Gold Derby Presents… The Making of “Squid Game” with Cast, Filmmaker and Crew

“Squid Game” captivated audiences around the globe to become Netflix’s biggest series ever, with more than 142 million viewers in a month — the streamer’s largest single audience to date. The intense and gripping storylines of South Korean filmmaker Hwang Dong-hyuk’s dystopian survival drama series quickly sparked memes and created a worldwide conversation surrounding poverty, class struggle and global indebtedness. “45.6 billion won in prize money. Are you in?” Laid off and divorced with high-interest loans and a gambling debt — Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is at his wit’s end when a strange man presents him a business card featuring a circle, triangle and square. The man invites Gi-hun to a survival game. The prize money? 45.6 billion won. Grasping at straws, Gi-hun accepts the offer and lands himself in a mysterious place with a total of 456 participants; among them is Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Gi-hun’s former neighbor who initially seemed to be living the high life, Il-nam (Oh Young-soo) the terminally ill elder, Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon) the North Korean defector, Deok-su (Heo Sung-tae) the gangster, Mi-nyeo (Kim Joo-ryoung) the con artist and Ali (Tripathi Anupam), the migrant worker. The rule is simple: Everyone has to participate in a well-known, classic childhood game. The stakes? Their lives. Winner takes all. Trust no one, not even yourself. Here, winning is the only thing that matters. Still willing to compete?