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A continuation of Netflix’s smash hit KPop Demon Hunters could also be coming a lot before anybody anticipated. The fantasy musical blockbuster following the Ok-pop lady group Huntr/x, moonlighting as demon hunters, has surpassed all expectations, topping musical charts and persevering with to interrupt viewership data on Netflix.
This naturally led to an official KPop Demon Hunters sequel getting into growth. Nevertheless, a KPop Demon Hunters brief movie titled Debut: A KPop Demon Hunters Story was simply filed by the MPA Classification and Ranking Administration, that means we may even see a prequel brief very quickly.
KPop Demon Hunters has reached 300 million views on Netflix, led a particularly profitable weekend-long field workplace run, and is holding on to a 95% critics’ approval ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s a seemingly frontrunner for the Finest Animated Characteristic award on the forthcoming Oscars ceremony, and continues to dominate popular culture as an authorized world phenomenon.
What Debut: A KPop Demon Hunters’ Story Means For The Franchise
Rumi wanting over her shoulder at one thing in rising horror whereas derpy cat smiles behind her in KPop Demon Hunters
Netflix / Courtesy Everett Assortment
Assuming that the budding KPop Demon Hunters’ franchise is releasing this brief movie within the close to future, it can make it that rather more potential for the property to take care of its already outstanding momentum whereas followers await a correct sequel. In distinction, the “debut” title means that the brief movie is a prequel specializing in Huntr/x’s skilled debut.
The brief was probably reworked from components reduce from the characteristic movie, explaining its fast turnaround. It may be screened forward of one in every of Netflix’s upcoming restricted theatrical releases (which might seemingly lead to these motion pictures incomes some more money from individuals paying solely to see KPop Demon Hunters).
Relying on the timeline, this additionally implies that KPop Demon Hunters may very well be a contender for Finest Animated Brief on the Oscars in 2026. It’s a certainty that followers will likely be thrilled to see any new content material that includes Huntr/x, and that the discharge of Debut will maintain individuals enthusiastic about KPop Demon Hunters and permit its worldwide domination to proceed.
Launch Date
June 20, 2025
Runtime
96 minutes
Director
Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang
