He showed up The first teaser for Netflix’s new reality series, which we hope is loosely inspired by the story of Squid Game (Hungarian title: Win your life!). Squid Game: The Challenge will see 456 players compete for a record prize money of $4.56 million.
Netflix hasn’t revealed much about the competition yet, other than that “each player will be pushed to their own limits and forced to ask themselves how far they will go to win” and “expect opportunistic alliances, clever strategies, and timely betrayals.” “.
Squid Game: The Challenge was filmed at Cardington Studios near Bedford, UK, and produced by Studio Lambert and The Garden.
Earlier this year, the series was hit with a major scandal after The Sun reported that contestants spent hours in -3C temperatures and had to remain completely still to win the first part of the reality show, Red Light, Green Light, a game called… Into the sun, some players suffered from frostbite.
The company, along with Studio Lambert and The Garden, confirmed in a statement that three people were treated for “minor health issues” on set, but added that claims of serious injuries during the filming of the reality show were false. “Although it was very cold on set — and the participants were prepared for it — the claims of serious injuries are not true,” they wrote.
The 10-episode series Squid Game: The Challenge will premiere on Netflix in November.