Squid Recreation Season 2 is among the most anticipated reveals of the 12 months. Though it received’t be the tip of the hit Netflix collection, its creator not too long ago revealed why he the present will solely go on for one ultimate, third season.
Why is Squid Recreation ending with Season 3?
Chatting with 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 will mark the tip. For him, the story he was telling merely reached its endpoint.
“Once I was fascinated by the concept for the ending of season three, I feel 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 thing that I wished to inform via the story of Squid Recreation and in addition within the perspective of Gi-hun as a personality, and I assumed that we don’t want any additional tales from right here.”
No official launch info is accessible for Squid Recreation Season 3 simply but, however the present is predicted 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 contains 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 govt producer for the brand new season of the collection. He stated of Squid Recreation Season 2 when chatting with Tudum in 2022, “There’s undoubtedly quite a lot of strain on the right way to make [Season 2] even higher. I do know that quite a lot of the completely different followers and audiences have loved the collection very a lot, however, actually, we’re specializing in the right way to make it much more joyful to the worldwide viewers.”
The primary season of Squid Recreation was launched in September 2021. It shortly grew to become one in every of Netflix’s most-watched collection of all time after which went on to win a variety 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)