Squid Game: The Challenge may have been controversial—however it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there’s excellent news for each the streamer and followers who’d a lot quite have the actual deal than the truth competitors spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will lastly return this yr.
Netflix has been teasing Squid Sport season two since summer 2022, however it felt like an inevitability given the series’ stratospheric popularity after its September 2021 debut. Deadline reports {that a} newly launched letter to Netflix buyers—who’ve simply as a lot of an curiosity in Squid Sport season two as followers do, if no more, contemplating the primary season’s standing as Netflix’s most-watched sequence of all time—introduced that “regardless of final yr’s strikes pushing again the launch of some titles, we’ve got an enormous, daring slate for 2024.” That slate consists of extra Squid Sport.
No particular date was given for season two’s premiere—Deadline notes it “will begin manufacturing later this yr”—however the returning forged consists of Lee Byung-hun (final season’s important character, Seong Gi-hun), Wi Ha-jun (who performs Hwang Jun-ho, the undercover cop), and Gong Yoo (the Squid Sport contestant recruiter). There will even be a major variety of new forged members—not shocking contemplating most of season one’s characters had been, uh, brutally killed—and Hwang Dong-hyuk will likely be again as director and exec producer.
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