Netflix’s animated summer sensation, “Kpop Demon Hunters” The graphs of global spectators continues to dominate, but a whirlwind of disinformation has recently aroused online controversy. In particular, the statements according to which Hybe will produce a live-action adaptation of animated success has become viral, just to be met with an intense Netizen backlash.
In particular, the Netizen on Korean platforms like Theqoo reacted strongly to the relationships that suggest that Hybe was working on a live-action version of “Kpop Demon Hunters”with comments like, “Please stop this madness”, “stands for flop”, AND “Don’t let Hybe touch this, please.”
It is a fact, on July 23, Hybe America has actually announced a new film project with Paramount Pictures that revolves around K-pop. However, this is not a live-action version of “Kpop Demon Hunters”But a film with a separate and original story.
The without title is played by Yoo Ji-Young, who expressed Zoey, a member of the group of Huntr/X girls in “Kpop Demon Hunters”Next to Eric Nam. The plot focuses on a Korean-American girl that causes a k-pop reality show, challenging the wishes of her family in search of her dream.
The director Benson Lee described the film as a love letter to magic, passion and global energy of K-Pop, while Hybe America’s head of cinema and TV, James Shin, underlined his attention to perseverance, art and inspiration from the k-pop culture of the real world.
The film will begin production in Korea in September 2025, scoring the first time that a great Hollywood study will arrive a full film entirely in South Korea. Its release is provisionally scheduled for February 12, 2027.
In the meantime, “Kpop Demon Hunters” It has become one of Netflix’s most viewed animated titles of all time. The story follows three members of Huntr/X, a group of k-pop girls that Moonlight as demons hunters. Using their songs to create spiritual barriers, they fight dark forces under the earth.
Their enemies? A rival group named Saja Boys, apparently fascinating idols that are, in fact, demons in disguise. These male idols use music to steal fans’ souls and nourish their demonic power.
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