Overview
- Wachowski told KCRW’s The Business that financiers “really don’t want to make” The Hunted because it features a “wall-to-wall trans cast,” leaving the $10 million thriller without traditional backing.
- The Hunted is co-written with Wachowski’s partner Mickey Ray Mahoney and is in development at Wachowski’s Anarchists United with Natasha Lyonne producing through her Ariadne banner.
- Wachowski staged a public table read of the script at Los Angeles’ Dynasty Typewriter on Aug. 7–8 as a way to show the material to audiences and industry observers.
- Faced with funding barriers she is investing in trans-led short films and pursuing nonprofit and grassroots pathways to build audience support and prove the project’s viability to potential backers.
- Coverage links the financing struggle to a wider industry retrenchment that has reduced on-screen LGBTQ and trans representation, a trend advocates and studies say limits opportunities for marginalized creators.