Movies - The Hunt : discover the trailer

By Mulder, 27 february 2020

The most talked about movie of the year is the one nobody has seen … yet.

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they’ve been chosen… for a very specific purpose … The Hunt.

In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, a group of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But the elites’ master plan is about to be derailed because one of The Hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin, GLOW), knows The Hunters’ game better than they do. She turns the tables on the killers, picking them off, one by one, as she makes her way toward the mysterious woman (two-time Oscar® winner Hilary Swank) at the center of it all.

From Jason Blum, the producer of Get Out and The Purge series, and Damon Lindelof, creator of the HBO series Watchmen and co-creator of the TV series Lost, comes a timely and provocative new satirical thriller that has already ignited a national conversation. Now, it’s time to decide for yourself. The Hunt is written by Lindelof and his fellow Watchmen collaborator Nick Cuse and is directed by Craig Zobel (Z for Zachariah, The Leftovers). Blum produces for his Blumhouse Productions alongside Lindelof. The film is executive produced by Zobel, Cuse and Steven R. Molen.

Synopsis :
Loosely based on the 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, the film follows 12 strangers who mysteriously wake up in a clearing.They do not know where they are or how they got there. They discover that they have been chosen to be hunted in a game devised by a group of elites. The hunters gather in a remote facility called the Manor House, but their sport gets derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal (Betty Gilpin), fights back and starts killing them one by one.

The Hunt
Directed by Craig Zobel
Produced by Jason Blum, Damon Lindelof
Written by Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Based on "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
Starring Betty Gilpin, Ike Barinholtz, Emma Roberts, Hilary Swank
Music by Nathan Barr
Cinematography : Darran Tiernan
Edited by Jane Rizzo
Production company : Blumhouse Productions, White Rabbit Productions
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date : March 13, 2020 (United States)

Photos : Copyright Universal Pictures
(Source : press release)