The sport is much from over, Squid Sport followers.
Netflix confirmed the second season pickup for its smash-hit Korean drama on Sunday.
Information of the renewal comes 9 months after its high-flying sequence premiere on the streaming service.
The pickup announcement included a letter from the sequence director, author, and govt producer Hwang Dong-hyuk.
“It took 12 years to convey the primary season of Squid Sport to life final yr,” he wrote.
“It took 12 days for Squid Sport to change into the preferred Netflix sequence ever.”
The letter confirmed Gi-hun and Entrance Man can be part of the second season.
Younger-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su, will even be part of the forged.
Squid Sport shortly broke data for Netflix, turning into the primary Korean authentic sequence to steer the High 10 recognition chart.
With 1.65 billion views in its first 28 days of launch. the sequence presently holds the file for Netflix’s most watched sequence — English-language or non-English-language — by a substantial margin.
The sequence began with first rate numbers, however grew from there, proving that phrase of mouth could make or break the success of a sequence.
Followers have been enamored with the twists and turns all through the sequence, which constructed to a dramatic conclusion.
Whereas a renewal was a no brainer, there have been some hurdles in the way in which.
Netflix’s Bela Bajaria beforehand defined that it might hinge on whether or not the inventive behind the sequence would have the time.
“He has a movie and different issues he’s engaged on,” Bajaria mentioned to Vulture. “We’re attempting to determine the best construction for him.”
The sequence picks up Seong Gi-hun, a divorced father and indebted gambler who lives together with his aged mom, who’s invited to play a sequence of kids’s video games for an opportunity at a big money prize.
Accepting the provide, he’s taken to an unknown location the place he finds himself amongst 455 different gamers who’re all deeply in debt.
The gamers are made to put on inexperienced tracksuits and are saved beneath watch always by masked guards in pink jumpsuits, with the video games overseen by the Entrance Man, who wears a black masks and black uniform.
The gamers quickly uncover that dropping a sport leads to their dying, with every dying including ₩100 million to the potential ₩45.6 billion grand prize.
Gi-hun allies with different gamers, together with his childhood pal Cho Sang-woo and North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok, to attempt to survive the bodily and psychological twists of the video games.
It was a stunning sequence, and we’re blissful to know there’s extra within the playing cards.
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