Anonymous
8/2/2025, 8:02:28 AM
No.149668587
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/co/ fumbles
>Seven years ago, Maggie Kang, who was working at Sony Animation, approached the company with a pitch for a movie about KPop idols who also happened to be demon hunters. After partnering with Chris Appelhans as co-writer and co-director, the pair put together a more formal pitch for the movie. And then Sony passed on KPop Demon Hunters.
>“We pitched the movie to Sony,” Kang explained in a recent interview. “And they passed on it. It’s a big risk to do a movie with a full Asian cast on something that’s very culturally Korean, which hasn’t been done before. K-pop was at its peak, but it could have plateaued. There was a lot of uncertainty with that. So we pitched it to Netflix. We had a full draft, a couple of demo songs, a ton of amazing art and a couple of scenes that I had [story]boarded that we cut. And there were three different animatics samples that we shared; and they loved it. And then we were off to the races.”
Sucks to be Sony!
>“We pitched the movie to Sony,” Kang explained in a recent interview. “And they passed on it. It’s a big risk to do a movie with a full Asian cast on something that’s very culturally Korean, which hasn’t been done before. K-pop was at its peak, but it could have plateaued. There was a lot of uncertainty with that. So we pitched it to Netflix. We had a full draft, a couple of demo songs, a ton of amazing art and a couple of scenes that I had [story]boarded that we cut. And there were three different animatics samples that we shared; and they loved it. And then we were off to the races.”
Sucks to be Sony!
