\n\tOlivia Hill wrote the script. Hill and Young are a Chicago-based queer married writing duo who have developed the \u201ciHunt\u201d universe over seven novels released during 10 years under their Machine Age Productions banner. Hill is a trans woman, and the project is LGBTQIA+-led.<\/p>\n
\n\tScott Glosserman, who helmed both \u201cBehind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon\u201d and its currently-in-production sequel<\/a>, is set to direct. Jess Elgene is featured as Sandra, a new character created for the film. The project will be filmed in association with Anarchists United Studios, with Lilly Wachowski<\/a> (\u201cThe Matrix\u201d), Sarah Marie Flores and Lawrence Mattis set as executive producers. The feature is also produced by Matt Skrobalak (Butler Hall Productions), Stirling Matheson (Bravura Arts and Entertainment Ltd.) and Hill and Filamena Young (Machine Age Productions).<\/p>\n \n\tPer the official synopsis, \u201cSet in the fictional California city of San Jenaro, #iHunt follows a trio of women who are best friends navigating monster-hunting through a gig-work app, blending horror-comedy with sharp socioeconomic commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c#iHunt has been our focus for the past 10 years, and we want nothing more than to bring it to a wider audience,\u201d Hill and Young said in a statement. \u201cSupernatural horror has always been an amazing tool for telling stories about the very real problems people face. And if you\u2019ve stood up to eviction and Dracula, you know eviction can be so much scarier.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhat drew me to Olivia\u2019s script is how cleverly she uses the conventions of horror to explore something genuinely frightening, which is the illusion of choice in a world where survival itself has become a gig. It\u2019s irreverent, provocative and supremely entertaining, but beneath all the monsters and mayhem is a story about what freedom really means when you can\u2019t afford to say no. That\u2019s the kind of genre storytelling I love,\u201d Glosserman also said in a statement.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAnarchists United is thrilled to be on board with #iHunt and support Olivia Hill and Filamena Young\u2019s referential and all too relatable world of late late-stage capitalism in the vampiric age,\u201d Anarchists United said in a statement. \u201cEven in afterdeath, access to health insurance bites, but besties are worth fighting for.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to the movie, a TV pilot written by Hill and Young is also in development, with Anne Cofell Saunders (\u201cThe Boys\u201d) attached as showrunner.<\/p>\n \n\tPer the pilot\u2019s logline, \u201cSet in the same city with an entirely different cast of characters, the pilot follows Lana, who leads a crew of broke hunters taking gigs through the app until a routine hospital job turns into a full-blown monster infestation and puts them on the radar of Arthur, an ancient vampire executive.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHill and Young have also created \u201c#iHunt: A Night in the Life,\u201d a vertical series in which, per the logline, \u201cHannah, a struggling hunter, figures out the real money is in content and starts livestreaming her monster hunts.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tElgene is represented by Artists First and Resolute Artists Agency. Glosserman is represented by attorney Tanya Mallean of Skrzyniarz & Mallean. Matheson is represented by attorney Arthur Evrensel of MEP Business Counsel.<\/p>\n \n\tSee the key art for the project below.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy ilustration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wholly modern horror story is set to get the feature treatment. \u201ciHunt: Killing Monsters in the Gig…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,282463,60,91993,80],"class_list":["post-666883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ihunt-killing-monsters-in-the-gig-economy","tag-ireland","tag-lilly-wachowski","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
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