The Hunt
Ike Barinholtz has joined the casting of Blumhouse and author Damon Lindelof ’s thriller , The Hunt . Blumhouse father Jason Blum now has popular spooky franchise likeInsidious , Paranormal Activity , andThe Purgeunder his knock , in addition to ( for the time being ) one - off hits likeGet Out . However , his CV extends beyond horror to Oscar - deliver the goods moving picture that go genre , like Damien Chazelle’sWhiplashand , most late , Spike Lee’sBlacKkKlansman . Blum already has a fistful of likewise subversive offerings in the pipeline , includingFantasy IslandandThe Hunt .
The latter - which , to clear up , has nothing to do withGet OutfilmmakerJordan Peele ’s Nazi - hunt seriesof the same name - is being written by Lindelof and direct byZ for Zachariahhelmer Craig Zobel ( who antecedently sour with Lindelof onThe Leftovers ) . Production is already under on the movie and the confirmed cast so far includesAmerican Horror Story ’s Emma Roberts , Justin Hartley ( This is Us ) , andIt ’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia ’s Glenn Howerton in leading part . We can now officially add another meddlesome actor to that roll .
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Deadlineis reporting that Barinholtz has been added toThe Hunt ’s cast , in the lead of its theatrical passing later this class on October 18 . The role player is amount off his directorial debut on last year’sThe Oath(which he also costarred in ) and will play a hold role in Mindy Kaling ’s comedyLate Nightin a few month . He will also show up on Peele and CBS All Access’Twilight Zonerevival serial publication , which launches at the beginning of April .
prescribed patch point forThe Huntare being kept under - wraps right now , but it ’s been reported that the cinema will abide by a group of characters being hunt down , a laBattle Royale . Lindelof ’s script has been draw as a political action - thriller , with the logical implication being that those who ’re being run are of a dissimilar political tie-up than those who ’re taste to kill them . Assuming that ’s precise , it sounds like an intriguing path to research the current political atmosphere through the lens of genre . Barinholtz , for his part , did something like onThe Oath , which is a dark satire about a family whose Thanksgiving holiday goes off the bass end as the unmediated solution of an exceedingly controversial White House insurance announcement .
BetweenThe Huntand HBO ’s upcomingWatchmenshow ( which he created ) , Lindelof is clearly looking to add together his two centime to the turgid conversation about the modern political mood and zeitgeist . The author - producer has never been afraid to get ambitious with his screenplays - and though the resulting movies or TV series can be polarizing ( theLOSTfinale , Prometheus , The Leftovers ) , they ’re certainly never boring or uninteresting . That alone bodes well forThe Hunt , especially with Blum produce and Zobel direct what ’s looking like a reasonably solid cast .
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Source : Deadline
