"Squid Game: The Challenge" Trailer Released

Netflix has released a trailer for their upcoming reality show based on the hit series “Squid Game.” 

In the new clip for the unscripted show, which debuts November 22 on Netflix and will roll out new episodes through December 6, 456 people are competing for the $4.56 million prize being offered, just like it was in the first season of the streamer’s Korean-language hit “Squid Game.” Of course, in this game, people’s lives aren’t actually on the line — but they still get fake “shot” during a game of “Squid Game’s” most iconic activity, Red Light, Green Light, and go tumbling to their “death” off a bridge in a later challenge, including being fake-killed.

What’s going on behind the scenes here: When a player is “killed,” a squib full of black ink goes off under the contestant’s shirt. 

The players wore special vests with air compression chambers that made it look like the squibs exploded.

The “Squid Game” game becomes even more realistic later in the footage, when remaining contestants are asked to vote to “eliminate” two of their own.

Per Netflix’s logline for the competition, “456 real players will enter the competition show in pursuit of a life-changing reward of USD $4.56 million.

As they compete through a series of games inspired by the original show – plus surprising new additions – their strategies, alliances, and character will be put to the test while competitors are eliminated around them.

The competition show has been mired in controversy after contestants required medical assistance during the shoot, which took place in the U.K. during a surprise cold snap. A number of contestants — who were not paid for their participation in the series — collapsed on set from a combination of cold and fatigue.

“Squid Game: The Challenge” is executive produced by Nicola Brown, Tim Harcourt, John Hay, Toni Ireland, Anna Kidd, Stephen Lambert, Louise Peet, Nia Yemoh and Stephen Yemoh.

The Netflix competition series hails from Studio Lambert and The Garden.