Squid Game creators new movie sounds even more disturbing than the Netflix series

Date:
Wed, 06 Apr 2022 15:09:01 +0000

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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said his upcoming movie, Killing Old People Club, will be even more violent than his hit Netflix series.

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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has hinted that his upcoming project, a movie called Killing Old People Club, wont be one for the squeamish.

"It will be more violent than Squid Game ," the director revealed in a recent interview with Variety , adding that the feature is sure to be another controversial film.

We know that Killing Old People Club is based on an unnamed novel by Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco, though details surrounding its plot remain under wraps for now. Eco, who died in 2016, was known for producing works with a focus on philosophy and religion so theres a good chance these themes could play into Hwangs secretive project.

In our book, though, its equally likely that the Miss Granny and The Fortress director may have simply written a stylish screenplay about young people killing old people.

Blood-soaked slasher flicks have experienced something of a resurgence of late, with Texas Chainsaw Massacre and All of Us Are Dead among the genres most recent examples, and Hwangs assertion that his upcoming movie will be even more violent than Squid Game forebodes an equally gruesome picture.

A film of that ilk wouldnt appear totally alien to Korean audiences, either. The likes of Oldboy, Train to Busan and The Handmaiden have proven their willingness (and Korean directors' tendency) to embrace the graphic, so its a sure bet that Hwang will continue the trend with Killing Old People Club.

Variety reports that he's now submitted a 25-page treatment for the highly-anticipated project, but its not likely to hit screens until 2023, at the earliest. When is Squid Game season 2 coming?



In the same Variety interview, Hwang also revealed that he is soon returning home to South Korea to begin work on Squid Game season 2 , which he hopes
will arrive on Netflix in 2024.

The hit Netflix series took the world by storm in 2021, inspiring everything from real-life robot dolls to amateur video game adaptations on its way to becoming the biggest show in the streamers history (after just 28 days, Squid Game racked up an unprecedented 1.6 billion viewing hours ). Audiences spent more than 182,000 years watching Squid Game in its first four weeks of
release (Image credit: Netflix)

In doing so, the survival series also quite literally changed the game for
how Netflix measures the success of its movies and TV shows. Following Squid Games popularity, the streaming service shifted away from the two-minute-per-view metric it had previously used to instead record the total hours watched within a titles first month of release.

As a result, its now much easier for fans to see the biggest Netflix series (and the biggest Netflix movies ) in any given week though no project has
yet threatened Squid Games crown.

Squid Game season 2 was officially renewed by Netflix in January 2021, when co-CEO Ted Sarandos was quoted as saying that "the Squid Game universe has just begun." We knew director Hwang was working on a movie project (which we now know to be Killing Old People Club) at the time, so it isnt too much of a surprise to hear that new Squid Game episodes wont be arriving for some time.

To ease the wait, check out our breakdown of the Squid Game ending , which poses big questions about what to expect from the shows second season. Finished Squid Game? These are more of the best Netflix series to stream today



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