Hwang additionally addressed the primary season’s reputation, including: “It took 12 years to carry the primary season of ‘Squid Sport’ to life final 12 months.
“However it took 12 days for ‘Squid Sport’ to turn out to be the most well-liked Netflix sequence ever. As a author, director and producer of ‘Squid Sport’, an enormous shout out to followers world wide. Thanks for watching and loving our present.”
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Hwang first spoke of a second sequence to the Related Press at a screening and Q&A in Los Angeles in December final 12 months. He mentioned (through Selection): “There’s been a lot strain, a lot demand and a lot love for a second season. So I nearly really feel such as you go away us no alternative! […] However I’ll say there’ll certainly be a second season. It’s in my head proper now. I’m within the planning course of presently.”
He additionally added that Lee Jung-jae will return as the primary character Seong Gi-hun. However – there is a twist. Throughout a digital panel with Weekly, he advised that Gi-hun might probably flip to the darkish aspect, saying: “The Entrance Man [Lee Byung-hun] who was additionally a previous winner however turned a Entrance Man, it is like Darth Vader. Some find yourself Jedi and a few turn out to be Darth Vader, proper? I believe that possibly Gi-hun will undergo a sure important level the place he’s put by a take a look at as effectively.”
Might Gi-hun actually be the following Entrance Man? Hwang Dong-hyuk additionally mentioned, “I am probably not in the best place to be discussing season two in an official setting, but when there have been to be a season two, within the first season that we noticed Gi-hun is a personality whose humanity is proven by or uncovered in sure conditions.
Park Hae-soo as Cho Sang-woo, Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun, HoYeon Jung as Kang Sae-byeok in Netflix’s Squid SportYOUNGKYU PARK/Netflix
“In different phrases, his humanity is proven by a really passive method. However I’d suppose that within the second season, what he has realized from the video games and his expertise within the first season, they’ll all be put to make use of in a extra energetic method.”
The hearsay in regards to the second season first staring doing the rounds on Twitter, with followers speculating that Hwang Dong-hyuk was planning a follow-up. Chatting with The Korean Instances, Hwang appeared to verify the hearsay, saying, “After about 12 years, the world has turned into a spot the place such peculiar, violent survival tales are literally welcomed.”
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