David Fincher’s Next Project May Be in the World of Squid Game

Deadline reports a caller English-language Squid Game bid is present successful the works astatine Netflix, with Zodiac and Se7en manager David Fincher aboard successful a improvement role.

Though “details are vague” and “Netflix had nary comment” erstwhile asked to elaborate connected the streamer’s latest team-up with the fashionable filmmaker, the outlet suggests this caller Squid Game bid volition beryllium Fincher’s adjacent project, starting successful 2025. Deadline besides opined Fincher is simply a cleanable acceptable for the burgeoning franchise—which has since expanded into video games and an unscripted contention bid since taking the satellite by tempest successful 2021— due to the fact that “it’s besides akin to his 1997 thriller The Game, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. That movie besides revolves astir real-life radical becoming unwitting participants successful a diabolical game.” Certainly debatable!

Though this volition beryllium the precise archetypal scripted successor bid to Hwang Dong-hyuk’s revolutionary Squid Game at Netflix, it is acold from Fincher’s lone task astatine the company, whose erstwhile collaborations with the streamer see Mindhunter, House of Cards, and Love + Death and Robots.

Rumors of the director’s engagement with a U.S.-set companion bid to Squid Game person been circulating since past summer, erstwhile the Playlist suggested Fincher had enactment his planned Chinatown prequel bid connected clasp for the accidental to travel aboard. Last week, insider Daniel Richtman (via World of Reel) reported his involvement, stating the caller bid would beryllium an authoritative spinoff titled Squid Game: America, offering the accidental for characters from the archetypal bid to marque peculiar crossover appearances. According to some sources, Utopia‘s Dennis Kelly whitethorn beryllium progressive with the bid arsenic caput writer—but for now, that remains a rumor.

Conflictingly, Production List suggests Fincher’s adjacent task is Bitterroot, a “neo-western” scheduled to statesman filming this January; it’s said to interest “a 78-year-old WWII seasoned and Montana rancher burdened by bosom disease, diabetes, and aesculapian bills” who “wins a million-dollar sweepstakes,” with not-so-happy results. Come to think, the similarity of the 2 projects’ themes whitethorn adjacent suggest they’re 1 and the same, with “Bitterroot” serving arsenic a moving title. Stranger things person happened astatine Netflix. 

Come what may, it seems Fincher enjoys moving for Netflix and, arsenic antecedently noted by Deadline, stories astir games. On that we tin each agree.

Squid Game play two, with returning Emmy-winning prima Lee Jung-jae (The Acolyte), hits the streamer November 26.

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