
KPop Demon Hunters is one of the biggest movies of the summer, if not 2025. Many used their Netflix subscription to help make it the platform's most-watched original movie of all time, and to say there's an appetite for sequels jam-packed with more chart-topping songs is an understatement. It's wild to think there was once a version of this movie that didn't have music.
Co-writer and director Maggie Kang spoke about the movie at the Busan International Film Festival and said the original vision for the film looked much different from the final product. The music element didn't come into play, Kang explained, until she was starting to think about how the female heroes would conceal their job from the general public (via EW):