How Squid Game Took Over the World
In 2009, director Hwang Dong-hyuk tried writing what would become Squid Game as a feature film. It was a time of global financial crisis. Hwang himself was in debt, as were his mother and grandmother. But for all his efforts, he couldn’t secure financing for a movie about hundreds of desperate individuals competing to the death in children’s games for a large cash prize. In 2018, he revisited the script—and turned his idea into a TV series that would take the world by storm, as R.O. Kwonwrites in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. “It was a very strange experience,” he says, “because what seemed so unrealistic at the time didn’t feel as unrealistic anymore.”
Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford untangles the true story of Angelyne; Savannah Walsh recaps an especially emotional episode of This Is Us; Anthony Breznican talks Boba Fettwith Jon Favreau; and Richard Lawson tries to explain why he’s still enthralled by Downton Abbey.
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