Don't Expect to See KPop Demon Hunters 2 Until 2029

KPop Demon Hunters is, unshockingly, getting a sequel. But it's going to instrumentality a spot of clip to make, truthful you're not going to spot it until 2029.

This quality comes from Variety, pursuing reports earlier this twelvemonth that KPop Demon Hunters would successful information beryllium getting sequels (plural). According to Variety, Netflix and Sony person finalized a woody for the nonstop sequel, but animated movies simply instrumentality a agelong clip to make.

It's nary astonishment that KPop Demon Hunters has garnered this overmuch enactment for follow-ups. The movie is virtually the astir fashionable happening Netflix has ever enactment out, adjacent beating retired Squid Game's archetypal season, Wednesday, and Stranger Things. Despite releasing each the mode backmost successful June, it remained the 2nd most-popular movie to ticker connected Netflix past week (ending 11/2, down House of Dynamite) and has spent 20 weeks successful a enactment successful Netflix's apical 10, usually successful the archetypal oregon 2nd spot. 14 cardinal radical watched it past week alone. Yeah, I'd beryllium hustling to get a sequel made, too.

If you someway haven't watched it yet, KPop Demon Hunters is simply a Sony Pictures Animation movie pursuing Korean popular set Huntrix, a trio who moonlight as, demon hunters battling against an evil demon king intent connected devouring humanity. In our 8/10 review, we called it "a stunning animated enactment philharmonic with terrific combat sequences, catchy philharmonic numbers, and an ample magnitude of harmony and heart."

Though past reporting has suggested a live-action remake mightiness beryllium successful the works, creator Maggie Kang has since said that the bid is best-suited to animation, saying that it's "really hard to ideate these characters successful a unrecorded enactment world."

KPop Demon Hunters is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix now, some successful regular and singalong formats.

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