Studios Turned “Squid Game” Down
“Squid Game” was the first series in which producer Hwang Dong-hyuk worked with an international entertainment company like Netflix. Dong-hyuk had actually been working on the script since 2008. At the time, he had a family and was extremely broke and in debt just like the contestants on the show.
He incorporated his personal experiences into the script and finished it in 2009. But he had a tough time getting people to invest in his project and several studios rejected him because they felt his project was very violent. Eventually, Netflix caught wind of the project and acquired it.