Available since Thursday, December 26 on Netflix, season 2 of Squid Game already seems on track to be a real triumph, in the same way as the previous chapter. But will the program have a third season? We tell you everything.
In 2021, to everyone’s surprise, Netflix announced that Squid Game had the best start ever for a series on their platform with a total of 111 million views in less than a month. It was only a matter of time before the South Korean phenomenon, created by Hwang Dong-hyeok, is renewed. Officially confirmed in June 2022 by the streaming service, season 2 of the show hosted by Lee Jung-jea finally made its big return to the small screens at the end of 2024, just in time for the holidays. Will she still be entitled to a sequel?
Summary: Is a third season planned for Squid Game ?
A season 3 of Squid Game is indeed in preparation on Netflix but…
While the seven new episodes of season 2 of Squid Game have just been released on Netflix, it turns out that the crazy adventures of player 456 are far from over. Indeed, Squid Game will be entitled to a third season, which was announced and confirmed on July 31 by the producers.
At the microphone of the American media Entertainment Weekly, le showrunner Hwang Dong-hyeok revealed that he didn’t want to, and did not intend to do more than one season of Squid Game at the startwhen he imagined the series. According to him, the program should have ended in 2021: “ Honestly, When I started working on the first season, I had no plans or ideas about doing more.. In Korea, it’s not very common for series to have multiple seasons. Also, season 1 was asking a lot and was incredibly demanding, so I didn’t think I would have the confidence to work again on other seasons where I would be both writer, director and creator. “. He still stated that he had already had ideas for a potential sequel, but that they had never really materialized.
Seeing the unprecedented success of the series, Hwang Dong-hyeok decided to dive back into the universe of Squid Game and to continue to develop his ideas, while keeping the same themes and certain characters, but modifying and accentuating the issues.
…she will be the last!
Squid Game will then come back for a third season, which will also be the lastas the director assured: “ The reasons why I decided to stop after season 3 is because I think the story I wanted to tell completely ended at the end of the third season. Everything I wanted to do was done with and in the last chapter. »
At the time of writing these lines, alone the broadcast date of season 3 has been announced: 2025. However, we don’t know the plot details yet. If we follow the logic of the last episodes, the next chapter should resume its story where it left off in the arena or a few years later, always with Gi-hun at the heart of the adventures.
Another version of Squid Game is currently in development
However, the Squid Game universe is not going to bow out! Yes, while the eyes of the world were glued to the South Korean phenomenon, Netflix announced in October that David Fincher would direct the American remake. The cult director Fight Club, Seven et The Social Network will continue to collaborate with the streaming giant, 5 years after the end of Mindhunter.
