Netflix's 'Squid Game' creator says Donald Trump's election helped inspire him to finally make the hit show

The creator of "Squid Game," the immensely popular international hit for Netflix, revealed how the financial crisis over the past decade as well as the election of Donald Trump inspired him to make the show.

Filmmaker Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke with IndieWire where he revealed that he originally came up with the idea of "Squid Game," which he envisioned at the time as a movie, in 2008. 

"At the time, there was the Lehman Brothers crisis; the Korean economy was badly affected and I was also economically struggling," he explained. "Over the past 10 years, there were a lot of issues: There was the cryptocurrency boom, where people around the world, especially young people in Korea, would go all-in and invest all their money into cryptocurrencies. And there was the rise of IT giants like Facebook, Google, and in Korea, there’s Naver, and they are just restructuring our lives. It’s innovative but these IT giants also got very rich."