‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Officially Has a New Streaming Home
Although the sequel to KPop Demon Hunters isn’t expected to arrive until 2029, Netflix has been pulling out all the stops to support and expand its globe-conquering, most-watched film of all time in the meantime. This year has seen the launch of an anniversary LEGO set, an official Dungeons & Dragons campaign inspired by the movie’s colorful world, a comic book reimagining of HUNTR/X’s battle with the Saja Boys, and a crossover with Magic: The Gathering, among many other things. The streamer is also aiming to get fans more directly involved in the action with in-person experiences, like a new immersive, Honmoon-restoring adventure coming to Netflix House Dallas and Philadelphia this month and a global concert slated for next year. Of course, new content has also been dropping on the platform itself.
Netflix launched the KPop Demon Hunters Bonus Content collection back in March, though there wasn’t much to it at the time. The videos included totaled around ten minutes and served to highlight the global impact of HUNTR/X’s golden adventure, from fan covers to cosplay and reactions from the singing voices behind Rumi, Mira, and Zoe to fan performances. That has since expanded massively as of November 2, with nearly 78 minutes of content added to the “PLAYlist Stories,” consisting of new Bonus Content, the stop-motion HUNTR/X Backstage Pass series exploring what the girl group does behind the scenes, hand-made KPop Toy Creations, the challenge-filled, film-inspired Play Games With Us series of stop-motion shorts, and so much more. With a new treasure trove to dig into, Netflix has created a new home for everything KPop Demon Hunters.
Subscribers can now access the new KPop Demon Hunters: For the Fans! hub to find the Oscar-winning movie and all its side content in one convenient place. In addition to everything above, it features new choreography videos designed to show viewers how it’s done when it comes to dancing along to the many hit songs from the soundtrack, lyric videos for seven of the songs, the sing-along version of the film, and even a cozy KPop-inspired fireplace. The choreo videos have a bit of fun with each lesson, letting viewers watch as Rumi, Mira, and Zoe rehearse “How It’s Done” before learning the moves to a handful of tracks straight from the film’s choreographers themselves. Nain and Leejung Lee also provide a comprehensive breakdown of how each hunter’s personalities are reflected in how they dance.
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
- This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends. - You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
everything you touch is older than your entire family line. - The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight. - You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.
- One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together. - You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea. - The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
harder because of that rather than in spite of it. - You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
it.
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.
- Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept. - You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer. - The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people. - You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
got told wrong.
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.
- Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse. - You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
something nobody thought to test for. - The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
every time a prophecy tries to get in the way. - Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.
‘KPop Demon Hunters 2’ Will Get a Proper Theatrical Run
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Not much is set in stone with KPop Demon Hunters 2, but Arden Cho, May Hong, and Ji-young Yoo are expected to take the stage again, with EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami likely returning to sing. Writer-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans will also be back at the helm to mastermind the next chapter of their K-pop supergroup. After over 670 million views and four top ten hits on the Billboard Hot 100, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos confirmed an unprecedented theatrical rollout is being planned to make the sequel even bigger. He recently said at Bloomberg’s Screentime that it’s one of the films Netflix is aiming for a “big, broad, global” theatrical release as part of the platform’s evolving strategy to give more of its original projects a proper run on the silver screen.
The new KPop Demon Hunters: For the Fans! hub is available to access now on Netflix. Get a look at the hub and its contents in the gallery above.
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