'KPop Demon Hunters' creator sees potential for more Huntr/x — but not in live action

“KPop Demon Hunters” creator Maggie Kang thinks there’s imaginable for much Huntr/x stories successful the future, but lone successful animation.

In a caller interrogation with the BBC, the co-director of the Netflix improvement said determination is thing officially successful the works, but she thinks “there’s decidedly much we tin bash with these characters successful this world.” Kang and her co-director Chris Appelhans besides assured fans that if different “KPop Demon Hunters” were to happen, “it volition beryllium a communicative that deserves to beryllium a sequel, and it volition beryllium thing that we privation to see.”

Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the movie follows a fashionable K-pop miss radical whose members usage their euphony and creation moves (and magical powers) to combat demons and support the world. But Huntr/x’s person Rumi is keeping a concealed from her bandmates Mira and Zoey that could pb to their downfall.

Since its June debut, “KPop Demon Hunters” and its catchy soundtrack person smashed galore records connected Netflix arsenic good arsenic the Billboard charts. The movie’s monolithic popularity led to a constricted theatrical tally for sing-along screenings arsenic good arsenic unrecorded performances of its songs.

With Hollywood’s existent inclination of sequels and remakes, it’s casual to judge that “KPop Demon Hunters” could spawn its ain franchise. But Kang and Appelhans some importune that a live-action adaptation should beryllium disconnected the table.

“It’s truly hard to ideate these characters successful a unrecorded enactment world,” Kang told the BBC, pointing to the code and comedic elements successful “KPop.” “It would consciousness excessively grounded. So wholly it wouldn’t enactment for me.”

Appelhans agreed that the characters successful “KPop Demon Hunters” are champion suited for animation and disquieted a live-action mentation of them could consciousness excessively “stilted.”

“One of the large things astir animation is that you marque these composites of impossibly large attributes,” Appelhans told the BBC. “Rumi tin beryllium this goofy comedian and past singing and doing a spinning back-kick a 2nd aboriginal and past free-falling done the sky. The joyousness of animation is however acold you tin propulsion and elevate what’s possible.”

For now, it seems that Huntr/x volition support shining lone successful the mean they were calved to beryllium — successful animation.