Squid Game’s Creator Offers a Few Tantalizing Season 3 Scraps

The squid game The second season hit Netflix on December 26, and with the third and final season coming later this year, it’s no shocker that it’s over. Excruciating cliffhanger. While fans wait to see what lies ahead for Seong Gi-hoon—aka Player 456, starring Lee Jung-jae—and Others who are alive, The squid game the creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is offering some carefully chosen words that we can probably only clue until more episodes come out.

talking The Hollywood ReporterHwang agreed The squid gameIts final third will focus on the two characters you most expect: Gi-hoon, of course, as well Lee Byung-hun’s front man. The latter as Player 001 and occasionally dropped his way into the game almost Seems sympathetic to Gi-hoon’s desire to break the competition once and for all. However, as the second season finale proved, he’s not secretly a good guy. He’s still a cold-blooded killer, and he still adheres to his sinister priorities.

Or is he? Asked if there’s hope for the front man, all Hwang would say is “You’ll see it in season three. That’s the answer.”

Ending season two in such a dark place—Gi-hoon’s player rebellion has stalled, and he still doesn’t know that the front man has been playing him all along—was a deliberate choice to set up season three. Gi-hoon’s failures along the way lead to devastating losses His best friend, Player 390. “I wanted to end the second season at that point—then start the next season from a place where she’s in a lot of guilt and defeat,” says Hwang. “I wanted to see where this would lead Gi-hoon.”

He continued. “The third season will really explore that sense of loss and failure, the guilt that weighs so heavily on Gi-hoon. How is he going to navigate the story further with all that? Personally, I see the third season as the conclusion of this story. This is because I believe I am close to the story I wanted to tell about society through Seong Gi-hoon’s character. If I ever want to go back to its world The squid gameIt will be about different characters with a different story arc A kind of spinoff, maybe.”

One character we won’t see again (unless there’s some kind of prequel situation) is Thanos, the villainous fan favorite played by Choi Seung-hyun, also known as former K-pop star Top Hwang, who feels your pain, but He assured THR that Thanos will not be easily forgotten. “He’s one of my favorite characters! I believe it was the right time for him to leave … it was very intense, the right way at the right time for him to go. The way he left the story, if you look up to the third season, it’s almost like That he’s still there in terms of how he affects the plot.

The squid game Seasons one and two are now on Netflix; There will be a third season by 2025.

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