Contestants on Squid Game: The Challenge are threatening a authorized problem towards Netflix, claiming that they sustained accidents through the filming of the present.
Two gamers, who haven’t been named, say they suffered hypothermia and nerve harm whereas capturing the collection within the Cardington Studios, a former Royal Air Force base in Bedford, UK.
As reported by Deadline, the British private accidents legislation agency Express Solicitors have despatched letters of declare to Studio Lambert, the co-producers of the present, in addition to Netflix. They say their purchasers risked their well being by having to remain immobile through the ‘Red Light, Green Light’ recreation, through which gamers should keep away from being seen shifting by a robotic doll.
Daniel Slade, CEO of the legislation agency, mentioned: “We recognise folks may even see this as a traditional David and Goliath battle with the corporate and its manufacturing companions.
“Contestants thought they had been collaborating in one thing enjoyable and people injured didn’t count on to endure as they did. Now they’ve been left with accidents after spending time being caught in painful stress positions in chilly temperatures.”
A spokesperson for Squid Game: The Challenge mentioned: “No lawsuit has been filed by any of the Squid Game contestants. We take the welfare of our contestants extraordinarily significantly.”
In the unique fictional collection, gamers participated in challenges primarily based on youngsters’s video games in a bid to take residence a $4.56million money prize. However, ought to they lose the video games, the implications are deadly.
Squid Game: The Challenge takes that idea and pits 456 gamers towards one another in a collection of video games impressed by the unique present, in addition to some new surprises. As an official synopsis from Netflix explains, the contestants’ “methods, alliances, and character can be put to the take a look at whereas opponents are eradicated round them”. One apparent key distinction, although, is that fairly than being killed off after being eradicated, opponents are simply packed off residence as a substitute.
In a four-star assessment, NME wrote: “At its greatest, Squid Game: The Challenge captures a little bit of the Machiavellian magic that made the primary season of The Traitors so compelling.”
The first 5 episodes of the collection had been launched on Netflix on November 22, with an extra 4 set to reach on November 29. A grand finale will observe on December 6.
