Summary

• "The Platform 2" is confirmed by Netflix, and will premiere in October 2024.
• 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.

The Platform 2 Latest News

A Release Date & Trailer

Over a year after the highly-anticipated horror sequel was first announced, the latest news comes in the form of the release date and trailer for The Platform 2. The Netflix original is now slated to arrive on October 4, and will stream exclusively on the platform. As for the trailer, the creepy two-minute clip opens with a wrapped corpse being tossed down the massive chute in the middle of the prison complex, and that is only the beginning of the visual horrors. Nothing is explicitly revealed about the movie's plot, but the same sort of tension from the original is expected.

The Platform 2 Release Date

The Horror Sequel Streams In October

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. Though it was in limbo for most of year, a release date has finally been announced for the horror follow-up. Just in time for the Halloween season, Netflix will stream The Platform 2 starting on October 4.

The Platform debuted on Netflix on March 20, 2020.

The Platform 2 Cast

New Cast 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. Hovik Keuchkerian and Milena Smit were the first cast announced, 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. ing Smit and Keuchkerian are Harry Potter alum Natalia Tena, and Spanish actor Óscar Jaenada as fellow prisoners.

The known cast of The Platform 2 includes:

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 2 Trailer

Watch The Teaser Below

In order to reveal the release date for The Platform 2, Netflix dropped a teaser trailer for the politically-charged horror follow-up in July 2024. The teaser opens with an unidentified corpse being dropped down the center of the complex before cutting to various scenes of prisoners tearing at food scraps. Several horrifying scenes of violence are teased, and it's clear that something is amiss, even if the trailer doesn't explicitly explain.