Squid Game season 2: key data
– Release date confirmed for late December
– First official trailer debuted in early November
– Other teasers launched in February, August, and September
– Seong Gi-hun, Front Man, The Recruiter, and Hwang Jun-ho coming back from season 1
– Brand new characters set to function
– Official story synopsis revealed
– In-development third season can be major present’s remaining chapter
– Other spin-offs within the works
Squid Game season 2 is closing in on its Netflix debut – and I’m as excited as you’re for the streamer’s most-watched TV Original to make its lengthy awaited return. Indeed, with lower than two months left till Squid Game‘s subsequent chapter arrives, followers are determined to see what lies in retailer for Gi-hun this time round.
Thankfully, the latest launch of Squid Game 2‘s first official trailer has given us a a lot clearer concept of his quest to deliver the titular, life-threatening video games to an finish. You’ll must learn on to observe it, however I can assure you may study a lot extra about top-of-the-line Netflix exhibits’ second installment for those who do. From its launch date and forged checklist, to its story temporary and the survival drama sequence’ future, there’s heaps to compensate for earlier than Squid Game returns on the very best streaming service.
Full spoilers observe for Squid Game season 1. Potential season 2 spoilers are additionally mentioned, so proceed with warning.
Squid Game season 2 launch date
It’s virtually time to drag you again in. Squid Game Season 2 particular teaser TOMORROW. #GeekedWeek pic.twitter.com/L3UIubfO6ESeptember 18, 2024
In August, Squid Game season 2 was confirmed to launch on Netflix in time for the festive season. It’ll arrive on Thursday, December 26 worldwide, for these questioning. Before then, Netflix had solely revealed Squid Game season 2 was a part of its 2024 launch schedule.
There’s no phrase on whether or not season 2 can be launched in full but. Many of Netflix’s TV Originals have been launched in two elements in latest occasions, together with the most recent seasons of Stranger Things, Bridgerton, The Witcher, and Cobra Kai. Squid Game‘s sophomore season, then, might observe go well with, however I’d be stunned if it does. Indeed, with final season launching in full in late 2021, I totally count on all eight episodes of its sequel season to be launched on December 26.
Squid Game season 2 trailer
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Netflix lastly launched an official trailer for Squid Game season 2 on November 1, and it revealed an enormous plot twist that I can not look ahead to within the wildly well-liked Netflix present’s subsequent chapter.
Before then, the streaming titan had solely drip fed us clips and different teasers forward of season 2’s extremely anticipated debut – the latest of these, which arrived in early October, was a trendy albeit type trailer that teased the return of a fan-favorite character.
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A number of weeks earlier, the closest factor now we have to an official trailer was a 60-second teaser unveiled throughout Netflix Geeked Week 2024. At least this video, which you’ll be able to see beneath, confirmed some extra massive plot particulars in regards to the hit Netflix present’s return.
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Before that mid-September reveal, the one different footage got here through a season 2 launch date announcement teaser (see beneath), which supplied little in the best way of particulars in regards to the forthcoming chapter’s story, and a short first clip of Squid Game season 2, which confirmed Gi-hun on a John Wick-style quest for revenge.
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Squid Game season 2 forged: confirmed and rumored
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Here’s the confirmed forged for Squid Game season 2 thus far:
- Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun
- Lee Byung-hun as Front Man
- Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho
- Gong Yoo as The Recruiter
- Yim Si-wan as TBC
- Kang Ha-neul as TBC
- Park Gyu-young as TBC
- Lee Jin-uk as TBC
- Park Sung-hoon as TBC
- Yang Dong-geun as TBC
- Kang Ae-sim as TBC
- Lee David as TBC
- Choi Seung-hyun as TBC
- Roh Jae-won as TBC
- Jo Yu-ri as TBC
- Won Ji-an as TBC
The first 4 actors apart, everybody else will play lots of season 2’s new sport contestants. Their character identities have not been revealed but, nonetheless, so I’m none the smart about who they’re portraying.
I do not count on any deceased season 1 characters come again from the useless, however Jung-Jae has shared his personal wild concept for Squid Game season 2. Speaking after successful Best Actor on the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards, he revealed (per Entertainment Tonight) that he hopes, unlikely although it’s, to see fan-favorite characters like Sae-byeok and Ali return in new episodes, saying: “My concept is that perhaps the masked males took all of [the dead characters away] and made positive they got here again to life.”
Interestingly, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has spoken of his want to see US actors make shock appearances in future seasons. Speaking to Variety, Hwang confirmed he wished to see Hollywood stars present up, corresponding to Leonardo DiCaprio, though that will not occur this season.
Squid Game season 2 story synopsis and rumors
Full spoilers observe for Squid Game season 1. Possible season 2 spoilers are additionally mentioned.
Here’s Squid Game season 2’s plot synopsis: “Three years after successful Squid Game, Player 456 [Seong Gi-hun] stays decided to search out the individuals behind the sport and put an finish to their vicious sport. Using 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. But 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.”
A newer Netflix press launch has additionally shed new mild on extra about season 2’s story. “Player 456 gave up going to the States and comes again with a brand new decision in his thoughts. Gi-hun as soon as once more dives into the mysterious survival sport, beginning one other life-or-death sport with new contributors gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion gained. With a hardened demeanor and the scars of previous video games, Gi-hun is on a determined mission to reveal the lethal fact of the competitors. Yet, his warnings go unheeded, and tensions rise as fellow gamers query his intentions.”
A brand new life-threatening spherical of the well-known, fictional gameshow, then, is on the playing cards. That’s regardless of Gi-hun’s clear reluctance to participate as soon as extra, given what occurred to him and his fellow contestants final time round. However, if he desires to hunt revenge on Front Man and firm – learn extra particulars about why in our Squid Game season 1 ending defined article – he has no selection however to take part once more.
To me, it initially didn’t make sense for Gi-hun to return and participate within the deadly video games as soon as extra. Foregoing this a part of the narrative, although, would’ve eradicated a lot of what makes Squid Game so entertaining: the video games themselves. Hwang himself additionally revealed (through Vanity Fair in June 2022), that season 2 will certainly function extra of the present’s famously perilous and grotesque puzzles, which confirmed Gi-hun would stage a dramatic return to the distant facility.
So, what of the video games themselves? Hwang says (per the aforementioned Vanity Fair piece) that followers will “be launched to Young-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su” – a reference to the sequence’ now-iconic murderous robotic doll – in season 2. Cheol-su, it appears, is a male companion of Young-hee – and one we count on to be equally terrifying.
Young-hee can be again to rack up her kill rely in iconic sport ‘Red Light, Green Light’, as evidenced by her season 2 trailer look, too. Young-hee was liable for 255 fatalities in season 1, making ‘Red Light, Green Light’ the deadliest sport featured in its 9 episodes. Expect her to take extra lives this season, then.
Cheol-su’s debut however, we additionally know there will be one different new sport within the present’s sophomore outing – besides it is not a conventional sport. Indeed, as season 2’s official trailer reveals, on the finish of each spherical, the remaining contenders will forged votes on whether or not to proceed enjoying. If the bulk agrees with stroll away, they’re going to apparently obtain a share of the cash they’ve gathered thus far. If, although, the bulk vote to hold on enjoying, they’ll add extra cash to the prize pool – nicely, offering they survive no matter trials come subsequent. Clearly, it appears many will latter the favor, regardless of Gi-hun’s pleas for them to vote for the previous.
Other attainable Squid Game season 2 storylines embrace analyzing the destiny of Hwang Jun-ho, the undercover cop who discovers Front Man to be In-ho, aka his brother. Although he was shot and subsequently fell off the sting of a cliff, Wi Ha-joon, who performs Jun-ho, is a part of the season 2 forged, so he clearly survived the encounter. Considering we nonetheless don’t know In-ho’s motivation for turning into the sport’s Front Man, this appears one other subplot that’ll be explored. Hwang has proven an curiosity in growing this thread, too, telling THR: “I’d prefer to discover that storyline – what’s going on between these two brothers?”
Hwang additionally hinted at the potential for following the mysterious Recruiter in additional element, telling THR: “I might additionally go into the story of that Recruiter within the go well with who performs the sport of ddakji with Gi-hun and offers him the cardboard within the first episode”. With The Recruiter can also be confirmed to return, season 2 ought to embrace this specific subplot.
As for what else we might see: the remaining is a thriller. There are quite a few instructions – ones we have talked about above or in any other case – that Squid Game season 2 might go in, and we suspect no matter unfolds can be as gripping as its forebear. Here’s hoping that is the case, anyway, and the sequence’ second installment would not disappointingly undergo the motions.
Will Squid Game season 2 mark the tip of the hit Netflix present?
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Squid Game season 2 will not be the present’s final installment, however its follow-up season can be. Confirmed in a Netflix press launch and an open letter from Hwang, the primary sequence’ third season will wrap up Gi-hun’s story in 2025.
Pleasingly, that will not be the tip of the franchise. In June, it was reported that movie auteur David Fincher had halted labored on his Chinatown TV remake in favor of pursuing an English language reinterpretation of Squid Game. It’s unclear if the latter can be a film or a TV present.
Then there’s Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix’s well-liked actuality spin-off based mostly on the fictional sequence. The controversy-laced present, which follows the identical guidelines because the fictional present minus the precise dying, proved to be well-liked with viewers following its November 2023 launch. Unsurprisingly, then, a second season is already in growth.
Lastly on the ‘confirmed initiatives’ entrance, a satire-based sequence – based mostly on Squid Game‘s success – titled ‘The Best Show on the Planet‘ can also be getting made (per Deadline). Fans can be happy to listen to that Hwang is crafting this present, too.
What’s extra, on condition that Netflix boss Ted Sarandos has spoken of a “Squid Game universe” when he introduced the present’s season 2 renewal, there are seemingly different spin-offs which have mentioned within the corridors of energy. How lots of them will see the sunshine of day? We aren’t positive, however let’s simply hope it is not delivered within the type of one among Squid Game‘s chill-inducing invitation playing cards.
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