Audiences rejoice, Squid Recreation is again.
Netflix introduced {that a} second season of the massively fashionable South Korean drama collection Squid Recreation is on the best way quickly with an eery teaser trailer and message from the show-runner.
A digicam eye friends again at viewers on this temporary teaser — the attention of the enormous animatronic doll that launched Squid Recreation‘s determined contestants to the lethal sport.
“Purple mild… GREENLIGHT!” Netflix captioned the publish, referring to the youngsters’s sport that featured in Squid Recreation‘s pilot, wherein 456 contestants battle to remain alive in a multi-round sport present; all within the hopes of profitable an enormous money prize that may clear their money owed.
Together with the trailer was a message from the present’s creator, author, director and govt producer Hwang Dong-Hyuk, who revealed among the characters who will return for season two — a query that has been murky for the reason that finish of its first season.
Squid Recreation, very like Recreation of Thrones, didn’t shrink back from killing off lots of its most beloved essential characters.
However the present’s ruthlessness with its fan-favourite characters hardly pushed viewers away. Hwang opened his assertion by saying, “It took 12 years to convey the primary season of ‘Squid Recreation’ to life final yr. However it took 12 days for ‘Squid Recreation’ to turn into the most well-liked Netflix collection ever.”
“Thanks for watching and loving our present,” the director wrote.
Hwang confirmed that the collection’ lovable protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the masked antagonist the Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) will each return for season two.
A nonetheless of actor Lee Jung-jae portraying Seong Gi-hun in Netflix’s hit present Squid Recreation.
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Seong Gi-hun is a divorced gambler who indicators on to Squid Recreation to be able to assist his household, particularly his younger daughter. Not a lot is understood in regards to the shadowy administrator of the sport, the Entrance Man, however a significant reveal about his backstory performed out towards the tip of season one.
Maybe then, Hwang is getting ready to allow us to take a better look behind the Entrance Man’s angular masks in season two.
Hwang additionally wrote that “The person within the swimsuit with ddakji is likely to be again,” referring to the suave salesman who recruited Seong Gi-hun to Squid Recreation within the first episode of season one. In ddakji, two gamers every attempt to flip over the folded sq. tile of their opponent.
The character is performed by the massively fashionable Korean actor Gong Yoo. Audiences might know him finest from his lead function in Practice to Busan, a 2016 South Korean zombie film that spawned an American remake presently within the works.
One of the crucial thrilling bulletins to come back out of Hwang’s assertion was the reveal of a brand new character: Cheol-su. This character is billed because the “boyfriend” of Younger-hee, the animatronic doll featured within the teaser trailer.
“Be part of us as soon as extra for an entire new spherical,” the assertion mysteriously concludes.
After the huge success of Squid Recreation season one, a follow-up season was nearly inevitable. Squid Recreation stays Netflix’s largest present to this point, with world audiences watching 1.65 billion hours of the present inside the first 4 weeks of its launch.
That is made all of the extra exceptional contemplating that the solid and inventive group behind the present had been principally unknown exterior of South Korea when Squid Recreation aired final fall.
“There’s been a lot demand, love and a spotlight for a season two,” Hwang stated final yr after the present aired. “So I really feel I’ve no alternative however to make a season two.”
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos formally confirmed that Squid Recreation would get a second season in January, however episodes doubtless gained’t begin airing till the finish of 2023 or the beginning of 2024.
Government producer Kim Ji-yeon up to date Netflix’s press outlet Tudum on how manufacturing for season two goes.
“We’re engaged on the script proper now and making the type of the story,” Kim stated.
“However there’s positively a whole lot of stress on find out how to make [Season 2] even higher. I do know that a whole lot of the totally different followers and audiences have loved the collection very a lot, however actually we’re specializing in find out how to make it much more joyful to the worldwide viewers.”
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