To Catch A Predator movie has host furious: Hollywood has twisted it into something thats evil

Chris Hansen made his name as the force and face behind “To Catch a Predator,” the controversial television show that specialized in having a video crew following law enforcement as they sprung on suspected (and unsuspecting) pedophiles.Now, with the Sept.25 release of “Primetime,” the roles are reversed.Hansen claims the movie, which stars Robert Pattinson as Hansen, is an inaccurate portrayal of his life and work.“The reality is, the studio and the director set out to make a completely dark work of fiction,” Hansen, who has seen a trailer but not the entire film, told The Post in an exclusive interview.

“It is an insult … I am disappointed that a Hollywood studio would take something that has accomplished so much good and twist it into something that’s evil and overly dramatic.”The trailer depicts Pattinson’s Hansen jumping around with glee over being “bigger than [the hit TV series] ‘Lost,’ ” howling like a monkey and gloating to a stranger on an airplane that what he does is “a little bit worse” than what the stranger describes as wanting to “bleed ’em.”“Nothing in the trailer ever happened in real life,” claimed Hansen, who now does “Takedown with Chris Hansen,” a “Predator”-style show, via his TruBlu streaming service.The movie is, in part, based on a 2007 Esquire article Hansen claimed to The Post was “incomplete.” Entitled “Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die,” the article centered on the suicide of Louis Conradt, an assistant district attorney from Texas who killed himself as his filmed arrest was poised to go down on “Predator.”Asked how he felt about the tragic outcome and whether he regretted airing the segment, Hansen said, “No.

The segment aired just the way it happened … He’s a grown man … who surfaced in a sting operation, talking to two 13-year-old boys, conducting sexually explicit conversations [and] was the target of a police investigation … [he] possessed a handgun and...