We do not precisely want one, however evidently that rumoured English-language remake of Squid Recreation is within the works at Netflix with David Fincher on the helm.
There’s been whispers way back to April 2024 that Netflix had been trying to get Battle Membership director David Fincher connected to an American remake of the ridiculously common Korean sequence Squid Recreation, however there’s not likely been a lot motion since then. Utopia creator David Kelly reportedly joined the undertaking as a author earlier this yr, and contemplating Fincher at one level was planning an American remake of Kelly’s Utopia, that team-up would make a variety of sense. Now, in any case these months of whisperings, Deadline has reported that it is heard Fincher is aboard the Squid Recreation sequence, and that it is prone to be the following massive undertaking the director takes on.
Presumably the sequence can be a remake, that’s fairly par for the course in the case of English variations of sequence, however it’s at all times attainable it is extra of a spin-off. In any case, Netflix would personal the rights to each, and other than the casting, it might be vital to make a distinction between the 2 sequence, so it would not be totally stunning if the English-language model went its personal means. Proper now issues are up within the air about it although, and manufacturing positively would not begin till 2025 on the earliest, if there’s even any scripts prepared but in any respect.
After all, that does not matter an excessive amount of proper now anyway, because the factor Netflix can be centered on in the case of Squid Recreation is that upcoming season 2. The hotly anticipated second season is due out December 26, and whereas not precisely seasonally applicable, a minimum of it is one thing to observe when you’re recovering from Christmas dinner leftovers.
