{"id":152736,"date":"2025-11-25T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/152736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:37:07","slug":"ip-dispute-delays-gaumonts-thriller-series-for-apple-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/152736\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0IP Dispute Delays Gaumont’s Thriller Series For Apple TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDetails are emerging about Apple TV<\/a>\u2018s decision last week to postpone the premiere of<\/a> The Hunt<\/a> just two weeks before the acquired series from French production company Gaumont<\/a> was due to debut December 3.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt came after questions were raised over the French-language thriller drama, titled Traqu\u00e9s in France, being presented as an original creation from creator, writer and director C\u00e9dric Anger<\/a> in light of perceived plot similarities to Shoot<\/a>, a 1973 novel by American author Douglas Fairbairn.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to sources, Shoot, which has had its own screen adaptation with a 1976 U.S.\/Canadian movie of the same name, had not been brought up as possible source material and was not on Gaumont or Apple TV\u2019s radar until recently.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe similarities were significant enough for Apple TV to halt release plans for The Hunt until the creative origins of the projects are sorted out, a process currently underway at Gaumont. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe broadcast of our series The Hunt has been temporarily postponed,\u201d Gaumont said in a statement to Deadline. \u201cWe are currently conducting a thorough review to address any questions related to our production. We take intellectual property matters very seriously.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn light of the uncertainty over The Hunt\u2018s creation \u2014 and thus its credits \u2014 all information about the show, including the trailer, was removed from Apple\u2019s site and the app last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tFairbairn died in 1997, so any conversations over Shoot would involve his estate. Information about the issue started circulating this week after it was brought up by French journalist Cl\u00e9ment Garin.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn The Hunt, Franck (Beno\u00eet Magimel) and his longtime friends, who spend weekends hunting together, come across another group who begin targeting them for no apparent reason. Despite one of their group being shot, they strike back and manage to escape. However, as Franck goes back to his normal life with wife Krystel (M\u00e9lanie Laurent), he senses he is being watched or tracked by hunters now hell-bent on revenge.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamien Bonnard, Manuel Guillot, C\u00e9dric Appietto, Angelyna Danabe-Mignot, Paul Beaurepaire, Yann Goven, Sarah Pachoud and Patrick De Vallette also star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details are emerging about Apple TV\u2018s decision last week to postpone the premiere of The Hunt just two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8932,92842,146,36646,85,46,92843,92844],"class_list":["post-152736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-apple-tv","tag-cu00e9dric-anger","tag-entertainment","tag-gaumont","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-shoot","tag-the-hunt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}