The Platform 2: Cast, Story & Everything We Know

Summary "The Platform 2" is confirmed by Netflix, and may have a 2024 release.

The sequel features a new visual motif with an abundance of red lighting.

The storyline shifts to explore social and political problems as "The Platform" ends.

The Spanish social horror film The Platform found an international audience on Netflix in 2019, and now it is being followed by a sequel, The Platform 2. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia from a screenplay by David Desola and Pedro Rivero, The Platform is set within a futuristic prison facility in which inmates are housed on various platformed levels. Conflict arises between the levels because the inmates are fed by a single descending platform that stops briefly at each level and becomes more and more picked over as it moves further down.

Independently produced, The Platform made the rounds on the film festival circuit, and its People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival earned the movie a distribution deal with Netflix. When it finally arrived on Netflix, critics were generally positive, and the movie's writing overcame the ridiculous elements of the horror movie's plot. However, just one installment was not enough to capture the world of The Platform, and a highly-anticipated sequel is on the way that promises even more thinly veiled political commentary in horror form.

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The Platform 2 Latest News

The First Images Are Revealed

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Unlike the original which had a distinctly blue and green hue, the pictures feature an abundance of red lighting which may be the new visual motif in the sequel.

Though much is still unknown about the upcoming sequel, the latest news arrives in the form of the first images from The Platform 2. While the images don't reveal too much, they do show more of the prison arrangement in the new movie, and offer the first glimpse of Hovik Keuchkerian and Milena Smit who will be the new stars. Unlike the original which had a distinctly blue and green hue, the pictures feature an abundance of red lighting which may be the new visual motif in the sequel.

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The Platform 2 Is Confirmed

Netflix Announced The Sequel In 2023

Unlike the first film which was independently produced, The Platform 2 is a Netflix co-production, and the massive streamer announced the sequel in May 2023. Little news has surfaced about the production in the interim, and the first-look pictures stand as the only major update since Netflix revealed the follow-up. No release date has been announced, but it will likely come sometime in 2024 since the pictures suggest the filming is near its end or already completed.

The Platform debuted on Netflix on March 20, 2020.

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The Platform 2 Cast

New Cast Members Lead The Sequel

Little has been announced regarding the cast of The Platform 2, but based on what is known, it can be assumed that the ensemble will be completely new. The only two names attached to the film thus far are Hovik Keuchkerian and Milena Smit, though nothing is known about their characters at this juncture. They will presumably be the lead characters, and they are most certainly prisoners trapped within the dystopian facility. Because of the format of the movie, the ensemble probably won't be that large, and it will likely follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and have a small cast list.

The known cast of The Platform 2 includes:

Actor The Platform 2 Role Hovik Keuchkerian Unknown Milena Smit Unknown

The Platform 2 Story

Order Comes To The Hellish Prison

the description marks a shift in the story focus as the machinations of The Platform will no longer be the singular focus of the story.

The full story details for The Platform 2 haven't been revealed yet, but a brief synopsis suggests big changes are coming in the sequel. Netflix's one-liner for the movie says "A mysterious figure has managed to establish a new law in The Platform, but can justice truly be enforced in hell? And who will enforce it?" Though vague, the description marks a shift in the story direction as the machinations of The Platform will no longer be the singular focus of the story.

Instead, the sequel looks to be exploring solutions to the social and political problems that were posed in the first movie. Since The Platform was a thinly veiled commentary about class in modern society, The Platform 2 might be exploring the positives and negatives of trying to disrupt the status quo. Regardless, the ending of The Platform hinted at a much larger and more terrifying world beyond the prison, and the sequel could delve deeper into the dystopia.

The Platform The Platform is a Spanish sci-fi movie that takes place in a vertical prison where prisoners on the upper levels get the most food and those on the lower levels are left to starve. The 2019 dystopian thriller was released on Netflix to worldwide acclaim.