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Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won’t finance her dystopian thriller The Hunted, a project with a wall-to-wall trans cast budgeted at about $10 million. She’s exploring alternatives—like a live table read at Dynasty Typewriter—and other routes to bring the story to audiences, citing industry barriers for films with underrepresented voices.
Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won’t finance her dystopian thriller The Hunted because it features a “wall-to-wall trans cast,” despite interest in the script. The project, co-written with Mickey Ray Mahoney and budgeted at about $10 million, is being developed with Natasha Lyonne’s Ariadne banner and Anarchists United, and Wachowski says she must find alternative ways to get it in front of audiences. The film centers on two trans women navigating oppression and resistance in a future America, and the piece situates this struggle in the broader industry context, including a GLAAD study showing zero transgender characters in 2025 major distributor films.
Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won’t back her $10 million thriller The Hunted because it has a wall-to-wall trans cast, so she’s seeking alternative funding routes while portraying industry reticence toward trans-led projects.