Production designer Ben Norman has been working as a designer of reality show challenges for a few years, though never on a competition quite on the scale of Squid Game: The Challenge.
To be fair, there hasn’t really been a reality competition on the scale of the Netflix series before, which brings together 456 players to compete for $4.56 million in a series of games – some taken from the scripted series and some new.
The choice to incorporate new games in addition to games from the scripted series stemmed in part from a safety concern as well as a desire to keep things new and interesting.
Norman says the new games not only threw off players who were expecting the challenges to be identical to the scripted series, but also in some cases threw in the extra element of teamwork. DEADLINE: When you started working on the series, how much of the games were expected to be exactly like the scripted series versus completely new? BEN NORMAN: Initially, we were pretty much going to do every game that the drama had.
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