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Squid Gamewill be back for round two.
The show’s creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, confirmed the plans for a second season of the South Korean survival drama in a recent interview with theAssociated Press.
“So there’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season,” he told the AP in Korean, per a translation fromForbes. “So I almost feel like you leave us no choice! But I will say there will indeed be a second season. It’s in my head right now. I’m in the planning process currently. But I do think it’s too early to say when and how that’s going to happen.”
“Gi-hun will come back, and he will do something for the world,” Hwang said.
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Squid Gamefollows a group of 456 people facing massive debts who willingly compete in a series of seemingly simple children’s games in an attempt to win a $40 million cash prize. The only catch is that if they lose, they die.
Within 17 days of being released, the gory thriller became Netflix’s biggest ever series at launch — beatingevenBridgerton— and the first to surpass 100 million viewers when it premiered, the streaming servicerevealedlast month.
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Hwang previously opened up toVarietyabout the difficult process of writing the show, and whether or not he would make a second season given the first one’s success.
“It took me six months to write and rewrite the first two episodes,” he said. “Then I consulted verbally with friends, and picked up clues for improvements through my own pitching and from their responses.”
He also said that he would approach a second season differently from the first.
“I don’t have well-developed plans forSquid Game 2,” Hwang said in September. “It is quite tiring just thinking about it. But if I were to do it, I would certainly not do it alone. I’d consider using a writers' room and would want multiple experienced directors.”
Season 1 ofSquid Gameis available to stream on Netflix.
source: people.com
