Netflix Edits Hit Series Over Real Phone Number – The Hollywood Reporter
Scenes from Squid Sport, Netflix’s breakout South Korean collection from Hwang Dong-hyuk, are getting the axe because of an surprising wave of pranks callers dialing up a really actual cellphone quantity featured within the present, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Within the trailer and early episodes of the survival drama a few lethal competitors with a million-dollar prize, a card with a cellphone quantity on one facet is given to the sport’s 456 individuals. To start their journey — a collection of kids’s video games with violent twists — and earn an opportunity to free themselves of their steep monetary debt, every should name that quantity.
However not like different productions which have created fictionalized numbers to assist promote or market their exhibits, Squid Sport makes use of an precise quantity to the detriment of the South Korean girl who owns it. Because of this, the streamer and native manufacturing firm Siren Footage have made the choice to edit varied scenes with the numbers in query in hopes of placing a cease to the prank calls, THR has discovered.
In response to Reuters, the proprietor of the cellphone quantity spoke to native broadcaster SBS concerning the expertise of being inundated with calls, with these on the opposite line stating they wished to take part within the Squid Sport. Along with displaying a number of of the messages that they had obtained, in addition they revealed they couldn’t change their quantity on account of consumer contacts.
In a Wall Avenue Journal report, which seemingly identifies the person’s gender in a different way, the particular person revealed that they had obtained upwards of 4,000 calls a day.
The Korea Occasions has additionally reported that one other particular person, whose quantity is just one digit totally different from the one featured within the collection, has additionally been inundated with calls and messages. In the meantime, the WSJ recognized a 26-year-old Seoul-based workplace employee whose quantity differs from the one featured within the present by simply two digits as one other particular person seeing a rise in cellphone calls and messages.
The nine-episode Squid Sport was a shock worldwide hit for Netflix after premiering on Sept. 17. The streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos acknowledged at a latest convention that there was “an excellent probability it’s going to be our largest present ever.”
