Netflix Sets Premiere Month for Squid Game: The Challenge

Netflix is ready to return to the Squid Game’s deadly arena, but it won’t be with the second season of the South Korean fictional series but the competition show inspired by it. As fans awaited for the next installment on the original series, which still doesn’t have a premiere date, the streaming platform is ready to expand the franchise centered on one of its most successful productions of all time with Squid Game: The Challenge.

Now Deadline reports that during the company’s upfront, celebrated on Wednesday, it was announced that the competition show will arrive at the service’s screen in November. The series will feature 456 players competing for a $4.56M cash prize, which is the largest a competition show has ever offered. The ten part series, just as the original one, will have the contestants competing to eliminate each other in different games inspired by Squid Game and some new scenarios especially created for the show.

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Squid Game: The Challenge might not be the only side project related to the South Korean production heading to Netflix besides the second season of the series, since recent rumores indicated that the platform was considering developing a US version of the series since the new episodes from the original could take a long time to arrive.

The series was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Cho Sang-woo, Heo Sung, Wi Ha-Joon, Lee Yoo-mi, Tripathi Anupam, and Kim Joo-ryeong.

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What to Expect from Squid Game Season 2?

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In the first season of Squid Game, a group of people who are going through a difficult time in their lives are invited to participate in a game for a big prize. At first glance, it seems just a childish game dynamic taken to a higher level, but in reality it is a death trap, since those who do not win each of the games, die until only one comes out alive and takes the money.

Jung-jae, who will soon join the Star Wars universe on The Acolyte, plays Gi-hun, a man who ends up in the games because his life is a real disaster and needs money to make it through the day. After surviving the last game, Jung-jae tries to discover the truth behind the games, and ends up facing the mastermind behind the sinister competition, who was always in the arena with him.

In the second season, he is expected to return to the site of the arena to expose the ruthless organization and seek revenge for all who fell during the games he was part of. Beyond Seong’s return and his quest to reveal the truth to the rest of the world, Netflix has not released any further details regarding the long-awaited second season of the series that became a worldwide phenomenon.

Currently, Squid Game is in the number one position of the most viewed series on the platform, surpassing the successful fourth season of Stranger Things, Wednesday, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, and Money Heist season 5.

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