“Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk talked about the new film he’s directing called “Killing Old People Club” — and he promised it will be “more violent” than the dystopian Netflix series.
During the South Korean filmmakers’ appearance at MipTV, along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, he talked about the feature film he’s working on — which is an adaptation of the works from Italian philosopher and writer Umberto Eco, reported Variety in a piece published Monday.
The director said he’s already written a 25-page treatment for the film version and promised that it’s going to be “another controversial film.”
“It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game,'” Hwang shared, as he joked the might have to hide from old people after the movie comes out. The current working title for the project is “K.O. Club.”
Hwang Dong-hyuk says “Killing Old People Club” is “another controversial film,” and yep, it sure sounds like it. https://t.co/pShzN8n8mG
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Hwang also talked about his hit Netflix series and made it clear the second season is not something that’s going to be happening anytime soon. He explained that he hopes it will be on the streaming site by end of 2024.
“I’m not really in the right place to be discussing season 2 in an official setting, but if there were to be a season 2, in the first season that we saw Gi-hun is a character whose humanity is shown through or exposed in certain situations,” Hwang explained during a virtual panel, as reported previously by Entertainment Weekly. “In other words, his humanity is shown through a very passive manner. But I would think that in the second season, what he has learned from the games and his experience in the first season, they will all be put to use in a more active manner.”
“And at the same time, as for the Front Man [Lee Byung-hun] who was also a past winner but became a Front Man, it’s like Darth Vader,” he added. “Some end up Jedi and some become Darth Vader, right? I think that maybe Gi-hun will go through a certain critical point where he is put through a test as well.”
As previously reported by the Daily Wire:
The South Korean drama, which debuted on September 17, is now the number one hit in more than 90 countries and has quickly become Netflix’s most-watched original show of all time. Dubbed in English for American viewers, it centers on a group of debt-ridden adults who are recruited by a shadowy organization to play children’s games to the death in exchange for big payouts.
As first reported by Reuters, state-run North Korean news outlet Arirang Meari said on October 12 that “Squid Game’s” dystopian storyline warns of the “hell-like horror” of capitalist cultures where “only money matters” and added that in free-market nations “corruption and immoral scoundrels are commonplace.” The article also claimed the show “makes people realize the sad reality of the beastly South Korean society in which human beings are driven into extreme competition and their humanity is being wiped out.”
“It is the current South Korean society where the number of losers in fierce competition such as employment, real estate and stocks increases dramatically,” the article said.
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