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You know where you reach a point in life when you just know you are old? For some, it is when their knees start to creak, or they get out of breath jogging upstairs. For others, it is when a cultural phenomenon completely passes you by. This was, for me, yet another sign of my advancing years. When I had absolutely no idea what K-Pop Demon Hunters was.
I first became dimly aware of it from some memes lurking deep on a social media feed, but still, it didn’t really register. Then somebody brought it up at LMO Towers, and me and Yoda, as resident old farts, looked at each other with confusion on our faces. What was this K-Pop Demon Hunters thing that the kids are talking about?
It turns out it is pretty big on Netflix. Kind of a big deal. K-Pop Demon Hunters is an animated feature about a fictional best-selling girl band that also slays demons as a secondary job. So Korean Buffy then?
After a June 20th debut, it has somehow topped Netflix’s own ratings for weeks, but also driven a No. 1 single into the Billboard Top 100. Last time I listened to the Billboard Top 100, there seemed to be lots of women singing about how they ran the world, and lots of angry urban men shouting. It might have been a while ago.
So I had to do some research:
It’s even worse than you could possibly imagine. It also turns out that this is where half the songs are from that you see low-energy white women doing funny little low-energy dances to on TikTok. Suddenly, it all makes sense, and frankly, if this is pop culture, then you can keep it.
Now, get off my lawn!
Anyway, the world turns, regardless of my disdain for a lot of it. So, inevitably, Puck News is reporting that Sony Pictures is currently in negotiations with directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans for a sequel.
The report says that the contract situation is interesting. Sony can produce any spinoff or sequel, and Netflix has no obligations to renegotiate anything. So if Netflix doesn’t want it, they can shop it around elsewhere. With what appears to be a bona fide phenom on their hands, that doesn’t seem likely.
Sony is set to make $20 million on the first movie, which is about to get a limited theatrical release in the form of sing-along shows.
Shoot me. Shoot me now.
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