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The second season of “Squid Game” arrives on Netflix on December 26, 2024, and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has apparently had enough of it all.
in one piece in Variety detailing the New York City pop-up “Squid Game: The Experience,” which apparently lets fans see what it’s like to play the deadly games seen in the TV series, which is a little confusing if that is considered, again. , people They die every time they lose a game on the show — Hwang seemed downright baffled by the massive success of the series, which has spawned “experiences,” video games and a poorly thought-out reality series called “Squid Game: The Challenge” (also on Netflix). “I had no intention of doing a second season, because the overall process of writing, producing and directing the series was very challenging. I didn’t think about doing another one,” Hwang told the outlet, referencing his previous claim that I Lost Teeth Because of It. stress of doing season 1.
That’s when Hwang In fact opened. “I’m so exhausted,” the creator confessed. “I’m so tired. In a way, I have to say, I’m so tired of ‘The Squid Game’. I’m so sick of my life doing something, promoting something. So I’m not thinking about my next project right now. I’m just thinking about going to some remote island and having my own free time without Netflix phone calls.” (“Not the island from ‘Squid Game,'” Hwang confirmed.)
Based on the surprising success of “The Squid Game,” whose first season premiered in late 2021 and became a legitimate sensation for Netflix, it is not entirely It’s surprising that the streamer wants as much “Squid Game” related content as possible. (For God’s sake, they’re still holding those poor “Stranger Things” kids hostage until that phenomenon comes to an end.) In October of this year it was announced that David Fincher, who previously worked on the crime drama “Mindhunter” for Netflix, will direct a new project set in the “Squid Game” universe, although there is still not much. information about the project. So will Hwang Dong-hyuk be involved in it? More or less!
“There are certain projects that are currently being done where they ask my opinion a little more actively,” Hwang told Variety. “As far as I know, in the future there will be even more creative projects coming from the ‘Squid Game’ universe, some of which I will be more involved in.”
The outlet also spoke to Minyoung Kim, head of Asia Pacific content at Netflix, who said the international success of “Squid Game” was a shock to the system. “We always expected ‘Squid Game’ to be one of the biggest shows in Korea and Asia,” Kim said (the show is set in South Korea and stars South Korean artists). “It took about 10 days for it to start blowing up in other places. The correct adjective that really describes it is ‘surreal.’ And Director Hwang was on the Internet all the time; he would capture everything on any kind of board he saw, to see how many countries would be number one. We were all obsessed with a lot of those metrics, until we finally realized, ‘Oh, this is the biggest show in the world.'”
Based on all this, it seems that Netflix love “Squid Game” runs forever, but the program does It has an end point and it will be here sooner than you think. In November, Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed that season 3 of “The Squid Game” will be the end of the series. “When I was thinking about the idea for the season 3 finale, I think it naturally occurred to me that this was the end,” he told the outlet. “I thought with that story I could tell everything I wanted to tell through the story of ‘The Squid Game’ and also in Gi-hun’s perspective as a character, and I thought we didn’t need any more stories from here.”
We still have season 2 on the horizon and, according to the show’s star Lee Jung-jae, who won an Emmy for playing the series’ protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, when do Watch the conclusion of the show, it will leave everyone speechless. “The ending is something you really can’t wait for,” Lee said in the aforementioned Variety article. “I’m looking forward to hearing what kind of interpretations viewers have.” Until then, you can rewatch “Squid Game” season 1, watch the reality TV competition (if you want, although I don’t recommend it), and stream the entire “Squid Game” season 2 on December 26, 2024.