Squid Game: The Challenge may have been controversial—nevertheless it was a huge hit for Netflix, and now there’s excellent news for each the streamer and followers who’d a lot slightly have the true deal than the truth competitors spin-off: the smash hit South Korean thriller will lastly return this 12 months.
Netflix has been teasing Squid Sport season two since summer 2022, nevertheless it felt like an inevitability given the series’ stratospheric popularity after its September 2021 debut. Deadline reports {that a} newly launched letter to Netflix buyers—who’ve simply as a lot of an curiosity in Squid Sport season two as followers do, if no more, contemplating the primary season’s standing as Netflix’s most-watched collection of all time—introduced that “regardless of final 12 months’s strikes pushing again the launch of some titles, now we have a giant, daring slate for 2024.” That slate contains extra Squid Sport.
No particular date was given for season two’s premiere—Deadline notes it “will begin manufacturing later this 12 months”—however the returning solid contains Lee Byung-hun (final season’s predominant character, Seong Gi-hun), Wi Ha-jun (who performs Hwang Jun-ho, the undercover cop), and Gong Yoo (the Squid Sport contestant recruiter). There can even be a big variety of new solid members—not shocking contemplating most of season one’s characters have been, uh, brutally killed—and Hwang Dong-hyuk might be again as director and exec producer.
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