You might have been waiting for it, and yet it is big news: as a film platform Deadline believe it, there’s probably an English version of it Squid Game (2021– ) coming up. The medium reports that Netflix is having far-reaching discussions with David Fincher, the director of, among others Fight Club (1999) in The Social Network (2010). In recent years, this maker has collaborated with the streaming service several times.
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Know Netflix subscribers Squid Game par excellence as a Korean product, but there is a considerable chance that this mega series will also receive the ‘Hollywood treatment’ in the near future. With the episodes of season 2 still approaching, it is a telling moment to release this news. If the success of the second season comes close to that of the first, it will continue Squid Game will certainly keep people busy in the coming months.
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Sources of Deadline state that David Fincher would like to set his version of the series in the United States, and may be working on the project as soon as next year. It is not far-fetched that the name of this maker is mentioned: Fincher’s previous (cinema) films The Killer (2023) in Lack (2020) got a Netflix release, and before that the director made two seasons of crime drama Mindhunter (2017–2019).
We now have to wait for more news from the camps of Netflix and the director himself. The second season of the Korean Squid Game appears on 26 december.
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