The rumored English Squid Sport collection from David Fincher is selecting up some steam, with Deadline lately reporting the challenge might be his subsequent.
In a latest report, Deadline talked about that Fincher is engaged on the challenge, having joined on to develop it. The report notes although the Struggle Membership director may nonetheless movie an image between from time to time, the Squid Sport collection is “seemingly” what he’s set to work on all through 2025.
This isn’t the primary time that stories of an English Squid Sport from Netflix have popped up. Final yr, it was additionally reported that Fincher had been eyed to helm the challenge.
What do we all know in regards to the English Squid Sport collection?
Earlier stories from The InSneider’s Jeff Sneider steered that Netflix was thinking about making an American model of the present, though Sneider famous that he didn’t know what a U.S. model of Squid Sport would seem like. Nonetheless, he did point out that some audiences’ insistence on not watching overseas language properties is one other factor that would make Netflix lean into remaking the collection.
Fincher’s newest work consists of the 2023 motion thriller The Killer for Netflix, in addition to 2020’s Mank, which was additionally a Netflix challenge.
Squid Sport hails from writer-director Hwang Dong-Hyuk, who’s greatest identified for his works on South Korean movies akin to The Fortress, Miss Granny, and Silenced. It facilities round a bunch of 456 cash-strapped gamers who settle for a wierd invitation to compete in youngsters’s video games at a distant island in hopes of profitable 456 billion received. Nonetheless, they quickly discover out that the prize comes with lethal excessive stakes.
A second season of the hit Netflix collection is about to premiere on December 26, 2024.
(Supply: Deadline)
