Squid Recreation Season 2 is likely one of the most anticipated reveals of the yr. Though it gained’t be the top of the hit Netflix sequence, its creator just lately revealed why he the present will solely go on for one remaining, third season.
Why is Squid Recreation ending with Season 3?
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Squid Recreation creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that, whereas writing for Squid Recreation Season 2, it got here “naturally” to him that the present might go on for a 3rd season that might mark the top. For him, the story he was telling merely reached its endpoint.
“Once I was desirous about the thought for the ending of season three, I believe it form of naturally got here to me that this was the finale,” Hwang stated. “I believed that with that story, I used to be in a position to inform every little thing that I needed to inform by way of the story of Squid Recreation and in addition within the perspective of Gi-hun as a personality, and I believed that we don’t want any additional tales from right here.”
No official launch data is on the market for Squid Recreation Season 3 simply but, however the present is anticipated to launch in 2025. Squid Recreation Season 2 will premiere on December 26, 2024, solely on Netflix.
The forged of the brand new season of Squid Recreation consists of Gong Yoo, Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Gained Ji-an.
Hwang Dong-hyuk serves as the author, director, and government producer for the brand new season of the sequence. He stated of Squid Recreation Season 2 when talking to Tudum in 2022, “There’s undoubtedly plenty of strain on how one can make [Season 2] even higher. I do know that plenty of the completely different followers and audiences have loved the sequence very a lot, however, actually, we’re specializing in how one can make it much more joyful to the worldwide viewers.”
The primary season of Squid Recreation was launched in September 2021. It rapidly turned one among Netflix’s most-watched sequence of all time after which went on to win plenty of completely different awards, together with the Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence (Lee Jung-jae), Excellent Directing for a Drama Sequence (Hwang Dong-hyuk), and extra.
(Supply: The Hollywood Reporter)