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Deadline studies a brand new English-language Squid Recreation collection is now within the works at Netflix, with Zodiac and Se7en director David Fincher aboard in a growth position.
Although “particulars are obscure” and “Netflix had no remark” when requested to elaborate on the streamer’s newest team-up with the favored filmmaker, the outlet suggests this new Squid Recreation collection will probably be Fincher’s subsequent venture, beginning in 2025. Deadline additionally opined Fincher is an ideal match for the burgeoning franchise—which has since expanded into video video games and an unscripted competitors collection since taking the world by storm in 2021— as a result of “it’s additionally much like his 1997 thriller The Recreation, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. That movie additionally revolves round real-life individuals changing into unwitting contributors in a diabolical sport.” Actually debatable!
Although this would be the very first scripted successor collection to Hwang Dong-hyuk’s revolutionary Squid Recreation at Netflix, it’s removed from Fincher’s solely venture on the firm, whose earlier collaborations with the streamer embody Mindhunter, Home of Playing cards, and Love + Dying and Robots.
Rumors of the director’s involvement with a U.S.-set companion collection to Squid Recreation have been circulating since final summer season, when the Playlist advised Fincher had put his deliberate Chinatown prequel collection on maintain for the chance to come back aboard. Final week, insider Daniel Richtman (through World of Reel) reported his involvement, stating the brand new collection can be an official spinoff titled Squid Recreation: America, providing the prospect for characters from the unique collection to make particular crossover appearances. Based on each sources, Utopia‘s Dennis Kelly could also be concerned with the collection as head author—however for now, that continues to be a rumor.
Conflictingly, Manufacturing Listing suggests Fincher’s subsequent venture is Bitterroot, a “neo-western” scheduled to start filming this January; it’s mentioned to concern “a 78-year-old WWII veteran and Montana rancher burdened by coronary heart illness, diabetes, and medical payments” who “wins a million-dollar sweepstakes,” with not-so-happy outcomes. Come to suppose, the similarity of the 2 initiatives’ themes might even counsel they’re one and the identical, with “Bitterroot” serving as a working title. Stranger issues have occurred at Netflix.
Come what might, it appears Fincher enjoys working for Netflix and, as beforehand famous by Deadline, tales about video games. On that we are able to all agree.
Squid Recreation season two, with returning Emmy-winning star Lee Jung-jae (The Acolyte), hits the streamer November 26.
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