Through PTI
LOS ANGELES: Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who shot to international reputation with hit Korean language sequence “Squid Recreation”, says he’s running on a function movie undertaking “Killing Previous Folks Membership”.
The brand new film, whose running identify is “KO Membership”, is encouraged via a singular penned via Umberto Eco, the overdue Italian creator and thinker.
Hwang was once talking right through a consultation at MipTV Cannes industry truthful in conjunction with his manufacturer Jun-Younger Jang at February Movies, reported Selection.
The director, additionally identified for Korean motion pictures like “Silenced” and “Omit Granny”, teased the drawing close movie can be “extra violent” than “Squid Recreation”.
The survival drama “Squid Recreation”, which was once launched in September 2021 on Netflix, revolves round masses of cash-strapped contestants who settle for a call for participation to compete in a chain of Korean youngsters’s video games for a tempting prize, however the stakes are fatal.
Additionally created via Hwang, the display noticed a bunch of masked workforce in purple jumpsuits arrive and give an explanation for duties to the avid gamers in inexperienced tracksuits who could be given 45.6 billion received (USD 38.3 million) in prize cash if they are able to win six video games over six days.
The director has now shared that he has already penned a 25-page remedy concerning the undertaking which is sure to be “some other arguable” undertaking, he added. “It’s going to be extra violent than ‘Squid Recreation’,” teased Hwang, including that he would possibly have to cover from previous other folks after the movie comes out.
The director additional stated he’ll now go back to local South Korea to jot down the second one season of “Squid Recreation” and hopes to have the display circulation via the tip of 2024.
Consistent with Netflix, the runaway luck of the primary season made the display the streamer’s “largest sequence release” with 111 million perspectives since its debut closing September.
“Squid Recreation” has additionally won a lot of accolades, together with the Golden Globe Award for easiest supporting actor — sequence, miniseries or tv movie for O Yeong-su and the Display screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for remarkable efficiency via a male actor in a drama sequence and remarkable efficiency via a feminine actor in a drama sequence for Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung, respectively, with all 3 making historical past as the primary Korean actors to win in the ones classes.
On the SAG Awards, the display additionally bagged the trophy within the remarkable efficiency via a stunt ensemble in a tv sequence class.