{"id":111943,"date":"2020-03-12T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=111943"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T11:14:43","slug":"five-minutes-with-jason-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/five-minutes-with-jason-blum\/","title":{"rendered":"Five minutes with\u2026 Jason Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"

How did you get involved with The Hun<\/em>t?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well [director] Craig Zobel [and writers] Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof developed it and went out to the market place with it with Craig attached to direct it. It was quite competitive but I loved it. And later I learned that Damon said he wanted to make a Blumhouse movie, so I was in pole position but I didn\u2019t know that at the time. They played their cards very close to their chests!<\/p>\n

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Craig Zobel (pictured) was involved in the project from the beginning…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What were your first thoughts when you read the script?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It checked every box for Blumhouse! It was subversive, visceral, unique and scary and exciting\u2026 I loved the script. It\u2019s an absolute roller coaster – one minute you\u2019re laughing and then the next you\u2019re cringing with gore. It pulls on every emotion!<\/p>\n

We thought Betty Gilpin was great in the movie\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Me too! I can\u2019t imagine the movie with anyone else in that part, she just does great. She\u2019s like the movie; she keeps you guessing the whole time.<\/p>\n

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Betty Gilpin’s performance will keep you guessing…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We\u2019ve heard of people seeing similarities between The Hunt<\/em> and The Purge<\/em> have you heard that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t but I can see that, I get why people would say that. That\u2019s interesting. It\u2019s a cross between The Purge<\/strong><\/em> and Get Out!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The movie was famously pulled from theatres in 2019 after two mass shootings in the US. What are your thoughts now it\u2019s been released in cinemas?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really wanted people to see it and to see it theatrically I really wanted that. I didn\u2019t want it to go to streaming, so I\u2019m really happy. It was a really long road to get here. But I\u2019m really glad we did.<\/p>\n

Has the controversy surrounding The Hunt<\/em> put you off making politically-charged movies?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The opposite. Everyone telling me to shut up just makes me louder!<\/p>\n