It may very well be probably the most inevitable announcement ever made, however now it's official: Squid Recreation will return for a second season. Netflix confirmed the information on Sunday, whereas providing a couple of hints about what's to come back within the hit Korean dystopian drama.
Squid Recreation turned Netflix’s most-watched collection when it was launched in September. The present tells the story of cash-strapped contestants who play childhood video games for an opportunity of life-changing sums of cash. It impressed numerous memes and Halloween costumes, kickstarted gross sales of inexperienced tracksuits and laid naked the extent of South Korea’s private debt disaster.
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Squid Recreation is formally coming again for Season 2! pic.twitter.com/4usO2Zld39
On Sunday, author and director Hwang Dong-hyuk teased a couple of particulars in regards to the present’s second season in a message launched by Netflix.
The characters Seong Gi-hun and the Entrance Man will return, he stated, and “the person within the swimsuit with ddakji is likely to be again”, referencing the mysterious character performed by actor Gong Yoo.
“You’ll even be launched to Younger-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su,” he added. Younger-hee is a motion-sensing animatronic doll that featured in one of many video games – Purple Mild, Inexperienced Mild –and shortly turned a logo for the present.
Netflix didn't say when the brand new season can be launched, however Hwang has beforehand estimated it might arrive in 2023 or 2024.
In an interview with the Guardian recent after the present’s success final yr, Hwang stated he was “contemplating” a sequel.
“I've a really high-level image in my thoughts, however I’m not going to work on it right away,” he stated. Final month, he instructed Vainness Honest that he wished the following season “to ask the query, ‘Is true solidarity between people potential?’”
And the second season might not be the top of Squid Recreation; in an earnings name in January, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos stated “the Squid Recreation universe has simply begun”.
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