Where Was Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge Filmed? – Looper

In a behind-the-scenes video released during Netflix’s 2023 Geeked Week, series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk was joined on the set of “Squid Game: The Challenge” by original series star Anupam Tripathi, who played the doomed contestant Ali Abdul in the 2021 show. (Tripathi is even clad in his costume from the show, sporting the familiar green tracksuit that the reality contestants will also wear during “Squid Game: The Challenge.”)

“They actually wanted to build the set exactly like the original set from the original show,” Hwang tells Tripathi. “They asked us a lot of questions about how we build, and also blueprint, every detail about the set.” The two start off in the massive bunk-bed room — “Can you imagine they lived here for, like, 15 days?” Hwang asks Tripathi — before heading into a room with a swing set and the infamous shapes on the wall (in the series, contestants had to carve stars, umbrellas, and other shapes into dalgona candy without making a single mistake). They also visit a seemingly new room that Hwang refers to as an “aircraft carrier” that may be home to a new game, as well as the set for the marble game where Tripathi’s character Ali dies in the show.

“This set kind of makes me, like, I have to do a better job creating the set in Season 2,” Hwang says to Tripathi at one point, laughing. “I have to top this set!” Clearly, he’s got his work cut out for him. “Squid Game: The Challenge” premieres on Netflix on Friday, November 22.