Neowiz co CEO (Sean Kim) mentions that LOP2 development is still going strong, but more importantly Director Choi and the team seem optimistic about it, which is hopeful.
“At this point, there is nothing specific we can share in detail,” he told Game Informer. “I can tell you that the team at Round8 Studio is excited about their work and fully focused on development.
“With the Lies of P DLC receiving further recognition through its various award wins and director Choi Ji-Won expressing strong confidence in the studio’s next project, we hope fans will continue to look forward to what’s ahead as much as we are.”
Lies of P 2 Team is “Fully Focused” on Development, But NEOWIZ Isn’t Sharing Specifics
Wow, this is literally the best one, and I never saw it until now.
[2023-9-19]
(VERY rough translation)
Q. Come to think of it, DLC was also being prepared. You said that the goal is to show what you couldn't show in the main story, but could you share the time period or a simplified idea of what/when you are going to show?
Choi Ji-Won: It has already been decided and gone into production. However, I will talk about the details after the development progresses further. However, if there is one thing I can say, it is that there will be a really strong/attractive story. If I were to talk about the concept of the DLC or something like that now, I would be betraying the expectations of users who are exchanging opinions about what the DLC will be like, so please understand.
Director Choi teasing the DLC's story focus.
네오위즈 산하 스튜디오 라운드8이 개발한 'P의 거짓'이 마침내 금일(19일), 정식 출시됐습니다. 출시에 이르기까지 'P의 거짓'은 그야말로 무수한 관심이 집중됐습니다. 피노키오를 잔혹동화, 다크 판타지로 재해석한 소울라이크라는 장르인 점, 그리고
He described it as a 정말 매력적인 story (beginning from "However, if there is one thing I can say") . 매력적 is hmm. it's hard to describe. It looks like people most commonly translate 매력 as "attractiveness", but I feel like in english, "attractive" is like a person. I would say it's like describing something with merit. In a general sense it's like "appealing", or "cool" or "interesting" . In a positive sense.
Q. It may be an early question, but I wonder if there is a plan for a sequel or next work, not DLC. If there is, I would like to hear what kind of concept it is. Will it be a work that shares the same worldview as the concept of cruel fairy tales?
Choi Ji-won: It is something that is being reviewed. However, "Lies of P was dark fairy tale concept, so we'll do that for the next instalment", it isn't like that. Rather than developing the story according to the [aesthetic] concept, we think about the story first and then decide on the concept, so for now, I think it would be good to think of it as one of the factors we're considering.
This is really important. So they aren't necessarily going to stick with "Dark fairy tale/ belle époque" for the sake of it, and the sequel may be aesthetically very different. The commitment to the adaptation of the source material led to the game's dark fantasy/steampunk-ish setting, not the other way around. So it isn't like they will absolutely stick to a similar visual style for the sequel.
I know that, almost definitely, they will be basing it off the public domain book, and not the movie. but the production of the movie was very infamously a nightmare. And I think it's going to be very difficult to not acknowledge the movie at all.
[They've already implicitly referenced the movie with the ruby slippers, which do not appear in the book]
TW sensitive IRL content under cut, at your discretion.
the original actor for the Tin man was hospitalized from poisoning from the silver dust used for the costume
the "snow" in the movie is just pure asbestos (actors died of cancer later in life)
Margaret Hamilton (Wicked witch) was severely burned (2nd-3rd degree) when a trap door failed to open on time and the flames went up during filming. She never sued because it would ruin her career. (Ironically she was also the only cast member Judy would say was ever kind to her on set)
16 year old Judy Garland (Dorothy) was pretty much tortured on set and it deeply affected the rest of her life. She will never ever be forgotten.
I didn't go into a lot of detail here. I hope they can honour her in some way. I totally don't think it's their responsibility to or anything, but I'm just expecting it to happen in some way. Even just listening to the song now and knowing some of what was happening in reality is extremely sad. It's surreal.
