The pressure is skyrocketing around Netflix. Thanks to its 1.65 billion views, record that has allowed it to surpass any other success distributed by the platform in recent years, from The House of Paper to Bridgerton, Squid Game is preparing to return with a second season which, right now, seems very riskygiven the high possibility of disappointing expectations and setting up a plot not up to the level of the first season which, we recall, was conceived as a finished product, without opening the way to possible new stories.
When money is involved, however, platforms can be very persuasive, to the point of convincing the director, creator, screenwriter and producer of Squid Game Hwang Dong-hyuk to consider the idea of ​​a new cycle of episodes. “It took twelve years to bring the first season of Squid Gamebut it took twelve days to make it the most popular series ever “, Dong-hyuk had said, enjoying worldwide success, without hiding the pressure on his shoulders since he gave the green light to Squid Game 2officially announced by Netflix through a teaser that features Young-hee, the creepy giant doll of the game One, two, three star of the first season, make it known to the public that the season is developing.
From the first information, it seems that the season could see the light in 2023 or even in 2024, precisely because of the desire to take the right time to make it happen so that the fans will not be disappointed. “There is a lot of pressure to be able to make a sequel that is even better than the first season”executive producer Kim Ji-yeon admitted. “I know audiences and fans alike enjoyed watching Season 1, but we’re really focusing on making Season 2 even more fun for audiences around the world.” For the moment we know nothing, except that some faces of the former will return to the cast Squid Gameas the protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the leader of the soldiers dressed in red Front Man (Lee Byung-hun). At the moment the only certainty of Squid Game 2 is that we will meet Cheol-su, the boyfriend of the killer doll Young-Hee. “Maybe they’ll have a romantic duet before casting that deadly stare,” they joke from Netflix.
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