Apple TV pulls The Hunt over plagiarism accusation

Apple TV removed The Hunt from its streaming slate past week aft concerns were raised astir plagiarism. The move, antecedently reported by Apple Insider, comes aft French media writer Clément Garin claimed that the communicative intimately follows Shoot, a 1974 caller written by Douglas Fairbairn.

The Hunt was primitively expected to premiere connected Apple TV connected December 3rd. However, Gaumont, the accumulation institution down The Hunt, confirmed its removal from Apple’s streaming schedule. “The broadcast of our bid ‘The Hunt’ has been temporarily postponed,” Gaumont tells Variety. “We are presently conducting a thorough reappraisal to code immoderate questions related to our production. We instrumentality intelligence spot matters precise seriously.”

The French thriller follows Franck and a radical of friends who brushwood a hostile radical of hunters portion connected a hunting trip. Here’s the logline, according to Variety: 

Franck (Magimel) and his longtime friends bask spending their weekends hunting together, but 1 Sunday, they travel crossed different radical of hunters who commencement targeting them without explanation. When 1 of their enactment is shot, Franck’s friends onslaught back, sending an attacker to the ground. Barely managing to escape, the 4 friends support the lawsuit a secret. Franck tries to spell backmost to his beingness arsenic accustomed alongside his wife, Krystel (Laurent), but successful the adjacent fewer days, helium starts to consciousness similar helium and his friends are being watched, oregon worse, tracked by hunters who are present hell-bent connected revenge.

Meanwhile, Fairbairn’s Shoot, which was adapted into a movie successful 1976, surrounds an “uber-macho hunter” named Rex. During a hunting travel to Canada, Rex and his friends are attacked by a radical of rival hunters. When 1 of them gets shot, different 1 of Rex’s friends fires back, sidesplitting 1 of the attackers, according to the book’s description:

From determination Rex and institution scurry disconnected and caput backmost to civilization. Rex decides not to interaction the authorities astir the killing, betting the rival hunters volition respond the aforesaid way…. He looks up the murdered man’s individuality and tracks down his widow. She reveals that her deceased hubbie’s buddies assertion helium was killed by a “stray bullet”. This doesn’t wholly fulfill Rex, however, who becomes convinced that the dormant man’s companions are going to travel aft him and his friends.

Apple TV besides postponed the debut of The Savant successful September, which follows an researcher (Jessica Chastain) who tries to infiltrate online hatred groups to halt home coercion attacks. The Verge reached retired to Apple and Gaumont with requests for comment, but didn’t instantly perceive back.