`Squid Game` director Hwang Dong-hyuk has announced that he`s developing `Killing Old People Club`, a new film inspired by a novel penned by Umberto Eco, the revered Italian intellectual and essayist, reports `Variety`.
Speaking during a session at MipTV along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, Dong-hyuk revealed he had already penned a 25-page treatment note about the project, which will surely be "another controversial film", as he put it.
"It will be more violent than `Squid Game`," teased Dong-hyuk, adding that he might have to hide from old people after the film comes out. The project has the working title `K.O. Club`, according to `Variety`.
The critically acclaimed creator said he will now return home to South Korea to write the second season of `Squid Game` and hopes to have the show stream on Netflix by the end of 2024.
Dong-hyuk said the biggest praise he got about his superhit Netflix show came from Steven Spielberg, who told him he wanted to "steal (his) brain".
Dong-hyuk said he had met Spielberg during the AFI Awards Luncheon last month. "Steven Spielberg told me, `I watched your whole show in three days and now I want to steal your brain!," the Korean director recounted, according to `Variety`.
"It was like the biggest compliment I ever got in my life because he`s my film hero. I grew up watching his movies."
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