As Squid Sport‘s tense flagship sequence attracts to a detailed after three seasons, its real-world parallels stay as well timed as ever.
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk not too long ago acknowledged similarities between the Netflix sequence’ villainous masked VIPs and Elon Musk after the third and remaining season debuted Friday on the streamer, regardless of the antagonists not being primarily based on any actual figures.
“Elon Musk is in every single place today, proper? All people talks about him,” he advised Time. “Not solely is he the top of an enormous tech firm that controls the world nearly, however he’s additionally this showman. After writing [Season 3], in fact I assumed, ‘Oh, a number of the VIPs do sort of resemble Elon Musk.’”
Offered all through the sequence as disgustingly wealthy, English-speaking males who function masked spectators for the titular recreation, they tackle a extra pivotal function within the remaining season. “They take their masks off and go into the sport and kill others with their very own palms,” defined Dong-hyuk.
“Prior to now, people who actually managed the system and maintained energy, they had been hidden behind the scenes, nearly like this large unseen conspiracy. Nevertheless, it’s not the case, particularly in America,” he mentioned. “We speak lots about oligarchy today, however these so-called large tech house owners, they step up, telling everybody who they’re backing with their cash.”
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Dong-hyuk added, “The individuals who actually management the facility and the system, they not disguise behind a curtain. They willingly take their masks off, nearly as if to declare, ‘We’re those operating all the pieces. We’re those in management.’”
The Squid Sport sequence finale comes as David Fincher develops a U.S. remake of the Korean drama.
