Squid Game season 3: what we all know to date in regards to the hit Netflix present’s return

Squid Game season 3 is coming in 2025 and its arrival will mark the tip of the tremendously unstable and thought-provoking Netflix present.

It is, in actual fact, the most effective Netflix collection accessible to observe on one of the best streaming service which broke Netflix information by bringing in 1.65 billion viewing hours for Squid Game season 1.

Squid Game invitations 456 gamers to compete for a mouth-watering 4.56 million received prize. To win? Compete in childhood video games. Sure, that sounds easy sufficient, till the gamers be taught in regards to the lethal penalties. Player 456, Gi-hun, received the massive prize pot in season 1, however he was additionally the one participant to go away with their life. So, he returned to play once more in Squid Game season 2 to actual revenge by teaming up with fellow gamers – although we all know how that turned out…

Season 3 was all the time on the playing cards – approach earlier than season 2 even got here out – and so the solid and crew shot back-to-back, therefore the 2025 launch date. We’re glad we do not have to attend for much longer to see how the occasions of the season 2 finale unfold, however a wait is a wait regardless.

So, whereas we ponder the subsequent transfer, there’s a lot to find out about Squid Game season 3 from launch date, to anticipated solid, to plot synopsis information and rumors, and extra.

Full spoilers for Squid Game seasons 1 and a couple of to observe.

Squid Game season 3: is there a launch date?

While viewers needed to wait over three years for Squid Game season 2, the look forward to season 3 is not almost as lengthy. In truth, it’s been confirmed to hit Netflix in 2025. Given that season 2 got here out in December 2024, that is a wait of lower than a 12 months – we hope.

Thanks to a 2025 Golden Globes pink carpet interview in January, Squid Game director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed to The Hollywood Reporter: “It’s coming. It’s coming. I’m engaged on it, so it’s coming quickly. Sooner than you count on.”

Plus, as reported by Forbes, the Netflix Korea YouTube channel “had a video go dwell that didn’t simply have the 2025 launch date, however a particular date, June 27, 2025.” While it was shortly eliminated, it didn’t go unnoticed, although there’s been no official affirmation from Netflix.

If we have been to invest then, we’d say that with Dong-hyuk’s phrases in thoughts and contemplating season 2 got here out in late 2024, we’d guess a late summer time 2025 launch date for season 3.

Squid Game season 3: has Netflix launched a trailer?

There’s no trailer for Squid Game season 3 proper now. When there may be, we’ll make sure to replace you right here. Given that the season 2 trailer launched a month earlier than the present dropped on Netflix, we all know it will not be till later this 12 months.

Squid Game season 3: who can we count on to return for the solid?

Spoilers observe for Squid Game season 2.

While there’s no official information of the Squid Game season 3 solid, now we have a reasonably good thought of who’s returning – though you by no means fairly understand how lengthy any given character will survive. Here’s who we count on to return for Squid Game season 3:

• Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun
• Lee Byung-hun as Hwang In-ho aka Front Man
• Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho
• Kang Ha-neul as Dae-ho
• Jo Yu-ri as Kim Jun-hee
• Park Sung-hoon as Hyun-ju
• Park Gyu-young as No-eul
• Lee David as Min-su
• Chae Kook-hee as Seon-nyeo
• Kang Ae-sim as Jang Geum-ja
• Im Si-wan as Lee Myung-gi
• Yang Dong-geun as Park Yong-sik
• Im Si-wan as Lee Myung-gi
• Oh Dal-su as Captain Park
• Roh Jae-won as Nam-gyu

Squid Game season 3: what can we speculate to date in regards to the story?

Full spoilers observe for Squid Game seasons 1 and a couple of.

Squid Game season 2 actually left lots on the desk to choose up in season 3, and contemplating they filmed each seasons back-to-back, we think about we’ll decide up proper the place we left off. So, the place was that? Gi-hun was planning a coup to achieve the folks in cost on the high to finish the video games as soon as and for all. Unfortunately, what he wasn’t conscious of, is that Player 001 was in actual fact Front Man, who after becoming a member of him within the video games up till the pivotal second of his plan, returned to his place of management.

And then, he murdered Gi-hun’s pal, Jung-bae, proper in entrance of him. All with out him realizing his true id. As he reeled on the staircase mere moments away from the management room, season 2 ended and so did Gi-hun’s dream of freedom, it appears. But let’s not neglect Jun-ho, Front Man’s brother and police officer who spent season 2 hellbent on discovering the island and proving its existence to your entire world. And, we presume, exacting justice on his brother’s lethal video games.

In a present stuffed with unlucky moments although, it’s no shock that Jun-ho’s mission to search out the island hasn’t been simple. In season 2 it seems that the fisherman that saved him from the seas in season 1 and is again to assist him together with his search has an ulterior motive. While he seems to be serving to Jun-ho discover the island, one evening we see him tampering with the drone that they’re utilizing to look the skies. And, upon being found, stabs and throws one in every of Jun-ho’s crew overboard, undetected. A narrative thread that almost all actually wants investigating.

If you watched by means of the credit, you should have additionally seen the teaser (above) that includes the enormous robotic from Red Light, Green Light – Young-hee – and her robotic boyfriend, launched on Twitter/X as Chul-su. It provides: “Squid Game 3 coming 2025,” as if to counsel Chul-su will star as a brand new robotic in a wholly new sport. The larger tease right here although is that there’s extra video games to be performed, which has been one of many greatest allures of Squid Game. It’s within the identify, in spite of everything.

It seems that season 3 is most undoubtedly a continuation of season 2. Speaking to MSN, director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed the rationale behind splitting season 2 in half, fairly than beginning a brand new video games: “…as I wrote the story alongside, it grew to become to be too many episodes and too lengthy of a narrative since you see Gi-hun’s journey the place he returns to the sport, but additionally he goes by means of a revolt, and that’s really the climax of that storyline, the place he tries to create an rebellion, however then that each one goes to failure. And I additionally noticed that facet of it as yet one more sport as effectively, and so I believed that we might divide it into two seasons to have that…”

He added: “And to place a cease there, I believed that might simply be the precise satisfactory second to relaxation and have it proceed on within the additional season as a result of after Gi-hun experiences that occasion, primarily based on the failure, in addition to that immense sense of guilt, you are going to get yet one more character arc from Gi-hun.”

Viewers have watched as Gi-hun reigned victorious in season 1 and returned filled with vigor and fueled by revenge in season 2. But, by the tip, he was left totally depleted by his failed plan and lack of his pal. Hwang Dong-hyuk’s give attention to Gi-hun going into season 3 ridden with guilt and failure appears to be the point of interest. Though we’re additionally anticipating extra video games and resolve (or demise).

Seo-hwan, who performed Gi-hun’s pal Jung-bae in season 2, revealed to RadioTimes.com the place he feels season 3 will take Gi-hun subsequent. But, he stipulates: “I do know nothing about season 3, however as a viewer and a fan myself, I believe there might be three potentialities.”

Expanding on these potentialities, he stated: “One can be Gi-hun dropping all hope, and the second, him changing into much more vengeful. But the third risk can be him changing into vengeful in direction of the gamers, not the folks behind the sport.”

While Jung-bae won’t know the season 3 plot, returning participant Jo Yu-ri, who performs Jun-hee (Player 222) advised Cinema Today: “It looks like lots of people have been predicting the contents of season 3, but it surely looks like not lots of them have gotten it proper as I believed. A really unimaginably brutal and merciless story awaits, so please look ahead to it.”

Will Squid Game return after season 3?

No, season 3 has been confirmed as Squid Game’s ultimate season. But, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has shared his future plans for a Squid Game franchise with The Hollywood Reporter: “One of the concepts I’m tossing round is what occurred between season one and two. There’s a three-year hole. So, for instance, what was the Front Man doing throughout these three years?” stated Hwang. “What was the Recruiter doing? When I’ve some downtime, I like to simply toss some concepts round and go wild with my creativeness. So I assume we might be open to something.”

And, again in 2022, Deadline reported that Dong-hyuk additionally had a satirical collection primarily based on the creation of Netflix’s Squid Game in early improvement. At time of writing, it was rumored to be known as The Best Show on the Planet.

If you are craving extra from Squid Game, the franchise has already expanded with Squid Game: The Challenge, a real-world adaptation of the present, which debuted in November 2023 and was subsequently renewed for a second season. Casting of which is now closed, although a launch date remains to be unknown.

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