More than three years after the phenomenon sparked by the first season in September 2021, Squid Game will return on December 26 for a sequel eagerly awaited by Netflix subscribers. Season 2 of the South Korean series has left the suspense in recent years and only thirty short seconds of new images were offered in the first trailer last September.
Squid Game: the creator and the actors finally speak about the sequel
But fans of the most-watched series in the history of the American streaming platform finally have new information to get their teeth into! Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator, screenwriter and director of Squid Gamewas accompanied by actors Lee Jung-jae (the interpreter of the main character Seong Gi-hun, no 456) and Wi Ha-joon (aka police officer Hwang Jun-ho) at a convention of the Italian Comics and Games festival in Lucca, to answer questions from fans. During this event we learned that the protagonist decides, in the second season, to risk his life to put an end to the deadly game organized by the most fortunate. How ? By participating a second time!
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Season 2 of Squid Game : what's new?
After following his ordeal during the first episodes, viewers will find the island and the cult setting which shelters the hundreds of candidates who must all die, except the winner. But that won't stop the series from innovating, particularly through the formidable challenges that will punctuate the bloody competition: “most will be new, with an even more spectacular dimension, and they will take place in even more beautiful settings“. In addition to these new events, Seong Gi-hun sports shorter hair, inspired by the hero of the creator's favorite manga, Slam Dunk : “This marks the beginning of a transformation, of a new courage that he demonstrates. It shows that Seong Gi-hun is no longer a normal man after enduring the cruel ordeals of the first season. He has lost a lot of people around him, he can't return to a normal life“. Finally, Hwang Dong-hyuk and his actors have promised that all the ingredients that made the story successful will be there: fun, violence, and the denunciation of capitalism! Squid Game swill end in 2025 with a third and final season, announced by surprise this summer.
