which is that I wish that he had seen it,” said Lindelof, whose many other writing credits include the TV shows Lost and Watchmen. “The movie that he was talking about was not the movie that I feel that we made. It was the movie that it was being reported on.

So, if he had said, ‘This is a piece of s—, I’m sorry I wasted my time,’ that would have felt better because at least he was talking about the movie.”

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