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Squid game The second season hit Netflix on December 26, and with a third and final season arriving later this year, it’s no shocker. agonizing cliffhanger. While fans wait to see what’s next for Seong Gi-hun-aka Player 456, played by Lee Jung-jae-and the other survivors, Squid game creatures Hwang Dong-hyuk offers some well-chosen words that will probably be the only clues we can tease out until more episodes arrive.
Speaking to the Hollywood ReporterHwang allowed that Squid gameThe last third of the other will focus on the two characters you expect the most: Gi-hun, of course, and also Front Man by Lee Byung-hun. The latter slithered his way into the game as Player 001 and sometimes almost He seemed sympathetic to Gi-hun’s desire to crush the competition once and for all. However, as the second season finale amply demonstrated, he’s not secretly a good guy. He is still a cold-blooded killer, and he always sticks to his sinister priorities.
Or is he? Asked if there is hope for the Front Man, all Hwang said is “You can see in the third season. There is an answer to this question.”
Ending the second season in such a depressing place – Gi-hun’s players’ revolt has been crushed, and he doesn’t even know that the Front Man has been playing him the whole time – was a deliberate choice to set up the third season . Gi-hun’s failures along the way lead to the devastating loss of his best friend, Player 390. “I wanted to end the second season at that moment — then start the next season from that space where he’s riding with an enormous amount of guilt and defeat,” Hwang said. “I wanted to see where that would take Gi-hun next.”
He continued. “The third season will really explain that sense of loss and failure, that guilt that weighs so heavily on Gi-hun. How is he going to navigate the story further with all that weighing on him? Personally, I see the third season as ‘and the end of this story. It is because I had closure to the story that I wanted to tell about the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever wanted to return to the world of Squid gameit was about different characters with a different story arc. Some kind of spin-off, maybe. “
One character we won’t be seeing again (unless there’s some sort of prequel situation) is Thanos, the fan-favorite villain played by Choi Seung-hyun, aka former K-pop star TOP Hwang hears the your pain, but he assured THR. that Thanos will not be easily forgotten. “He’s also one of my favorite characters! I think it was the right time to see him out … it was very intense, which was the right way at the right time to go. The way he left the story, if you look until the season three, it’s almost going to feel like it’s still there in some ways in terms of how it affects the plot.”
Squid game seasons one and two are now on Netflix; the third season is expected in 2025.
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