Three years after Squid Game grew to become a shock megahit for Netflix, we’re getting nearer and nearer to Season 2 — and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is dropping some breadcrumbs.
After Season 1 noticed Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun emerge from the lethal video games victorious, the follow-up will see him again within the competitors, albeit with some twists. Last week’s new official trailer revealed that the video games will function a brand new mechanic: after every spherical, the remaining contestants can vote to finish the video games then and there and stroll away with the winnings they’ve racked up thus far. Without the bulk voting in favor, nevertheless, the video games will proceed.
The rule clearly takes a toll on Gi-hun, who will be seen breaking down within the trailer, urging the contestants to get out of there. Hwang teased that side of Season 2 specificially in a latest dialog with The Hollywood Reporter, saying, “all through Seasons 2 and three, it’s going to be about that very journey by Gi-hun that you just’re going to be following, each bodily and emotionally.”
He elaborated extra on how he got here up with the plot of Season 2, telling the outlet:
“Of course I felt a specific amount of strain as a result of I knew that there was an enormous quantity of anticipation on the market, and truthfully once I was creating Season 1. I didn’t plan in any element that there can be a second season. However, I did have one thing in thoughts that if there have been to ever be a second season, I had this concept of what story I’d inform; I believed it will be the story of Gi-hun turning away from the place he was on the finish of Season 1 and going again into the video games with the intention to put a cease to the sport.”
Hwang additionally teased that the Gi-hun we see in Season 2 will probably be “very completely different” from the character we noticed in that first breakout season. “Gi-hun has skilled too many issues, witnessed too many deaths, for him to return to the way in which it was earlier than irrespective of how laborious he tries,” Hwang mentioned.
Squid Game Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on December 26. It’ll be adopted someday subsequent 12 months by the third and remaining season, Netflix introduced over the summer time. When requested by THR for an replace on how Season 3’s going, Hwang mentioned he is nearly completed enhancing the episodes, and added that Season 3 “naturally” felt just like the finale.
“I believed that with that story, I used to be capable of inform every thing that I wished to inform by the story of Squid Game and likewise within the perspective of Gi-hun as a personality, and I believed that we don’t want any additional tales from right here,” he continued.
In addition to Lee Jung-jae, Season 2 will see a lot of returning gamers, together with Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo. They’ll be joined by new solid members Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Sung-hoon, and Yang Dong-geun.
While we anticipate the brand new episodes, try our evaluate of Squid Game Season 1, which we known as “a candy-coated battle royale that thrives on making its gamers — and viewers — squirm.”
Alex Stedman is a Senior News Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or enhancing, yow will discover her studying fantasy novels or taking part in Dungeons & Dragons.
