On your marks, get set, go!

Netflix finally has a teaser and start date for its long-awaited reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge. The game show with a twist is based on its most-watched program to date: Korean export Squid Games. The show is set to launch on November 22nd.

The trailer shows the 456 contestants competing in a range of games inspired by the hit dystopian drama. Those contestants will compete in challenges featured in the program, along with some “surprising new additions,” according to the show’s logline. As the game progresses, dozens of contestants will eliminated as the remaining combatants vie to be the one to take home the colossal $4.56M prize fund, said to be the highest ever for a competition format.

One contestant can be heard saying in the footage, “$4.56 million dollars — people do a whole lot worse for a whole lot less.”

The original Squid Game series, Netflix’s most popular show of all time, told the story of a divorced father and gambler (Lee Jung-jae) who joins a secret competition with 456 total players. In that show, there can be only one winner: the losers of each round are executed, which is not expected to happen in Squid Game: The Challenge. The drama series has been renewed for a second season.

Produced by UK independent houses Studio Lambert and The Garden, the show has encounted a few slowdowns on the way to being ready for air. A cold snap in Britain created some complications during taping at Cardington Studios, a former Royal Air Force base in Bedford. Additionally, Netflix confirmed that three of the 456 players had to receive medical attention during the filming of ‘Red Light, Green Light,’ in which players must evade the attention of a menacing robotic doll. 

Deadline reported that Britain’s Health and Safety Executive reminded producers to plan properly for risk but ultimately decided that no further action was necessary, but a spokeswoman said at the time that “all the appropriate safety precautions” had been taken by the show.

Squid Game: The Challenge is exec-produced by Nicola Brown (The Garden), Tim Harcourt (Studio Lambert), John Hay (The Garden), Toni Ireland (Studio Lambert), Anna Kidd, Stephen Lambert (Studio Lambert), Louise Peet, Nia Yemoh (Studio Lambert) and Stephen Yemoh (Studio Lambert).