Where is Squid Game: The Challenge filmed?
A lot went into a creating a completely immersive experience for the players.
The final episode of Squid Game: The Challenge has dropped on Netflix, with viewers finally finding out which of the three finalists walk away with the huge $4.56 million cash prize.
The reality take on the streamer's hit Korean drama series Squid Game launched on Netflix on Wednesday 22nd November with the first five episodes, quickly hooking in viewers with its real-life versions of the deadly tasks we saw in the original series, as well as plenty of twists and turns.
From Red Light, Green Light, to the Glass Bridge challenge, viewers are likely wondering how Squid Game: The Challenge's producers went about recreating the original dystopian show's iconic sets.
Read on for everything you need to know about the Squid Game: The Challenge filming locations.
Where is Squid Game: The Challenge filmed?
Squid Game: The Challenge was filmed at Wharf Studios in London over the course of 16 days.
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A total of six interconnected sound stages were taken up by production to allow players to live inside a "completely immersive world".
The only point of the show where filming took place elsewhere was during the Red Light, Green Light game.
Red Light, Green Light was filmed at Cardington Studios in Bedford, Europe's largest indoor space. At over 100,000 square feet, the space was previously used to build airships and zeppelins in the 1920s and '30s.
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A lot of work went into making the competition look just as it did in the drama series, including items that were CGI'd into the original drama.
For example, the piggy bank that the players see fill up with money every time a contestant is eliminated was created for the very first time for Squid Game: The Challenge.
The same goes for the trapdoors in the Glass Bridge challenge.
Speaking about replicating the challenge, Squid Game: The Challenge’s production designer Mathieu Weekes told RadioTimes.com: "We were really strict with the lighting levels and blacking everything out.
"Even the stairwell to get to the bridge was blacked out, so the contestants had no idea how far up they were, to fully tap into the fear of the unknown as they reached the 'glass' panels to cross."
Games designer Ben Norman added: "We did initially go down the route of seeing if we could do it with glass.
"But it was a huge battle of safety, and without a shadow of a doubt, you could tell the difference between glass that could hold someone and glass that couldn't. We looked at other options, like using sugar glass, but trapdoors were the final idea."
Squid Game: The Challenge is available to stream on Netflix now. Sign up for Netflix from £6.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.
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