Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has hinted that his upcoming venture, a film known as Killing Previous Folks Membership, gained’t be one for the squeamish.
“It is going to be extra violent than Squid Sport (opens in new tab),” the director revealed in a latest interview with Selection (opens in new tab), including that the function is certain to be “one other controversial movie.”
We all know that Killing Previous Folks Membership relies on an unnamed novel by Italian novelist and thinker Umberto Eco, although particulars surrounding its plot stay beneath wraps for now. Eco, who died in 2016, was recognized for producing works with a concentrate on philosophy and faith – so there’s a very good probability these themes might play into Hwang’s secretive venture.
In our e-book, although, it’s equally probably that the Miss Granny and The Fortress director could have merely written a classy screenplay about younger individuals killing previous individuals.
Blood-soaked slasher flicks have skilled one thing of a resurgence of late, with Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath (opens in new tab) and All of Us Are Lifeless among the many style’s most up-to-date examples, and Hwang’s assertion that his upcoming film shall be much more violent than Squid Sport forebodes an equally grotesque image.
A movie of that ilk wouldn’t seem completely alien to Korean audiences, both. The likes of Oldboy, Prepare to Busan and The Handmaiden have confirmed their willingness (and Korean administrators’ tendency) to embrace the graphic, so it’s a positive wager that Hwang will proceed the pattern with Killing Previous Folks Membership.
Selection experiences that he is now submitted a 25-page remedy for the highly-anticipated venture, nevertheless it’s not prone to hit screens till 2023, on the earliest.
When is Squid Sport season 2 coming?
In the identical Selection interview, Hwang additionally revealed that he’s quickly returning residence to South Korea to start work on Squid Sport season 2, which he hopes will arrive on Netflix in 2024.
The hit Netflix sequence took the world by storm in 2021, inspiring every little thing from real-life robotic dolls to novice online game diversifications on its option to turning into the most important present within the streamer’s historical past (after simply 28 days, Squid Sport racked up an unprecedented 1.6 billion viewing hours).
In doing so, the survival sequence additionally fairly actually modified the sport for the way Netflix measures the success of its films and TV reveals. Following Squid Sport’s recognition, the streaming service shifted away from the two-minute-per-view metric it had beforehand used to as a substitute report the full hours watched inside a title’s first month of launch.
In consequence, it’s now a lot simpler for followers to see the greatest Netflix sequence (and the greatest Netflix films) in any given week – although no venture has but threatened Squid Sport’s crown.
Squid Sport season 2 was formally renewed by Netflix in January 2021, when co-CEO Ted Sarandos was quoted as saying that “the Squid Sport universe has simply begun.” We knew director Hwang was engaged on a film venture (which we now know to be Killing Previous Folks Membership) on the time, so it isn’t an excessive amount of of a shock to listen to that new Squid Sport episodes gained’t be arriving for a while.
To ease the wait, try our breakdown of the Squid Sport ending, which poses massive questions on what to anticipate from the present’s second season.
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