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Series 7: The Contenders
“I saw you on TV. I love you!”
A Reality TV Satire Takes on The Most Dangerous GameBefore The Hunger Games and the reality TV boom of the 2000s, writer-director Daniel Minahan conceived Series 7: The Contenders as a TV show in the mid-90s. After networks passed on the concept, he developed it into a feature film that would serve as a prescient satire of reality television and American gun culture. With a small budget and shooting on digital video to authentically capture the TV aesthetic of the era, Minahan crafted his dark vision of an alternate present where random citizens are forced to…
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