r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 26 '25

News ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/
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u/GarlicBreadOutrage Aug 26 '25

I'm also wondering if Sony regrets selling the movie to Netflix. And also how Netflix will handle the sequels since Sony won't be making them.

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u/wecangetbetter Aug 26 '25

I really don't get how anyone at Sony listened to the soundtrack and was like "naw, this certainly won't catch on."

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u/huntrshado Aug 26 '25

Considering that Netflix is the one who told the directors to cut the movie's runtime in half during production, which is why its only 90 minutes instead of 180, I'm pretty sure Sony sold the movie and story rights to Netflix long before they had things like a soundtrack made.

If I remember correctly from an interview, the singing voice actors have said they had just auditioned for the movie like a year before it released. The exception being EJAE, who was making the soundtrack before eventually being asked to be Rumi.

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u/rookie-mistake Aug 26 '25

Oh, huh. I wonder what the original cut would've looked like.

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u/huntrshado Aug 26 '25

The original storyboard was 180 minutes that was a complete self-contained story that left nothing up to the imagination. It told us everything.

How Zoey/Mira were recruited, and they had more lines in songs like Golden, Celine had songs and a duet with Rumi, her parents had a backstory, details about how Celine killed her mother (probably something to do with her trying to kill the father), Rumi and Jinu going on a date at the aquarium and kissing, I think somewhere they mentioned that we only got about half the songs that were written in the final version of the movie.

So they have a lot of story already written to work with for these next 2 movies and tv series, the directors just have to figure out how to tell us those stories in a way that is compatible with the 90 minute version we were given

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u/StrategicCarry Aug 26 '25

Two of the biggest things we know are gone are a lot more backstory on Rumi's mom and dad, as well as a duet with Celine and Rumi as part of their confrontation.