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

Squid Sport season two hit Netflix December 26, and with a 3rd and last season arriving later this 12 months, 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 rigorously chosen phrases that’ll in all probability the one clues we are able to nibble at till extra episodes arrive.

Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Hwang allowed that Squid Sport‘s last third will deal with the 2 characters you’d most count on: Gi-hun, after all, in addition to Lee Byung-hun’s Front Man. The latter slithered his manner into the sport as Participant 001 and at occasions nearly gave the impression to be sympathetic to Gi-hun’s need to tear down the competitors as soon as and for all. Nonetheless, 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’ll be able to see it in season three. There’s a solution to that query.”

Ending season two in such a bleak place—Gi-hun’s participant rise up 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 may 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 means of the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever needed to return to the world of Squid Sport, it might be about completely different characters with a unique story arc. Some form of spinoff, possibly.”

One character we gained’t be seeing once more (except there’s some form of prequel state of affairs) is Thanos, the villainous fan favourite performed by Choi Seung-hyun, also referred to as former Ok-pop star T.O.P. Hwang feels your ache, however he assured THR that Thanos gained’t be simply forgotten. “He’s certainly one of my favourite characters, too! I consider that was the proper time to see him off … it was very intense, which was the proper manner at simply the proper time for him to go. The way in which he leaves the story, when you watch till the third season, it is 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 at the moment are on Netflix; season three is due someday in 2025.

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