David Fincher’s Subsequent Venture Might Be within the World of Squid Recreation

Deadline reviews a brand new English-language Squid Game sequence is now within the works at Netflix, with Zodiac and Se7en director David Fincher aboard in a growth position.

Although “particulars are imprecise” 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 sequence might be Fincher’s subsequent challenge, 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 sequence 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 folks turning into unwitting contributors in a diabolical sport.” Definitely debatable!

Although this would be the very first scripted successor sequence to Hwang Dong-hyuk’s revolutionary Squid Recreation at Netflix, it’s removed from Fincher’s solely challenge on the firm, whose earlier collaborations with the streamer embody Mindhunter, Home of Playing cards, and Love + Loss of life and Robots.

Rumors of the director’s involvement with a U.S.-set companion sequence to Squid Recreation have been circulating since final summer time, when the Playlist recommended Fincher had put his deliberate Chinatown prequel sequence on maintain for the chance to return aboard. Final week, insider Daniel Richtman (through World of Reel) reported his involvement, stating the brand new sequence could be an official spinoff titled Squid Recreation: America, providing the possibility for characters from the unique sequence to make particular crossover appearances. In line with each sources, Utopia‘s Dennis Kelly could also be concerned with the sequence as head author—however for now, that is still a rumor.

Conflictingly, Production List suggests Fincher’s subsequent challenge is Bitterroot, a “neo-western” scheduled to start filming this January; it’s stated 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 assume, 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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