Netflix prepares a contest based on Squid Game

Netflix is ​​working on "Squid Game: The Challenge", a contest inspired by the South Korean series of the same name and which aims to become "the largest television production" in history.

The contest, with overtones of "reality" show, will have 456 participants and a prize of 4.56 million dollars, they reported this Tuesday from the "streaming" platform in a statement.

According to Netflix's vice president for non-scripted series and documentaries, Brandon Riegg, what is sought is to turn "the fictional world into reality" in a competition of massive scope that will also be "a social experiment".

"This is the largest number of contestants and the largest cash prize in the history of a television program," Netflix's chief executive for television products, Bela Bajaria, had revealed hours earlier at a media festival in Canada, according to reports. the specialized Hollywood press present at this event.

After Bajaria's announcement, the company published a short video about the contest on its social networks to report that the casting to access the "reality" of the successful production is open and fans who wish to do so can apply through the SquidGameCasting.com page.

The Netflix statement details that the contest, which will not have life or death tests, will consist of ten episodes in this first season and will be broadcast entirely in English.

The platform intends to recruit people from all over the world for the "reality", but the only requirement so far is that they be perfectly English-speaking, since the game instructions will be given -as in the series itself- through a loudspeaker and in English.

So far no further details have emerged about whether the last "survivor" of the tests will be the one who pockets the $4.56 million prize or whether it will be shared among the different finalists.

"The stakes are high, but the worst ending will be going home empty-handed," Netflix said in a statement.

This "reality" will be shot in the United Kingdom and will be produced by the companies Studio Lambert and The Garden, which, in turn, make up the ITV Studios audiovisual conglomerate.

The news of this contest comes two days after Netflix officially renewed the second season of the series "Squid Game", the most successful production in the history of the platform.