Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming feature-length horror film, Choose Or Die, that’ll remind audiences of two of the streaming service’s survival thriller television shows.
The Choose Or Die trailer introduces audiences to gamers Isaac (Asa Butterfield) and Kayla (Iola Evans), who find a retro video game called Curs>r that promises to reward them with a $125,000 grand prize if they beat it. Both Isaac and Kayla have fallen on financially hard times, so they decide to give it a try. However, they soon learn that the choices they’re forced to make come with dire consequences that may or may not cost them their lives.
For fans of Squid Game and Alice in Borderland, Asa Butterfield and Iola Evans star in a movie about a new kind of deadly game. In pursuit of a cash prize, Kayla and Isaac play a horror game that forces them to make terrifying decisions to survive.
👾 CHOOSE OR DIE 💀
April 15 pic.twitter.com/yPdTa8TxSP— Netflix Geeked (@NetflixGeeked) March 29, 2022
Within the trailer, fans see at least one of the choices the two will have to make: tell someone to clean up broken glass or break more glass. Kayla chooses for the woman to clean up the mess, which leads her, much to Kayla’s horror, to swallow broken chards of glass whole. Although not much more is known about the plot of Netflix’s latest survival thriller, it has been teased that Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Robert Englund will star in the series as himself.
Directed by Toby Meakins and based on a story by Simon Allen, Matthew James Wilkinson, and Toby Meakins, Choose Or Die is reminiscent of Netflix’s 2020 original series, Alice in Borderland. Based on Haro Aso’s manga of the same name, Alice in Borderland followed Ryōhei Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and Yuzuha Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) trapped in an abandoned Tokyo. In order to escape the area, the pair must compete in dangerous games to survive. After receiving positive reviews from critics and audience members alike, Alice in Borderland was renewed for Season 2, which is slated to hit Netflix in December 2022.
As teased by NetflixGeeked’s Twitter account above, Choose Or Die‘s death game setup will remind fans of Netflix’s largest global hit ever, Squid Games. Like Choose Or Die, individuals compete in dangerous games of survival to win a cash prize. Squid Game‘s massive success quickly set itself up for a Season 2; however, there’s no news yet on its release date.
However, it already sounds like Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has plenty of surprises in store for survival game fans in Season 2. In March, Dong-hyuk teased that while many of Season 1 characters will stay dead, he’s open to bringing their respective actors back in creative ways. “I’ll try something to bring them back to Season 2,” he said. “Let’s say maybe [Kang Sae-byeok] has a twin sister, you’ll see.”
Choose Or Die hits Netflix on April 15.
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