‘Squid Game’ director Hwang Dong-hyuk units ‘Killing Old People Club’ as his subsequent movie

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who shot to international fame with hit Korean language sequence “Squid Game”, says he’s engaged on a function movie mission “Killing Old People Club”.

The new film, whose working title is “KO Club”, is impressed by a novel penned by Umberto Eco, the late Italian creator and thinker.

Hwang was talking throughout a session at MipTV Cannes commerce honest alongside together with his producer Jun-Young Jang at February Films, reported Variety.

The director, additionally recognized for Korean movies like “Silenced” and “Miss Granny”, teased the forthcoming movie shall be “more violent” than “Squid Game”.

The survival drama “Squid Game”, which was launched in September 2021 on Netflix, revolves round lots of of cash-strapped contestants who settle for an invite to compete in a sequence of Korean youngsters’s video games for a tempting prize, however the stakes are lethal.

Also created by Hwang, the present noticed a gaggle of masked workers in pink jumpsuits arrive and clarify duties to the gamers in inexperienced tracksuits who could be given 45.6 billion gained (USD 38.3 million) in prize cash if they’ll win six video games over six days.

The director has now shared that he has already penned a 25-page remedy in regards to the mission which is sure to be “another controversial” mission, he added. “It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game’,” teased Hwang, including that he might need to cover from previous folks after the movie comes out.

The director additional mentioned he’ll now return to native South Korea to put in writing the second season of “Squid Game” and hopes to have the present stream by the tip of 2024.

According to Netflix, the runaway success of the primary season made the present the streamer’s “biggest series launch” with 111 million views since its debut final September.

“Squid Game” has additionally acquired quite a few accolades, together with the Golden Globe Award for greatest supporting actor — sequence, miniseries or tv movie for O Yeong-su and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for excellent efficiency by a male actor in a drama sequence and excellent efficiency by a feminine actor in a drama sequence for Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung, respectively, with all three making historical past as the primary Korean actors to win in these classes.

At the SAG Awards, the present additionally bagged the trophy within the excellent efficiency by a stunt ensemble in a tv sequence class.