"The Hunt," A Film From Universal Studios -- Will It Ever Air?

Here's a trailer for a Universal film scheduled for a September release -- though it may not ever be shown. Called "The Hunt," it shows wealthy liberal patrons of "The Manor," a luxurious hunting camp -- where the game being hunted is MAGA supporters.

"Did anyone see what our ratfucker-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."

The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it's his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. "War is war," says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.

How will a film like this go over after the national trauma of the El Paso/Dayton weekend? A Universal executive says the movie "is meant to show what a stupid, crazy world we live in," adding, "It might even be more powerful now." [The film, scheduled for release in September 2019, was released on March 20, 2020.]