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Squid Game made historical past when it debuted on Netflix in September 2021. The South Korean survival drama tv sequence surpassed Bridgerton to turn into the most-watched present ever on the streaming service, a file that the sequence nonetheless holds at this time. Squid Sport includes a competitors involving 456 gamers who’re struggling financially and play lethal youngsters’s video games to win the grand prize. The sequence was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards and gained six, together with Excellent Lead Actor for Lee Jung-jae and Excellent Director for Hwang Dong-hyuk.
After Squid Sport‘s huge worldwide success, Netflix renewed the sequence for season two on June 12, 2022. Netflix can be creating a actuality competitors present primarily based on the scripted sequence. HollywoodLife has all of the updates on Squid Sport season 2 beneath, together with the discharge date, the solid, and extra.
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Season 1 of Squid Sport follows Seong Gi-hun, a divorced father who’s invited to play a sequence of kids’s video games for an enormous money prize. After he’s taken to an unknown location, he finds himself amongst 456 complete gamers who’re imprisoned by masked guards who take orders from the Entrance Man. They play the primary recreation, Purple Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle, and uncover that the losers are killed on the spot, with every loss of life including cash to the grand prize. Gi-hun varieties alliances with a number of the different gamers together with his childhood pal Cho Sang-woo, North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok, Pakistani migrant employee Ali Abdul, and an aged man with a mind tumor named Oh II-nam. Their enemies are gangster Jang Deok-su and con girl Han Mi-nyeo.
Because the video games are occurring, police officer Hwang Jun-ho sneaks in to seek out his lacking brother. Jun-ho makes it to a different island and tries to name for assist, earlier than the Entrance Man finds him and divulges himself to be Jun-ho’s brother, In-ho. Jun-ho refuses to affix the video games and is shot by In-ho and falls off a cliff to his presumed loss of life.
The ultimate recreation comes right down to Gi-hun and Sang-woo. Gi-hun lets Sang-woo stay, however Sang-woo decides to stab himself within the neck and he dies. Gi-hun comes residence with a financial institution card to entry the prize cash however he learns that his mom has died. One 12 months passes and Gi-hun nonetheless hasn’t used the prize cash. He discovers that Oh II-nam is alive and is the mastermind behind the video games. Oh II-nam dies and Gi-hun decides to provide a share of the prize cash to Sae-byeok’s brother and Sang-woo’s mom. As Gi-hun prepares to fly to LA to reconnect together with his daughter, he sees the identical recruiter who acquired him to play the video games, and calls a telephone quantity to seek out out who’s operating the sport now. After the particular person on the telephone name refers to Gi-hun as Participant 456, he decides to not board the aircraft.
At a press convention days after the 2022 Emmy Awards, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that Squid Sport season 2 will movie in 2023 and be launched in 2024. “We’ll begin capturing Season 2 subsequent 12 months and it’ll be launch the next 12 months,” he stated, based on Variety.
The Squid Sport season 2 solid will in all probability be very totally different than season 1, since so many characters died. Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Kang Sae-byeok (HoYeon Jung), Ali Abdul (Anupam Tripathi), Oh II-nam (O Yeong-su), Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), Jang Deok-su (Heo Sung-tae), and Han Mi-nyeo (Kim Joo-ryong) didn’t survive the primary season. However writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has stated that he’d carry again a number of the lifeless characters. “I wish to revive Ji-young, however her finest pal Sae-byeok additionally died, so I’m pondering what to do,” he stated at a news conference in Sept. 2022. “So many characters died, particularly beloved ones died. I’m sorry I killed them so simply; I didn’t know this was coming.”
Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the Entrance Man/Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) didn’t die and might be in season two. This was confirmed by Hwang Dong-hyuk in a letter that Netflix shared once they renewed the present.
“It took 12 years to carry the primary season of Squid Sport to life final 12 months. However it took 12 days for Squid Sport to turn into the most well-liked Netflix sequence ever,” Hwang stated. “As the author, director and producer of Squid Sport, an enormous shout out to followers world wide. Thanks for watching and loving our present. And now, Gi-hun returns. The Entrance Man returns. Season 2 is coming. The person within the swimsuit with ddakji could be again. You’ll even be launched to Younger-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su. Be a part of us as soon as extra for an entire new spherical.”
There’s an opportunity that Leonardo DiCaprio seems in Squid Sport someday. And no, that’s not a joke! Hwang Dong-hyuk stated on the Sept. 2022 press convention, “There might be no identified Hollywood actor in Season 2. That’s not within the plan and if the stage modifications, possibly in Season 3 – however for Season 2, it’s nonetheless set in Korea. Leonardo DiCaprio did say he’s a giant fan of ‘Squid Sport,’ so possibly if time or possibilities enable, we are able to ask him to affix the video games.”
Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed on the press convention that they’ve finalized which video games might be performed within the second season. He additionally confirmed that there might be a much bigger manufacturing finances for the season 2, based on Selection. On the Emmys crimson carpet, Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that Gi-hun might be in search of revenge in season 2 and can come again “with a special character, extra critical,” per Deadline.
Hwang Dong-hyuk teased what might be in retailer for season 2 earlier than the present was even formally renewed. “There are another tales within the sequence that haven’t been addressed. For instance, the story of the police officer and the story of his brother, The Entrance Man,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter in October 2021. “So if I find yourself creating season 2, I’d wish to discover that storyline — what’s going on between these two brothers? After which I may additionally go into the story of that recruiter within the swimsuit who performs the sport of ddakji with Gi-hun and offers him the cardboard within the first episode.”
There’s additionally a powerful likelihood that we get Squid Sport season 3. “I’m in talks with Netflix over season two in addition to season three,” Hwang advised The Korea Times in December 2021. “We’ll come to a conclusion any time quickly.”
Squid Sport: The Problem was introduced in June 2022. Netflix stated that it is going to be “the most important actuality competitors sequence ever,” with 456 gamers competing to win $4.56 million. In accordance with Variety, contestants will undergo a sequence of video games impressed by the unique present, plus new additions, that are all supposed to check their methods, alliances and character as others are eradicated round them. Casting is open to anybody who can converse English internationally.