It could be a protracted look ahead to the return of Netflix's most-watched sequence ever. Here is all the things we all know to date about 'Squid Recreation' season 2.
Squid Recreation made historical past when it debuted on Netflix in September 2021. The South Korean survival drama tv sequence surpassed Bridgerton to turn into the most-watched present ever on the streaming service, a report that the sequence nonetheless holds at this time. Squid Recreation contains a competitors involving 456 gamers who're struggling financially and play lethal kids’s video games to win the grand prize. The sequence was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards and received six, together with Excellent Lead Actor for Lee Jung-jae and Excellent Director for Hwang Dong-hyuk.
After Squid Recreation‘s huge worldwide success, Netflix renewed the sequence for season two on June 12, 2022. Netflix can also be growing a actuality competitors present based mostly on the scripted sequence. HollywoodLife has all of the updates on Squid Recreation season 2 beneath, together with the discharge date, the forged, and extra.
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Squid Recreation Season 1 Recap
Season 1 of Squid Recreation follows Seong Gi-hun, a divorced father who's invited to play a sequence of youngsters’s video games for a large money prize. After he’s taken to an unknown location, he finds himself amongst 456 complete gamers who're imprisoned by masked guards who take orders from the Entrance Man. They play the primary recreation, Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle, and uncover that the losers are killed on the spot, with every loss of life including cash to the grand prize. Gi-hun kinds alliances with a few of the different gamers together with his childhood pal Cho Sang-woo, North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok, Pakistani migrant employee Ali Abdul, and an aged man with a mind tumor named Oh II-nam. Their enemies are gangster Jang Deok-su and con lady Han Mi-nyeo.
Because the video games are happening, police officer Hwang Jun-ho sneaks in to search out his lacking brother. Jun-ho makes it to a different island and tries to name for assist, earlier than the Entrance Man finds him and divulges himself to be Jun-ho’s brother, In-ho. Jun-ho refuses to hitch the video games and is shot by In-ho and falls off a cliff to his presumed loss of life.
The ultimate recreation comes right down to Gi-hun and Sang-woo. Gi-hun lets Sang-woo stay, however Sang-woo decides to stab himself within the neck and he dies. Gi-hun comes house with a financial institution card to entry the prize cash however he learns that his mom has died. One 12 months passes and Gi-hun nonetheless hasn’t used the prize cash. He discovers that Oh II-nam is alive and is the mastermind behind the video games. Oh II-nam dies and Gi-hun decides to present a share of the prize cash to Sae-byeok’s brother and Sang-woo’s mom. As Gi-hun prepares to fly to LA to reconnect along with his daughter, he sees the identical recruiter who obtained him to play the video games, and calls a telephone quantity to search out out who's working the sport now. After the individual on the telephone name refers to Gi-hun as Participant 456, he decides to not board the airplane.
When Will Squid Recreation Season 2 Come Out?
At a press convention days after the 2022 Emmy Awards, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that Squid Recreation season 2 will movie in 2023 and be launched in 2024. “We are going to begin capturing Season 2 subsequent 12 months and it’ll be launch the next 12 months,” he mentioned, in keeping with Selection.
Who Is In The Forged Of Squid Recreation Season 2?
The Squid Recreation season 2 forged will most likely be very totally different than season 1, since so many characters died. Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Kang Sae-byeok (HoYeon Jung), Ali Abdul (Anupam Tripathi), Oh II-nam (O Yeong-su), Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), Jang Deok-su (Heo Sung-tae), and Han Mi-nyeo (Kim Joo-ryong) didn't survive the primary season. However writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has mentioned that he’d deliver again a few of the useless characters. “I wish to revive Ji-young, however her greatest pal Sae-byeok additionally died, so I’m considering what to do,” he mentioned at a information convention in Sept. 2022. “So many characters died, particularly beloved ones died. I’m sorry I killed them so simply; I didn’t know this was coming.”
Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the Entrance Man/Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) didn’t die and will likely be in season two. This was confirmed by Hwang Dong-hyuk in a letter that Netflix shared once they renewed the present.
“It took 12 years to deliver the primary season of Squid Recreation to life final 12 months. Nevertheless it took 12 days for Squid Recreation to turn into the most well-liked Netflix sequence ever,” Hwang mentioned. “As the author, director and producer of Squid Recreation, an enormous shout out to followers world wide. Thanks for watching and loving our present. And now, Gi-hun returns. The Entrance Man returns. Season 2 is coming. The person within the swimsuit with ddakji may be again. You’ll even be launched to Younger-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su. Be a part of us as soon as extra for an entire new spherical.”
There’s an opportunity that Leonardo DiCaprio seems in Squid Recreation sooner or later. And no, that’s not a joke! Hwang Dong-hyuk mentioned on the Sept. 2022 press convention, “There will likely be no recognized Hollywood actor in Season 2. That’s not within the plan and if the stage modifications, perhaps in Season 3 – however for Season 2, it's nonetheless set in Korea. Leonardo DiCaprio did say he’s an enormous fan of ‘Squid Recreation,’ so perhaps if time or probabilities permit, we will ask him to hitch the video games.”
What Will Occur In Squid Recreation Season 2?
Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed on the press convention that they’ve finalized which video games will likely be performed within the second season. He additionally confirmed that there will likely be a much bigger manufacturing finances for the season 2, in keeping with Selection. On the Emmys pink carpet, Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that Gi-hun will likely be in search of revenge in season 2 and can come again “with a distinct character, extra severe,” per Deadline.
Hwang Dong-hyuk teased what could possibly be in retailer for season 2 earlier than the present was even formally renewed. “There are another tales within the sequence that haven't been addressed. For instance, the story of the police officer and the story of his brother, The Entrance Man,” he advised The Hollywood Reporter in October 2021. “So if I find yourself creating season 2, I’d prefer to discover that storyline — what's going on between these two brothers? After which I might additionally go into the story of that recruiter within the swimsuit who performs the sport of ddakji with Gi-hun and provides him the cardboard within the first episode.”
There’s additionally a robust probability that we get Squid Recreation season 3. “I’m in talks with Netflix over season two in addition to season three,” Hwang advised The Korea Occasions in December 2021. “We are going to come to a conclusion any time quickly.”
The Squid Recreation Actuality Present
Squid Recreation: The Problem was introduced in June 2022. Netflix mentioned that it is going to be “the largest actuality competitors sequence ever,” with 456 gamers competing to win $4.56 million. In accordance with Selection, contestants will undergo a sequence of video games impressed by the unique present, plus new additions, that are all supposed to check their methods, alliances and character as others are eradicated round them. Casting is open to anybody who can converse English the world over.