Squid Game’s second season has a brand new trailer, and if you have not watched the primary then do your self a favour and keep away from spoiling it. Netflix’s biggest-ever launch and a worldwide smash hit, Squid Game adopted 456 indebted rivals participating in a collection of lethal childrens’ video games for enormous money prizes, all noticed and managed by a shadowy cabal of, mainly, wealthy sadists.
The first season ended with the victory of participant 456 Seong Gi-hun, performed by Lee Jung-jae, who walks away with an enormous money prize that ought to remedy all his life points: however he is so traumatised by what he is skilled he vows revenge. Squid Game 2 is ready three years after the primary collection and sees Gi-hun return to the video games alongside new rivals, with the trailer specializing in how rivals can vote after every recreation to finish the occasions or proceed for larger prizes: Gi-hun is desperately making an attempt to assist his fellow gamers and make them perceive the character of the video games, however not totally efficiently.
We see the acquainted masked guards and the primary recreation, a repeat of season one: Red Light Green Light. A large doll stands on the finish of an enviornment, dealing with backwards, and rivals should advance in direction of it: But cease when the doll turns. We see Gi-hun making an attempt to inform gamers how this works, earlier than a lady panics due to a bee, and is promptly shot by the pinnacle. We subsequently see Gi-hun inform the rivals he is been right here earlier than and so they need to get out, however some do not consider him, some assume he is a plant, and others merely stay targeted on the massive suspended piggy financial institution of money.
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In Season 2 Gi-hun, who survived Season 1, returns to the video games, to not win this time round, however to place an finish to those video games,” Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game’s author, director and producer, informed Reuters. “There goes to be a bigger variety of characters this time and extra intriguing video games which are all worthy of a number of the viewers’ love and help.”
“Gi-hun is a really totally different particular person in Season 2,” stated actor Lee Jung-jae. “This time round he needs revenge. He needs to catch the individuals behind the video games and he needs to deliver them to justice.”
Hwang was additionally requested about a current Deadline report, which stated that David Fincher is presently engaged on an English-language model of Squid Game.
“I do not assume it is official but, so I can’t inform a lot about it,” stated Hwang, basically confirming the information. “But, , I respect him as a filmmaker and creator. So if he does it, , I’m wanting ahead to seeing it, watching it.”
This does make huge sense: Netflix is acutely acutely aware of maximising its returns on Squid Game, notably within the context of streaming competitor Amazon and MrBeast basically stealing the concept for the upcoming Beast Games. The streaming large has such an enormous subscriber base already that it wants to point out it has the capability to supply common smash hits that may retain and even develop its viewers amid fierce competitors: Netflix stated that Squid Game season 1 was watched for 1.65 billion hours in its first 4 weeks of launch.
The second collection of Squid Game will launch on Netflix on 26 December 2024. The season two promotional occasion additionally noticed the platform announce that the third and remaining season of Squid Game will arrive in 2025.
