The story of the man who was broke and spent his time writing clumps

Everybody's talking about “Squid Game”, a qdrama series showing how 456 people, in an unstable economic situation, compete in deadly games to earn money that could change lives. But who's in mind after the cruel game in “Squid Game”?

“Squid Game” (The squid playing) was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, who is also the director. “Squid Game” was not created near now, rather, the work for which dates back a decade.

In an interview for the NME portal (via Entrepreneur), Hwang indicated he wrote the original plot as a movie scenario in 2009, but because of the complex scenario, no one wanted to help produce it. He refused several times until Netflix decided to bet on the series.

He was inspired by various manga and children's Korean games during the '70s and '80s.

When I started, I was in financial trouble and I spent a lot of time in manhwabang (Cafene manga) reading comics as a Royal Bettle and Leear Game. I began to wonder how I would feel if I participated in games like this. But I found the very complex dynamic and focused on using children's games,” said Hwang told Variety.

The Creator completed the script in 2009, but he could not find producers, production houses or actors who wanted to support his project. At that time, according to Hwang in various interviews, people thought the events in “Squid Game” was very violent, complex, and most important, little commercial, and were not suitable for Korean television trying to be very family oriented.

Ten years passed and convinced of his scenario, Hwang tried again. This time, a company finally gave her freedom to create: Netflix.

It's a sad story. But the reason I came back to the project is because today's world has become a place where these extraordinary survival stories are so common,” said director for the Korean site Chosun.

Regarding criticism, under which “Squid Game” has a Minoginist scenario and outdated mentality, he replied that he wrote the story as a “alegories or fables for modern capitalist society”, a somewhat similar approach to Oscar's winning film, “Parasites”.

Netflix co-director Ted Sarandos said at a conference that “Squid Game” has <x2 a great opportunity that will be our greatest show of all”. With “large” it refers to the number of people who have seen it.