Although “Squid Game” generated $900 million for Netflix, Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of the show, claims that he did not make much money from the first season.
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Although “Squid Game” generated $900 million for Netflix, Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of the show, claims he did not make much money from the first season. According to him, despite the global success of the series, he didn’t get rich.
“I’m not that rich,” Dong-hyuk said in an interview with The Guardian, “But I have enough. I have enough to put food on the table. And it’s not like Netflix paid me a bonus. Netflix paid me according to the original contract.”
Despite the huge success of “Squid Game“, Dong-hyuk would have lost all intellectual property rights when he made the deal with the streaming giant; the show’s creator was paid upfront and didn’t receive anything more, not even bonuses.
And money was important when negotiating the creation of a second season of the show, with the director revealing that he not only decided to go ahead because “he didn’t finish the story completely,” but also because he knew it “would help compensate for the success of the first season.”
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