Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says season 2 is “a lot crueller, scarier, and extra ugly” than the primary.
After the incredible first season of Squid Sport, anticipation is sky-high for season 2. It received’t be straightforward, however creator Hwang Dong-hyuk appears assured that the brand new season will reside as much as the hype with a darker story.
“I imagine what we’ve created on Season 2 is a deeper, extra superior story,” Hwang informed Empire. “I really feel it may even surpass Season 1. However bodily, mentally, it was not straightforward. A few of the sequences we shot had been probably the most difficult in my complete profession. It was… hell.” He went on to tease that the second season received’t be a stroll within the half. “I even had some considerations as a result of the story informed within the second season is far crueller, scarier and extra ugly than the primary,” he stated. “Truthfully, I believed to myself… ‘Is that this an excessive amount of for folks to deal with?’” Will Squid Sport season 2 be the Empire Strikes Again of the sequence? Time will inform, but it surely’s already been introduced {that a} third and remaining season will carry the sequence to a detailed.
The official synopsis for the brand new season reads: “Three years after successful Squid Sport, Participant 456 stays decided to seek out the folks behind the sport and put an finish to their vicious sport. Utilizing this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun begins with the obvious of locations: search for the person in a pointy go well with enjoying ddakji within the subway. However when his efforts lastly yield outcomes, the trail towards taking down the group proves to be deadlier than he imagined: to finish the sport, he must re-enter it.”
Hwang Dong-hyuk as soon as once more serves as director, author, and producer of Squid Sport season 2, with Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo reprising their roles from the primary season. New solid members embody Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Gained Ji-an.
Netflix can also be transferring ahead with a second season of Squid Sport: The Problem, a actuality sequence through which 456 gamers compete for a US$4.56 million money prize by competing in challenges based mostly on these within the sequence… though with out all of the dying. There have additionally been rumblings that David Fincher is growing an English-language Squid Sport sequence, however nothing has been confirmed. Squid Sport season 2 will debut on Netflix on December twenty sixth.
