{"id":532624,"date":"2026-03-13T01:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T01:15:13","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-sequel-on-the-way-netflix-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/532624\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters sequel on the way, Netflix confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netflix confirmed on Thursday that a sequel to KPop Demon Hunters, the streaming platform’s most watched film of all time, is officially in development.<\/p>\n

The new installment will extend Netflix’s creative collaboration with \u200cco-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and marks the first project under their new exclusive multi-year writing and directing deal for animation.<\/p>\n

“I feel immense pride as a Korean filmmaker that the audience wants \u200bmore from this Korean story and our \u200bKorean characters,” Kang, who grew up in Toronto<\/a>, said in the announcement. “There’s so much more to this world we have built and I’m excited to show you. This \u200bis only the beginning.”<\/p>\n

Animated by Sony Pictures Animation, the \u2060original musical film follows \u2060K-pop girl trio Huntrix \u2014 Rumi, Mira \u200cand Zoey \u2014 as they balance their superstardom with secret lives as demon hunters. Lead vocalists EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami propelled the movie’s breakout anthem Golden to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Maggie Kang talks about her female characters:\"\"<\/p>\n

Maggie Kang’s female leads aren’t afraid to be silly<\/p>\n

KPop Demon Hunters writer and co-director Maggie Kang talks with Q guest host Gill Deacon about creating relatable, goofy female characters and details the animation process, including how acting is recorded.<\/p>\n

The film \u2060became a critical and awards-season powerhouse, earning best animated feature and best song at the 31st Critics Choice Awards, as well as best animated motion picture and \u200cbest original song at the 83rd Golden Globes. It has two Oscar nominations \u2014 for best animated feature and best original song.<\/p>\n

Golden also won a Grammy for best song written for visual media \u2014 the first Grammy \u200bever awarded to a K-Pop song.<\/p>\n

WATCH | How ‘Golden’ was written:\"\"<\/p>\n

K-pop singer-songwriter EJAE wrote \u2018Golden\u2019 on the way to the dentist<\/p>\n

Kpop Demon Hunters was the hit movie of the summer, and its songs are still topping the charts this fall. \u2019Golden\u2019 by Huntr\/x, one of the bands in the movie, has held the top spot on Billboard\u2019s Hot 100 chart for five straight weeks \u2014 a new record for an animated group. The song was co-written by EJAE, the voice of Huntr\/x\u2019s lead vocalist, Rumi. She told CBC\u2019s Gloria Macarenko she came up with the song on the way to the dentist. <\/p>\n

In January 2026, Netflix announced the movie had shattered platform records, \u2060drawing 482 million views over a six-month period, along with 32 million views \u2060for its lyric videos. Its soundtrack continues to trend globally.<\/p>\n

Appelhans, speaking to \u2060Reuters \u2060in January, stressed that a sequel \u200bwould need a clear creative direction from the beginning.<\/p>\n

“You have to know where \u200byou’re headed because \u2060otherwise you will be lost immediately,” he said. “So, we’ll just have to do that again and make something that we love and that means something to us. And then I think if you do that well, it works and other people connect \u2060to it.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-532624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}