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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Players Threaten Lawsuit For Injuries Taken During Red Light, Green Light
Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge was a huge hit over the first days of its airing. The reality contestant series took its narrative from the popular Korean series, Squid Game. It emulates games that were played in the series plus others. Just like the series it is based off of Squid Game: The Challenge has had a lot of players eliminated. Not surprisingly a lot of those eliminated players are upset that they have been eliminated and some are threatening to sue due to injuries sustained during the games.
The players threatening lawsuit say that they sustained injuries during Red Light, Green Light due to the cold temperatures that they played in. Standing still for long periods of time in the cold seem to have caused some players to complain about nerve damage and hypothermia.
One of the contestants known as GrandmaGoneWild on TikTok was player number 358. She has been very vocal on her platform and told her fans that it was very cold on set and that her and other contestants had to play Red Light Green Light for nine hours as the series was filmed. She says that the contestants who were jumping up and down and shaking were not scared, they were cold. It shows too. There are people with their hands in their pockets who are moving around a lot and there are a lot of red noses. In her video, you can see her talk a bit more about her experience.
“It was truly torture. They told us the game would take a couple of hours. They didnt prepare us for the way it played out. Many people collapsed during the game.” GrandmaGoneWild said.
@grandmagonewild It was truly torture. They told us the game would take a couole hours. They didnt prepare us for the way it played out. Many people collapsed during the game. I am #358 on Squid Game: The Challenge. It’s on Netflix now. I will be doing several videos about the experience. You won’t want to miss it!! #IAm1of456SGTC #sgtc #squidgamethechallenge #iam358 #iam1of456SGTC #squidgamethenightmare #wedidntmove #ididntmove #didnotmove #squidgame #itwasfreezing #5minutegamewasseveralhours #callthemedics #squids4life #squidsociety #squidgamesurvivors #sgtc ♬ original sound – GrandmaGoneWild
“We recognize people may see this as a classic David and Goliath battle with the company and its production partners.” Daniel Slade, CEO of Express Solicitors said. “Contestants thought they were taking part in something fun and those injured did not expect to suffer as they did. Now they have been left with injuries after spending time being stuck in painful stress positions in cold temperatures.”
As of yet, there have not been any official lawsuits filed. Instead, there have just been threats and talk.
Have you watched Squid Game: The Challenge? What do you think of the players saying they sustained injury despite them having onsite medical treatment? Let us know what you think in the comments section.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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