‘The Hunt’ Pulled From Release After Last Weekend’s Mass

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Less than per week after final weekend’s two mass shootings, The Hunt — a satirical thriller regarding rich liberal elites looking MAGA sorts for sport — has been pulled from its September launch date, with no plans for an alternate, stories Deadline.

The determination comes days after the advertising and marketing marketing campaign was placed on maintain, with sure channels, together with ESPN, pulling commercials from broadcast. At the time the transfer concerned the truth that it featured individuals looking individuals with weapons, at a time when individuals had been reeling from the massacres in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, which left not less than 31 useless.

However, the movie took on a distinct degree of notoriety on Friday, when Donald Trump focused the movie in a sequence of indignant tweets, during which he claimed Hollywood was racist, in a transparent try to show the tables on the numerous claiming he’s a white supremacist, or a white supremacist-enabler. (The president didn’t supply any clear or coherent examples of its alleged racism.)

“The movie coming out is made in order… to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence, and then try to blame others. They are the true Racists, and are very bad for our Country!” Trump wrote. Of course, he didn’t identify the film, but it surely didn’t take lengthy for conservative media to suss out which movie he meant.