It Almost Became a Movie
Dong-hyuk originally wrote “Squid Game” to be a film, but felt that it was nearly impossible to cram all of his ideas and the games into two hours. So it was changed into a series to allow him and his writing team to come up with new characters and flesh out the story so that none of his original ideas would end up on the cutting room floor. And in the end, it paid off and the series received 9 episodes ranging from 32 minutes to 63 minutes long to tell the whole story.