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Game-playing motifs with added sociopolitical subtext have proliferated in a 21st century new wave of survival-themed fiction such as As the Gods Will (2014) or Alice in Borderland (2020), which in turn can trace their lineage back to key kill-or-be-killed texts such as Richard Connell’s novella The Most Dangerous Game (1924), or Robert Sheckley’s short stories ‘Seventh Victim’ (1953) and ‘The Prize of Peril,’ (1958), all filmed, and casting a long shadow over not just film franchises such as The Hunger Games (2012-15) or The Purge (2013-21), but also game shows, reality TV and video games. Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator behind the global phenomenon that is Squid Game, revealed this week that he’s nowhere close to done telling the story. But the sinister side of playtime can be traced back to the nightmare hide-and-seek from Dead of Night (1945), The Celestial Toymaker (1966) trapping Doctor Who’s companions into playing deadly games of blind man’s buff and hopscotch (all but one of these episodes have been lost), and to films like the British horror-comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1970), in which a deviant family murders new “friends” in a playground. So, it’s perhaps less surprising than it might initially seem.

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#STORY OF SQUID GAME WRITER SERIES#

Squid Game writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk says he was inspired by Japanese manga such as Battle Royale (2000-05) and Liar Game (2005-15), adapted into, respectively, a film and TV series. Given that Squid Game Season 1 is one of Netflixs most-watched shows ever, it should hardly come as a surprise that Season 2 will be exclusively available on the streaming platform. Squid Game creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk on set speaking to actor Lee Jung-jae who plays Gi-hun. But it took 12 days for Squid Game to become the most popular Netflix series ever,' reads the statement.

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