Squid Game 2: The Second Season Is Now Official Hwang Dong-hyuk Confirmed Sequel

Even Hwang Dong-hyuk admitted it: the second season of Squid Game was inevitable. The success of Netflix’s South Korean series has been incredible and the American streaming service will have gone to great lengths to convince the show’s creator to start working on the new episodes.

To announce the official status of Squid Game 2 was Hwang Dong-hyuk. In an interview with the Deadline website the screenwriter and director spoke of “having to do homework”, like when a teacher leaves his pupil the work to do at home. Evidently the role of the professor was worn by Netflix which, it is thought, has shelled out a large sum to convince Dong-hyuk to immediately return to work on the screenplay of Squid Game 2. The director, moreover, had declared not long ago that he wanted to devote himself to other things and wanting to take a break from Squid Game, which for him was one of the most difficult jobs ever done.

COMEBACK SQUID: Hwang Dong-hyuk, the director, creator, writer of #SquidGame says the show will be back with more Gi-hun adventures. pic.twitter.com/uqC1DIdZqy

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In all likelihood, the director – as he himself had announced – will hire a group of professional screenwriters to write the script for the second season of Squid Game and therefore will no longer work alone on the writing process. After all, he himself had stated that it took several years to make the first season of Squid Game. Now that the first season has had a global success, Netflix certainly cannot make its fans wait too long: it is therefore possible that the new episodes may be available in 2023.

What Will Be The Plot of Squid Game 2?

Squid Game 2 will not be – as predicted – a prequel to Front Man, although in all likelihood this character’s past could be addressed and explained. It was the director who anticipated his idea:

Gi-hun will be making his return as the protagonist and that is very indicative as it should be pretty clear that Squid Game 2 will not repeat the same narrative as the first season: there should be no games. Gi-hun may have decided to end the Squid Games but what will his plan be? Who will he have to contend with? But above all, what does the director mean when he says that Gi-hun will do one thing for the world? With this premise, could the series also take place outside Korea?

It will be interesting to find out how Hwang Dong-hyuk has thought of structuring the second season and above all by which genre it will be inspired: will it be a story of revenge? Will it be more action-based or drama-based like the first few episodes? Will there be more leading characters or will the spotlight be on Gi-hun this time?