Squid Game: The Challenge may have been controversial—nevertheless it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there’s excellent news for each the streamer and followers who’d a lot moderately have the true deal than the fact competitors spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will lastly return this yr.
Netflix has been teasing Squid Recreation season two since summer 2022, nevertheless 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 Recreation season two as followers do, if no more, contemplating the primary season’s standing as Netflix’s most-watched collection of all time—introduced that “regardless of final yr’s strikes pushing again the launch of some titles, now we have a giant, daring slate for 2024.” That slate consists of extra Squid Recreation.
No particular date was given for season two’s premiere—Deadline notes it “will begin manufacturing later this yr”—however the returning solid consists of Lee Byung-hun (final season’s fundamental character, Seong Gi-hun), Wi Ha-jun (who performs Hwang Jun-ho, the undercover cop), and Gong Yoo (the Squid Recreation contestant recruiter). There will even be a big variety of new solid members—not shocking contemplating most of season one’s characters have been, uh, brutally killed—and Hwang Dong-hyuk shall be again as director and exec producer.
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