Steven Spielberg has heaped reward on Netflix’s Squid Game on the Producers Guild Awards, believing it has modified the sport for Hollywood, and America’s view on international productions.
In a speech on the PGA Awards held in Los Angeles, Spielberg spoke with nice respect for the sequence that got here out of nowhere to dominate the web in the course of the second half of 2021. The famed director praised it for “changing the math entirely” for studios, whereas additionally thanking Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos for giving the sequence a platform.
“Squid Game comes along and changes the math entirely for all of us. Thank you, Ted. A long time ago it was domestic stars that brought the audience into movies. Today, it’s interesting, unknown people can star entire miniseries, can be in movies.”
Spielberg and producer of Being the Ricardos Todd Black cited the present’s success as proof that productions now not want mega-stars connected to them to be worthwhile. Black mentioned that the times of needing a number of A-list celebrities to greenlight a sequence or film to studios was over and that, these days, solely an “anchor” casting was wanted – and never essentially because the lead.
“Okay, I’m going to have a star in a smaller role. I’m going to have an unknown in the lead role.”
“Now, you can go to the streaming service or the studio and say, ‘Okay, well, I’ll get name the name to play for three days in this role but I’m going to go with a total unknown, […] Nine times out of 10 if the script is good enough and the budget is small enough, you can pull that off.”
The forged of Squid Game has seen nice plaudits from the US and past, with milestone trade awards wins for its Korean ensemble on the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Squid Game‘s profound affect remains to be being felt, with a long-term future planned by Netflix for the Korean drama. The second season is at the moment within the works by Netflix, after confirmation in January.
