Squid Sport director Hwang Dong-hyuk just lately dished some extra particulars concerning the second season of the Display Actors Guild (SAG) award-winning Netflix Ok-drama, together with the doable return of a key solid member whose character had been killed off in Season 1.
In an interview on the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards ceremony on Saturday, chatting with Deadline on the crimson carpet, the director revealed: "There shall be extra nice video games, that is all I can say.
"I am simply nonetheless brainstorming and gathering the concepts for Season 2. I have never even began with the writing but," he added.
The dramatic finale of the gripping collection a couple of lethal survival competitors noticed an enraged Gi-hun (contestant no. 456, performed by SAG and Critics Alternative Award winner Lee Jung-jae)—who was about to board a flight to see his daughter—working out of a jetway following a cryptic cellphone name with the supervisor of the competition.
Hwang beforehand promised that "Gi-hun will come again, he'll do one thing for the world" in an interview with the Related Press in November, 2021 and in late December that very same 12 months, he revealed that "the story of the individuals Gi-hun meets and chases after would be the large plot for Season 2," in keeping with South Korea's Edaily.
However what concerning the different characters? The top of Season 1 left a path of a number of burning questions and loads of roads to discover when it comes to plot strains. However may these avenues additionally embrace a return of solid members whose characters died within the first season?
Right here we unpack which different characters may return within the extremely anticipated Squid Sport Season 2.
Which Squid Sport Season 1 Characters May Return For Season 2?
Participant No. 067
Through the crimson carpet interview with Deadline on the PGA Awards, requested whether or not viewers may anticipate to see some characters from Season 1 return in Season 2, Hwang laughed and stated: "No, as a result of most of them are useless," however hinted, "I will strive one thing to carry them again to Season 2."
Maybe contestant no. 067 (performed by SAG award winner HoYeon Jung), whose title Sae-byeok interprets to "daybreak" in Korean, may see a brand new daybreak within the second season.
Gesturing towards Jung beside him on the crimson carpet, the Squid Sport director stated: "To illustrate possibly she has a twin sister, you may see."
Jung then responded: "I may change my hair shade. Let's perform a little, like, cosmetic surgery."
Participant No. 067's Brother
Through the Marbles sport spherical of the competitors, when participant no. 240 (performed by Lee Yoo-mi, who additionally stars within the Netflix hit Ok-drama All of Us Are Useless) requested Sae-byeok what she'd do with the prize cash if she have been to win the competition, she revealed her dream can be to purchase a home to dwell in along with her youthful brother, retrieve her mom from North Korea and go to Jeju Island, South Korea's idyllic vacationer vacation spot.
Sae-byeok's youthful brother was seen in an earlier episode when she visited him on the kids's dwelling after the gamers have been free to depart the sport facility following a vote to finish the competition. May her brother return in Season 2 seeking solutions to what occurred to his sister years later? And probably go on a quest for revenge if the reality concerning the contest is revealed?
The Detective
The top of Season 1 noticed detective Jun-ho (performed by Wi Ha-jun) be chased down by the guards and the Entrance Man character (performed by Lee Byung-hun). The policeman had infiltrated the sport facility disguised as a workers member seeking his brother (revealed to be the Entrance Man) who had gone lacking.
After his cowl was blown, Jun-ho's remaining look within the present noticed him be shot by his brother, which resulted in him falling over a cliff, presumably plunging to his demise. However may the detective nonetheless be alive?
Chatting with Newsweek in October in his first interview with a significant U.S. publication, Wi stated he did not rule out the return of his character in a second season.
"I imagine the detective was not fatally wounded," since he was shot within the arm. Nonetheless, Wi added, "I am nonetheless probably not positive" whether or not Jun-ho is alive.
Wi additionally stated it is "extremely doubtless" that every one the footage the detective gathered concerning the sport facility, which he tried to ship to his superior through his cellphone whereas working from the sport workers members, had not made it by because of the weak cell reception.
If the detective is certainly nonetheless alive, may Season 2 see him return dwelling and recruit different policemen to take down the sport facility? Or will he stay disguised as a staffer and ultimately be part of forces with Gi-hun to place an finish to the lethal competitors?
The Entrance Man
A number of mysteries stay across the Entrance Man, together with why he determined to supervise the competitors after successful the competition himself years earlier.
In an interview again in October with CNN, Hwang revealed he wished to discover "the unexplained previous" of the Entrance Man, along with the story of the policeman, in subsequent episodes.
Wi additionally informed Newsweek he'd like to see the "numerous questions across the story of Jun-ho and the Entrance Man be answered" in a second season, together with "why he needed to level the gun at his youthful brother."
The Outdated Man
The Outdated Man (performed by Golden Globe winner O Yeong-su, additionally spelled Oh Younger-soo)—who participated within the sport however was later revealed to be the mastermind behind the competitors—was portrayed to have died in a hospital mattress within the finale, with the Entrance Man overlooking his deathbed. However just like how the Outdated Man's demise was solely implied through the Marbles spherical of the competition, may he one way or the other nonetheless be alive and reappear in Season 2?
The Salesman
The Squid Sport director beforehand revealed that he hopes to unravel the story behind the Salesman—an enigmatic character performed by famed Korean actor Gong Yoo (seen just lately in Netflix's The Silent Sea in addition to in numerous hit Korean movies).
The Salesman, who recruited the contestants through a sport of ddakji (a conventional Korean childhood sport performed with squares of folded paper) seems on the very begin and finish of Season 1. He's final noticed within the finale by Gi-hun who sees him recruiting one other participant on a prepare platform, in the identical manner he himself was recruited within the first episode.
Aside from his look within the first and final episodes, the Salesman's backstory stays a thriller, together with how and why he turned concerned within the competitors and whether or not he is conscious of its lethal penalties. Or may the Salesman (and never the Outdated Man) be the true mastermind behind the competition?
Gamers Who Did not Return to the Video games
Following the shock of the primary spherical of the competition (Purple Mild, Inexperienced Mild), as talked about earlier the contestants have been free to go following a vote for the competitors to stop.
Whereas the vast majority of the gamers returned to the competition, there have been some who selected to not return. Now realizing what goes on behind the video games' closed doorways, may these former contestants play a job in Season 2 in revealing the reality concerning the lethal competitors to the remainder of the world and finally assist put an finish to it? Hopefully this—and several other different mysteries—shall be uncovered within the subsequent season of Squid Sport.
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