Squid Recreation’s Creator Affords a Few Tantalizing Season 3 Scraps

Squid Recreation season two hit Netflix December 26, and with a 3rd and last season arriving later this yr, it’s not a shock it ended on an agonizing cliffhanger. Whereas followers wait to see what’s forward for Seong Gi-hun—aka Participant 456, performed by Lee Jung-jae—and the other survivors, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is providing some fastidiously chosen phrases that’ll in all probability the one clues we will nibble at till extra episodes arrive.

Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Hwang allowed that Squid Recreation‘s last third will deal with the 2 characters you’d most count on: Gi-hun, in fact, in addition to Lee Byung-hun’s Front Man. The latter slithered his approach into the sport as Participant 001 and at occasions nearly appeared to be sympathetic to Gi-hun’s want to tear down the competitors as soon as and for all. Nevertheless, because the season two finale amply demonstrated, he’s not secretly a great man. He’s nonetheless a cold-blooded assassin, and he’s nonetheless sticking by his sinister priorities.

Or is he? Requested if there’s hope for the Entrance Man, all Hwang would say is “You possibly can see it in season three. There’s a solution to that query.”

Ending season two in such a bleak place—Gi-hun’s participant insurrection has been stomped out, and he nonetheless doesn’t know the Entrance Man’s been enjoying him all alongside—was a deliberate option to arrange season three. Gi-hun’s failures alongside the way in which lead as much as the devastating lack of his best buddy, Player 390. “I wished to finish the second season at that very second—then start the following season from that area the place he’s ridden with an enormous quantity of guilt and defeat,” Hwang mentioned. “I wished to see the place that might carry Gi-hun additional on.”

He continued. “The third season will actually discover that sense of loss and failure, that guilt weighing so closely on Gi-hun. How’s he going to navigate the story additional with all of that weighing down on him? Personally, I see the third season as being the finale to this story. That’s as a result of I imagine I’ve had closure to the story I wished to inform about society by the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever wished to return to the world of Squid Recreation, it will be about totally different characters with a unique story arc. Some form of spinoff, possibly.”

One character we gained’t be seeing once more (until there’s some form of prequel scenario) is Thanos, the villainous fan favourite performed by Choi Seung-hyun, also referred to as former Okay-pop star T.O.P. Hwang feels your ache, however he assured THR that Thanos gained’t be simply forgotten. “He’s one among my favourite characters, too! I imagine that was the fitting time to see him off … it was very intense, which was the fitting approach at simply the fitting time for him to go. The way in which he leaves the story, if you happen to watch till the third season, it should nearly really feel as if he’s nonetheless there in some methods when it comes to how he impacts the plot.”

Squid Recreation seasons one and two at the moment are on Netflix; season three is due someday in 2025.

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