{"id":406895,"date":"2025-11-26T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:52:12","slug":"apple-tvs-the-hunt-pulled-from-schedule-amid-plagiarism-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/406895\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV\u2019s \u2018The Hunt\u2019 Pulled From Schedule Amid Plagiarism Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGood luck trying to hunt down any evidence of Apple TV<\/a>\u2019s series The Hunt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNext month\u2019s premiere of The Hunt (Traqu\u00e9s), a French thriller series for Apple TV, has been pulled from the streamer\u2019s schedule amid plagiarism accusations. Furthermore, any official existence of The Hunt has been scrubbed from the web, including photos and screeners on Apple\u2019s press site and the official trailer on YouTube.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe broadcast of our series The Hunt has been temporarily postponed,\u201d a spokesperson for Gaumont said in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter. \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

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\t\t\t\t\tThe Error 404 Page for the Apple TV+ show, The Hunt<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAppleTV\/Screenshot<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunt hails from creator\/director C\u00e9dric Anger (Next Time I\u2019ll Aim for the Heart) and executive producers Isabelle Degeorges, Cl\u00e9mentine Vaudaux, Alexis Barqueiro and Sidonie Dumas. It stars Beno\u00eet Magimel M\u00e9lanie Laurent, Damien Bonnard, Manuel Guillot, C\u00e9dric Appietto, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Maranber, Angelyna Danabe-Mignot, Paul Beaurepaire, Yann Goven, Sarah Pachoud and Patrick De Vallette.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunt was supposed to debut its first two episodes on Dec. 3, 2025. Subsequent episodes were supposed to roll out one per Wednesday through Dec. 31. But now, the show\u2019s future is in serious question.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs first reported by French journalist Clement Garin, The Hunt appears to be an uncredited direct adaptation of Douglas Fairbairn\u2019s 1973 novel Shoot. In 1974, Shoot was translated as The Hunt. The book was adapted into a 1976 movie, Shoot, directed by Harvey Hart and written by Richard Berg.<\/p>\n

\n\tShoot.<\/p>\n

\n\tApple TV\u2019s The Hunt series follows Franck (Magimel) and his hunting buddies, who, one day, come across \u201canother group of hunters who start targeting them without explanation,\u201d the synopsis reads. \u201cWhen one of their party is shot, Franck\u2019s friends strike back, sending an attacker to the ground. Barely managing to escape, the four friends keep the event a secret. Franck tries to go back to his life as usual alongside his wife Krystel (Laurent), but in the next few days, he starts to feel like he and his friends are being watched, or worse, tracked by hunters who are now hell-bent on revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGuess what happens in Shoot<\/a>? Right.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunt is not the first fully finished series Apple has recently pulled from its schedule just ahead of its premiere. Read the saga of Jessica Chastain series The Savant here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it does debut, French programming has served Apple TV well. The streamer\u2019s multilingual (French and Japanese) series Drops of God won best drama at the International<\/a> Emmys. Drops of God season two premieres on Jan. 21, 2026 \u2014 you know, so long as it isn\u2019t discovered alleged to be a total rip off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good luck trying to hunt down any evidence of Apple TV\u2019s series The Hunt. Next month\u2019s premiere of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":406896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4964,171,1801,191874,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-406895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-the-hunt","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115618221320587890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}