Can a “Squid Sport” actuality collection 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 Sport: The Problem” is being billed as “the largest actuality competitors collection 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 provided on actuality tv.
“‘Squid Sport’ 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 huge competitors and social experiment.”
Casting is presently open to English-language audio system over the age of 21 at SquidGameCasting.com. The fact present will function 10 episodes and manufacturing is anticipated to happen over 4 weeks.
The unique “Squid Sport” — which was launched on Netflix final September — revolved round a contest whereby 456 cash-strapped contestants risked their lives to play a collection of lethal kids’s video games for a $36 million prize.
The video games within the forthcoming actuality collection are set to be impressed by the video games within the present, nevertheless they received’t be fairly as grotesque.
“The stakes are excessive, however on this recreation the worst destiny goes residence empty-handed,” Tuesday’s press launch learn.
“Squid Sport” is the most profitable Netflix collection in historical past, watched by greater than 142 million households through the first 4 weeks of its launch.
The hit collection has been renewed for a second season, though it's not but in manufacturing.
Netflix is hoping the forthcoming actuality present spin-off will hold followers forking out for his or her month-to-month subscription because the streamer falls on laborious occasions.
Again in April, Netflix confirmed it had misplaced 200,000 subscribers within the first quarter of 2022, falling effectively wanting its forecast of including 2.5 million subscribers.
The corporate provided a dismal prediction for the spring quarter, forecasting it might lose a further 2 million subscribers.
In Might, Netflix introduced it was slicing about 150 jobs — near 2% of their complete workforce.
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