Netflix is turning Squid Game into a real-life game show - The Verge

Netflix’s Squid Game is becoming a real-life game show with a huge cash prize, even though the original series is about people murdering each other to pay off their debts.

Netflix’s Squid Game, a series about people risking their lives and sometimes killing one another on television in order to pay off their crippling debts, is becoming an actual game show.

Though Netflix only just announced that Squid Game will return for a second season, today the streamer shared its plans to expand the Battle Royale-esque franchise with a real-world game show inspired by the fictional competition at the center of the original series. Like Squid Game, Squid Game: The Challenge (not to be confused with MTV’s The Challenge) will pit 456 players from across the globe against one another as they fight for a $4.56 million prize that only one participant can ultimately claim.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/14/23167772/squid-game-the-challenge-netflix

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