Red Light gets Green Light! Squid Game season 1 was an international success. The Korean survival drama has also been nominated for several awards, including the Critics’ Choice Television Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and even a Golden Globe for actor O Yeong-su, who played the elderly 001. However, months after taking the world by storm and leaving fans yelling for more, Netflix’s Squid Game got greenlit for a Season 2 renewal this year in January.
For the past six months-plus, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has pulled double duty, campaigning for the first season while writing a second season of the drama it took him 12 years to bring to life. Hwang Dong-hyuk was also teased previously that Squid Game season 2 is on the way. However, Netflix has officially greenlighted the Squid Game season 2, along with some specific details. Netflix has recently shared a letter from Hwang and released it by the streamer and revealing who all will reprise their role.
Gi-hun played by Lee Jung-jae, will be back as the winner and sole survivor of the titular games, as well as the mysterious Front Man, revealed as superstar Lee Byung-hun, who operates the competition, will also reprise his role. In addition, Hwang teases the possible return of a fan-favourite cameo, beloved Korean leading man Gong Yoo, who played the anonymous recruiter who lures desperate people into the game through the traditional Korean card-flipping game of ‘ddakji.’
Squid game creator, Hwan, also promised that Squid Game season 2 will include new threats while revealing one, “You’ll also be introduced to Young-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su.” Although never named as such in the show, Korean viewers of a certain age will recognize Young-hee as the name of the little-girl character in their childhood textbooks, whose image was terrifyingly reappropriated as the larger-than-life animatronic figure during the deadly game of ‘Red Light, Green Light.’ In the textbooks, Young-hee shared adventures with a little boy, named Cheol-su.
Netflix also has released the first official teaser of Squid Game 2 that gives a close-up of the eye of an animatronic figure, likely Cheol-su, with a glowing red ‘2’ in the iris. Check out the first teaser of Squid game season 2 here:
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