Artists Equity Unveils Slithery Docu ‘The Python Hunt’ At SXSW
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Slithering into SXSW this afternoon at the Alamo Lamar, The Python Hunt is a documentary that might do for the Burmese Python what Jaws did 50 years ago for the Great White Shark.
The acquisition title is the third documentary backed by Artists Equity, the company hatched by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Redbird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale.
Directed by Xander Robin from an idea by producer Lance Oppenheim, the docu lays out as a Hands On A Hardbody-type quest as amateurs and pros gather in the Everglades to hunt and kill the Burmese Pythons that local government maintain got into the waterways and has decimated the indigenous creatures that called the swamps home.
How does one capture a Burmese Python that grows as long as 20 feet with a propensity to coil around its enemies and squeeze the life out of them?
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