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How ‘Squid Game’ Created a Scenic Playground So Scary Even the Actors and Crew Got Spooked

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A version of this story about “Squid Game” first appeared in the Comedy & Drama issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Netflix’s blockbuster series “Squid Game” struck a chord last fall with its unflinching look at a dystopian society in which everyday debt-owing citizens (led by Lee Jung-jae’s empathetic Seong Gi-hun) compete in deadly children’s games for an ever-growing sum of cash that appears to get farther and farther out of reach.

But what makes the series scary is how all of the program’s bloodshed and mayhem play against a kid-pleasing, Jordan almond-colored backdrop.“We wanted to use a wider range of colors breaking away from the existing norm typically used for a grim series,” production designer Chae Kyoung-sun said via an interpreter, adding that fairy-tale illustrations and textbooks used by Korean children in the 1970s and 1980s were the inspiration for many of the visual cues. “And when the costume designer (Jo Sang-gyeong) suggested giving a vivid and strong pink color to the mask managers (who operate as overseers and executioners), that was actually a starting point for all of the color palettes.

With that in mind, we were able to further develop the color contrast for the space and characters and create the mood of the show.”Chae first met “Squid Game” creator-writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk while working on his 2011 film “Silenced”, which was based upon a real-life case involving a sexual abuse scandal at a school for the deaf.

Hwang’s “Squid Game” was already being shopped around with little fanfare, making the series’ worldwide explosion a decade later even more astounding.

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