{"id":472665,"date":"2026-03-13T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:27:08","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-to-return-as-netflix-announces-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472665\/","title":{"rendered":"KPop Demon Hunters to return as Netflix announces sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zhun, a South Korean music producer for the track Golden, told the BBC that he, too, is hoping to build on the success of the first film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to continue the high energy that we brought to the first film,&#8221; he said through a translator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that he hopes to build on combining the music with the &#8220;visual elements in the film [that] gave us so much energy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Netflix did not provide any further details about the sequel. The original film took seven years to make, from its initial pitch to its release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In October, Kang had told the BBC that &#8220;there&#8217;s definitely more we can do with these characters in this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And whatever it will be, it will be a story that deserves to be a sequel, and it will be something that we want to see,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In February, KPop Demon Hunters songwriter Mark Sonnenblick said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx2p32g8dx7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a sequel is &#8220;in process&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s going to be a whole development process before we get deep into writing the songs,&#8221; said Sonnenblick. &#8220;The music will follow from the story and that&#8217;s if it makes sense for us all to be doing it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhun, a South Korean music producer for the track Golden, told the BBC that he, too, is hoping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}