{"id":2087856,"date":"2025-10-13T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2087856"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:47:10","slug":"kpop-demon-hunters-creator-rejects-live-action-movie-it-would-feel-too-grounded-it-wouldnt-work-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kpop-demon-hunters-creator-rejects-live-action-movie-it-would-feel-too-grounded-it-wouldnt-work-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 Creator Rejects Live-Action Movie: \u2018It Would Feel Too Grounded. It Wouldn\u2019t Work for Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14205554\/\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3133422\/\">Maggie Kang<\/a> recently told the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co1075114\/\">BBC<\/a> that she does not want to see her record-breaking <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> animated movie getting the live-action treatment in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many elements of the tone and the comedy that are so suited for animation,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm13830986\/\">Kang<\/a> told the news outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to imagine these characters in a live-action world. It would feel too grounded. So totally it wouldn\u2019t work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since premiering in late June, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14205554\/\">KPop Demon Hunters<\/a>\u201d has turned into a cultural phenomenon as Netflix\u2019s most-watched movie in history. The film\u2019s soundtrack topped the Billboard charts and made history as the first soundtrack album to have four songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Lead single \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6706352\/\">Golden<\/a>\u201d has spent eight weeks and counting at No. 1. A sing-a-long version of the movie was released in theaters in late August and grossed $18 million in one weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d creator Maggie Kang recently told the BBC that she does not want to see her record-breaking Netflix animated movie getting the live-action treatment in the future. \u201cThere\u2019s so many elements of the tone and the comedy that are so suited for animation,\u201d Kang told the news outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s really hard to imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2087857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2087856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018KPop-Demon-Hunters-Creator-Rejects-Live-Action-Movie-\u2018It-Would-Feel.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087858,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2087856\/revisions\/2087858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2087857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2087856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2087856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}