‘The Squid Game’, season 2: release date, synopsis, cast and everything we know

“You leave us no choice!” Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed with these words that the second season of ‘The game of the squid’ is a reality. “There’s been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season… So I almost feel like you’re leaving us no choice! But I will say that there will actually be a second season. It’s in my head right now. I’m currently in the planning process. But I think it’s too early to say when and how it will happen. So I promise you this…”

Therefore Seon Gi-hun and company will return in a new season among the Netflix series, perhaps with the ambition of sneaking back among the most watched Netflix series in its history and wanting to dominate the serial conversation, but… When will the release date be? What will the new episodes be about? What other characters will return? This is all we know for the moment about ‘The Squid Game’ season 2, and we will update this article when we receive more information. Stay tuned!

‘The game of the squid’, season 2: release date

According to its creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, we should not wait for the new season before the end of 2023, or even throughout 2024. The series will return to Netflix and there is even talk of a third season of ‘The Squid Game’, but the script for the second is only a draft at the moment, so we will have to be patient.

Of course, on February 26, 2023, Netflix Spain began to shake Twitter with the already known teaser poster for the second seasonbut now accompanied by the frustrating “Soon”:

‘The game of the squid’, season 2: synopsis

Hwang Dong-hyuk added: “Gi-hun will come back and do something for the world“Something that was to be expected given the open ending of the first season, in which the protagonist did not get on the plane that was going to take him with his daughter when he had new news from the creators of the famous game at that time. .

In a new interview published in Vanity Fair, the creator stated that he only has 3 pages of ideas that he plans to be the central plot of the new script. But it hasn’t started yet, so the process will be long.

“Humanity will be tested through those games once again.Hwang said of the series’ return. The idea of ​​players being able to band together to survive the games as a group is a concept that the writer-director left open for viewer interpretation during the first season. But in the series’ next batch of episodes, Hwang wants to explore it: “I want to ask the question: ‘Is true solidarity between humans possible?’“.

In a previous interview with The Hollywood ReporterHwang shared some thoughts on “some other storylines in the series that haven’t been addressed” in the first season.

“For example, the story of the policeman and that of his brother, the figurehead. If I end up creating the second season, I would like to explore that story: what is going on between those two brothers?” he said.And then I might as well go into the story of that suit-wearing recruiter who plays ddakji’s game with Gi-hun and gives him the card in the first episode.”.

“And of course we could continue Gi-hun’s story, and explore more about how he will navigate through his reckoning with the people who are designing the games,” he added. “But I don’t know yet, I’ll just say that there are many possibilities for the stories of the second season”.

‘The Squid Game’, season 2: cast

In another recent interview, Hwang stated that two characters will return for sure: “Gi-hun for sure. He will return, and I think the leader will return too”. Easy.

The one (Gi-hun, Park Hae Soo) is the sole survivor of the Squid Trials, who at the end of the first season refused to go to the US to reunite with his daughter, moved by a greater purpose: to end the games he won. The other, the leader (Lee Byung-hun under the mask), personally supervised the 456 penniless gamblers who died in the last dismal Olympics.

In mid-March, the creator dropped a female name: that of hoyeon jungwho played Kang Sae-byeok, the late player 067. Hwang said that she might come back as her twin sister.

Although the twin sister theory excites us, there are some fans who directly they believe that player 067 could have escaped from that coffin before the fire consumed her, which would imply that she herself might be alive right now.

Another character that could return is that of the policeman, Hwang Jun-howho fell into the sea after being shot by his brother, but his body was never found.

“While writing the first season, I thought about the stories that could be in the second season; one would be the story of the leader and the detective. I think the problem with police officers is not just a problem in Korea. I see on the world news that the police force can take a long time to act on things: there are more victims or the situation is getting worse because they are not acting fast enough. This was a topic she wanted to raise. Maybe in season two I can talk more about this.”