{"id":203522,"date":"2022-09-19T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=203522"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:26:58","slug":"netflix-contestants-real-life-squid-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/netflix-contestants-real-life-squid-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is looking for contestants in a real-life Squid Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Squid Game was a massive success for Netflix as viewers all over the world tuned it to watch a deadly tale written as an analogy of the capitalist system that grips the world. At a time when Netflix has been seriously struggling it is no surprise that the company is trying to capitalize on the global success of the show, but this current news may be a step too far. <strong>Netflix is going to host its own version of the deadly Squid Games<\/strong> and is actively looking for contestants who want to take place.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Netflix\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/bb71af8a-96bf-11e6-8279-00163ec9f5fa\/3827667167\/netflix-netflix%20icon.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Netflix<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/netflix.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/netflix.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Netflix is on the hunt for 456 players to take place in an upcoming reality TV show called Squid Game: The Challenge<\/strong>. You might think you\u2019d need to be mad to enter such a tournament but there is a whopping <strong>$4.56 million on offer to the contestants who will come out of the show successfully.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contestants are welcome from all over the world <\/strong>with the shows website having separate links for US casting, UK casting, and Global casting. Fortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squidgamecasting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the official website<\/a> seems to allay fears that contestants may actually die with the phrase: <em>\u201cThe stakes are high, but in this game the worst fate is going home empty-handed.\u201d <\/em>However, even though we are led to believe that no contestants will die while on the show, <strong>it would be na\u00efve to the extreme to not expect the whole thing to be a deeply unpleasant experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the show this new reality TV version is based on providing such a cutting commentary of capitalism, it is interesting to think about whether the games in this show will seek to offer any sort of political commentary too. Another interesting aspect from the show that could also show up is the idea of some of the guards having their own malicious purposes bubbling away in the background. This is certainly an interesting prospect that we will be tracking further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other <a href=\"https:\/\/netflix.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netflix news<\/a>, we could be seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/netflix.en.softonic.com\/articles\/netflix-ads-coming-this-fall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ads landing on the streaming platform before winter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Squid Game was a massive success for Netflix as viewers all over the world tuned it to watch a deadly tale written as an analogy of the capitalist system that grips the world. At a time when Netflix has been seriously struggling it is no surprise that the company is trying to capitalize on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/netflix-contestants-real-life-squid-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Netflix is looking for contestants in a real-life Squid Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":203530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2383],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-203522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnetflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323188,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203522\/revisions\/323188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203522"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=203522"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=203522"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=203522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}