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.
The highly-anticipated show has already faced controversy after some of the contestants considered legal action against Netflix.
Dozens of players have blasted the production claiming they were ‘treated like animals’ and made to stand for hours in freezing temperatures filming.
The series will see 456 Contestants battling it out to win a record-breaking $4.56million cash prize, with the return of Red Light, Yellow Light teased in the preview.
One to watch: 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
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.
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 prize in 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’.
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
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’ (sic).
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.
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.’
‘We were tortured for eight hours. We were just fodder. You wouldn’t treat animals like that. I know the show was supposed to be tough but it felt inhumane,’ one player told the publication.
‘At one point I could see they were bringing on a black coffin with a pink ribbon just like in the original show. I feel like they prioritised getting a good shot over helping us.’
Another player claimed people were ‘dropping like flies’ due to the cold weather.
Elsewhere two players are said to have ruined their chances before the games even began, after bed-hopping at the Tower Hotel in London where contestants stayed in for two days before filming in Bedford commenced.
Reports also emerged contestants were reportedly left screaming ‘medic’ before they were stretchered off in freezing conditions while filming.
In a statement to Deadline, Netflix and the show’s producers Studio Lambert and The Garden said, ‘while it was very cold on set — and participants were prepared for that — any claims of serious injury are untrue.
‘We care deeply about the health and safety of our cast and crew, and invested in all the appropriate safety procedures.’
Squid Game: The Challenges drops on Netflix on November 22.
