LOS ANGELES ¨C On the same soundstage where Bob Barker lorded over ¡°The Price Is Right,¡± ¡°Squid Game¡± is coming to life.
On Dec. 6, Netflix unveiled its latest live experience, based on the dystopian hit show in which desperate South Koreans competed in a brutal contest of simple schoolyard games for a prize of 45.6 billion won (about $38 million). Winners moved closer to the money. Losers died. The live attraction mimics both the popular iconography of the series ¡ª the massive piggy bank filled with cash, a giant animatronic doll named Young-hee, the sterile white dormitory ¡ª and the childish games.
For $30, fans of ¡°Squid Game¡± can compete in some 70 minutes of play, with moral twists and turns and six group activities, including the schoolyard race Red Light, Green Light and a nonlethal version of the series¡¯ terrifying Glass Bridge challenge, which forced contestants to choose between two clear squares for each step across a bridge. If they chose incorrectly, they descended hundreds of feet to their death.
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