Squid Sport’s Creator Gives a Few Tantalizing Season 3 Scraps

Squid Sport season two hit Netflix December 26, and with a 3rd and remaining 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 are able to nibble at till extra episodes arrive.

Chatting with the Hollywood Reporter, Hwang allowed that Squid Sport‘s remaining third will give attention to the 2 characters you’d most anticipate: Gi-hun, in fact, in addition to Lee Byung-hun’s Front Man. The latter slithered his manner into the sport as Participant 001 and at instances nearly gave the impression 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 superb 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 may see it in season three. There’s a solution to that query.”

Ending season two in such a bleak place—Gi-hun’s participant riot has been stomped out, and he nonetheless doesn’t know the Entrance Man’s been taking part in 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 needed to finish the second season at that very second—then start the following season from that house the place he’s ridden with an enormous quantity of guilt and defeat,” Hwang mentioned. “I needed 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 consider I’ve had closure to the story I needed to inform about society by the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever needed to return to the world of Squid Sport, it will be about totally different characters with a special story arc. Some type of spinoff, perhaps.”

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

Squid Sport seasons one and two are actually on Netflix; season three is due someday in 2025.

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