Reality meets fiction – but not too much, we hope – in Netflix’s new production inspired by South Korea’s popular dystopian series The squid game (Squid Game). The record sum for a television show of 4.56 million US dollars, or nearly 6 million Canadian dollars, is at stake.
Reality TV Squid Game: The Challenge is being recruited worldwide. The production is looking to hire 456 players who can speak English. As in the series, unilingual instructions will be sent via megaphone, and everyone should understand them.
The project was announced Tuesday at the Banff International Media Festival in British Columbia, in a roundtable discussion attended by Bela Baraja, big boss of TV subsidiary Netflix.
The platform also confirmed that the creator and director of squid gameHwang Dong-hyuk, who is currently working on 2e season of the series, gave his support to this reality show.
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The various challenges to be faced Squid Game: The Challenge will be the inspiration of the fiction series. However, it is not yet known whether the kitten will be given in full to the winner or whether a portion will be paid to the finalists.
The realization of such competition, described by Netflix as a massive social experimentwill cause significant logistical difficulties.
Since the production could not predict who would succeed in winning the various challenges, it had to facilitate research on 456 competitors from the start of the game to offer the public a montage that allows them to follow the candidates. throughout the program. and the game’s most outstanding-only candidates.
The first season of squid gamereleased in September 2021, became the most popular series in Netflix history, with a record 1.65 billion hours watched in the first 28 days of broadcast.
Squid Game: The Challenge will be divided into 10 shows. Filming will take place in the UK on an unspecified date.
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