Can a “Squid Recreation” actuality sequence flip round Netflix’s fading fortunes?
The embattled streamer has introduced they’re making a real-life model of the gory South Korean survival present — with manufacturing slated to happen within the UK early subsequent yr.
“Squid Recreation: The Problem” is being billed as “the most important actuality competitors sequence ever created” and can function 456 contestants battling it out for a whopping $4.56 million in prize cash.
In response to a press launch put out by Netflix on Tuesday, the staggering sum would be the largest money prize ever supplied on actuality tv.
“‘Squid Recreation’ took the world by storm with [director] Hwang Dong-hyuk’s charming story and iconic imagery,” Netflix VP Brandon Rieg stated within the launch. “We’re grateful for his help as we flip the fictional world into actuality on this large competitors and social experiment.”
Casting is at present open to English-language audio system over the age of 21 at SquidGameCasting.com. The truth present will function 10 episodes and manufacturing is anticipated to happen over 4 weeks.
The unique “Squid Recreation” — which was launched on Netflix final September — revolved round a contest whereby 456 cash-strapped contestants risked their lives to play a sequence of lethal kids’s video games for a $36 million prize.
The video games within the forthcoming actuality sequence are set to be impressed by the video games within the present, nevertheless they gained’t be fairly as ugly.
“The stakes are excessive, however on this recreation the worst destiny goes dwelling empty-handed,” Tuesday’s press launch learn.
“Squid Recreation” is the most successful Netflix series in history, watched by greater than 142 million households through the first 4 weeks of its launch.
The hit sequence has been renewed for a second season, though it’s not but in manufacturing.
Netflix is hoping the forthcoming actuality present spin-off will maintain followers forking out for his or her month-to-month subscription because the streamer falls on onerous instances.
Again in April, Netflix confirmed it had lost 200,000 subscribers within the first quarter of 2022, falling nicely in need of its forecast of including 2.5 million subscribers.
The corporate supplied a dark prediction for the spring quarter, forecasting it may lose a further 2 million subscribers.
In Could, Netflix introduced it was cutting about 150 jobs — near 2% of their whole workforce.
