{"id":26870,"date":"2024-10-28T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26870"},"modified":"2024-10-28T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T00:38:37","slug":"david-fincher-reportedly-adapting-squid-game-as-netflix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26870","title":{"rendered":"David Fincher Reportedly Adapting &#8216;Squid Game&#8217; as Netflix Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000399\/\">David Fincher<\/a> is reportedly ready to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1375363\/\">Hwang Dong-hyuk<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10919420\/\"><em><strong>Squid Game<\/strong><\/em><\/a> into an English-language series for Netflix. Released in 2021, <em><strong>Squid Game<\/strong><\/em> holds the record for being Netflix\u2019s most popular series, attracting more than 142 million member households and 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first four weeks alone. It was nominated for 14 primetime Emmys and won six of them. Published reports indicate that the second season of the original series will be launched on December 26, 2024 with the third and final season to debut sometime in 2025. <br \/><br \/>Fincher had earlier developed three other series for Netflix: <em><strong>House of Cards<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Mindhunter<\/strong><\/em>, and the Emmy-winning <em><strong>Love, Death and Robots. <\/strong><\/em>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/10\/squid-game-david-fincher-tv-series-1236159538\/\"><em>Deadline<\/em>,<\/a> Fincher\u2019s upcoming Netflix project will be a spinoff set in the United States and not a remake of the original South Korean series. Few details have been revealed, but it\u2019s likely that the series will be entitled <em><strong>Squid Game: America.<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/><em><strong>Squid Game<\/strong> <\/em>is a high-stakes dystopic survival thriller in which 456 players have accepted a challenge to compete for a large prize by playing a series of childrens\u2019 games. The first season focused on the experience of Seong Gi-hun, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0497631\/\">Lee Jung-jae<\/a>. A divorced dad and gambling addict, Gi-hun is taken to a remote location with the other 455 players, all of whom are forced to wear green tracksuits. The players soon realize that they will be killed if they lose one of the games. In the second season, Gi-hun returns with the aim of wreaking revenge on the game\u2019s leader, known as the Front Man.<br \/><br \/>David Fincher, 62, made his feature film directorial debut in 1992 with <em><strong>Alien 3<\/strong><\/em>. His breakthrough film, <em><strong>Seven<\/strong><\/em>, was released in 1995. Other of his films include <em><strong>The Game<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Fight Club<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Panic Room<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Zodiac<\/strong><\/em>,<em><strong> The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Gone Girl<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>The Killer<\/strong><\/em>. He was nominated for a Best Director Academy Award for T<em><strong>he Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong><\/em> (2008), <em><strong>The Social Network<\/strong><\/em> (2010), and <em><strong>Mank<\/strong> <\/em>(2020).<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9The Curious Case of Benjamin Button David Fincher is reportedly ready to develop Hwang Dong-hyuk\u2019s Squid Game into an English-language series for Netflix. Released in 2021, Squid Game holds the record for being Netflix\u2019s most popular series, attracting more than 142 million member households and 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first four weeks alone&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20471],"tags":[2105,6160,4559,122,92,4557,24813,6576],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Fincher Reportedly Adapting &#039;Squid Game&#039; as Netflix Series<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"David Fincher is reportedly ready to develop Hwang Dong-hyuk\u2019s Squid Game into an English-language series for Netflix.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26870\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"David Fincher Reportedly Adapting &#039;Squid Game&#039; 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