'The Hunt' trivia and fun facts
Secret Revealed
In the movie trailer, Betty Gilpin's character, Crystal, rips an Arkansas license plate off a car to reveal the true license plate below and where they really are: Croatia.
Your story is familiar to me
Based largely on "The Most Dangerous Game," a famous story written by Richard Connell. Other recent film adaptations include: 'Hard Target' (John Woo's first Hollywood movie), 'Surviving the Game' starring Rutger Hauer and Ice-T,' The Pest 'starring John Leguizamo, 'The Eliminator 'starring by UFC champion Bas Rutten.
Based on real words
The elite hunters' reference to their prey as "deplorable" is an allusion to the phrase "deplorable basket", used by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US presidential election campaign to refer to supporters of the then presidential candidate Donald Trump
Satire
The creators Both Zobel and Lindelof have said that this film is a critique of American politics, both left and right parties.
Delayed release
The premiere of the film was scheduled for 2019 but in the summer of that year it was canceled due to the violent reactions that provoked the plot of the film.
Old Coworkers
Actresses Emma Roberts and Amy Madigan coincided as protagonists in another production before, 'Virginia' (2010).
Bigger reasons
The premise of the film joined the fact that at the beginning of August 2019 there were two shootings in the southern United States and, following the criticism of Donald Trump, the distributor had no choice but to postpone its premiere.