Hollywierd Hypocrisy at its best. No Problem Pushing Movies Full of Violence but Airing Commercials for this Film is suddenly Inappropriate.

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Quote from the movie:

“Did anyone see what our ratf***er-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.”

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The initial batch of press notes also avoids any ideological themes beyond fury at the “elites”:

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 bunch of elites gathers for the very first time at a remote Manor House to hunt humans 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.

The ideological dodge isn’t surprising. The studio likely wants to lure both red and blue state dwellers to theaters. It’s a similar strategy used to promote “Suburbicon,” the 2017 George Clooney dud. That ad campaign completely left out the film’s overt liberal bent.

“The Hunt” is making headlines because the studio behind it, Universal, is skittish about placing ads for the film so close to several mass shootings.

That’s Hollywood hypocrisy at its most basic. The industry has no qualms delivering movies chockablock with gun violence, but airing commercials for those films is suddenly inappropriate.

The bigger questions remain unsolved.

Can a mainstream movie really show the two sides of our ongoing political war trying to kill each other at this contentious point in American history?

Will the social media mob cancel the movie before its release date?

Is it responsible for a major film studio to depict the red/blue divide in such a bloody fashion?

Finally, why would an avowed Trump hater like Blum make movie where we feel sympathy for MAGA nation? (that’s assuming the film follows the aforementioned stalker movie blueprint)

The latter question is the biggest mystery. Blum’s rage against Trump is well documented. His “Purge” franchise slams the GOP, Trump and American Christians. His production company created “The Loudest Voice,” the Showtime miniseries attacking both Fox News and its ties to Trump.