Netflix dropped the trailer for Squid Games: The Challenge on Friday, ahead of its launch on November 22.
The streaming platform has taken inspiration from the hit TV show Squid Games and turned it into a reality series.
456 Contestants will have to battle it out to win a record-breaking $4.56million cash prize, with the return of Red Light, Yellow Light teased in the preview.
The Challenge is based on Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama series created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.
It revolves around a contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial debt, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children’s games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize.
Netflix dropped the trailer for Squid Games: The Challenge on Friday, ahead of its launch on November 22
The game is on! Contestants will have to battle it out to win a record-breaking $4.56million cash prize
While the reality TV series won’t go to the same lengths to win the cash prize, there is plenty of drama in store.
The trailer starts with the narrator, who says: ‘Attention players. You will now compete for our biggest cash prizein reality show history.’
Eyes light up when a the money drops into a huge piggy bank above their heads with one player exclaiming: ‘You have got to be kidding’, while another added: ‘oh my god’.
It then shows contestants running towards to the laser focused girl statue in Red Light Green Light, who eliminates players if they move when she turns around.
One contestant then hints at betrayal as he says: ‘$4.56million dollars. People do a whole lot worse for a whole lot less’.
There will also be some new additions to games and competitor’s strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them.
First reaction from fans said: ”this is insane, like did nobody watch the show??? The entire point was about how profiting over watching people fight like animals over money is inhumane. This is genuinely insane.’
‘Can’t believe it’s actually been made into a TV show’.
‘Something tells me the message of Squid Game went over y’alls heads’ (sic).
Others were excited: ‘Oh yes’, ‘Yas yas yas’.
Amid production, there were complaints of poor conditions on set from contestants who played the Red Light Green Light game, which were reported back in January.
Piggybank: 456 Contestants will have to battle it out to win a record-breaking $4.56million cash prize, with the return of Red Light, Yellow Light teased in the preview.
The fight is on: While the reality TV series won’t go to the same lengths to win the cash prize, there is plenty of drama in store
First reactions: Fans soon commented with some questioning the reality show being made due to the graphic nature of the show to which it is inspired, while others were excited
The episodes for the reality competition series was shot earlier this year in an air balloon hangar in England.
A source told The Sun some people couldn’t move their feet due to freezing temperatures in the UK, and then went on to describe the scene as something like a ‘war zone.’
Variety confirmed, at least some of the accusations, by reporting one scenario where assistance was needed, and that a ‘small number’ of contestants needed medical attention. One contestant accidentally ran into a wall and needed help with their shoulder, and others were allegedly treated for mild ailments.
Netflix defended the new show and maintained it had ‘invested in all the appropriate safety procedure,’ according to Deadline.
‘While it was very cold on set – and participants were prepared for that – any claims of serious injury are untrue.
Squid Game: The Challenges drops on Netflix on November 22.