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The creator of "The Squid Game" confirms: "There will be a second season, it's in my head right now"
At an event in Los Angeles yesterday, "Squid Game" creator Wang Dong-hyuk said that fan pressure could not be ignored and that he could confirm it would be a second season.
"I'm in the planning process right now," he said, "but I think it's too early to say when and how it will happen."
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Tuesday, 09 November 2021, 16:03 Updated: 16:18
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Trailer for the series "The Squid Game" (Netflix)
At a special screening yesterday (Monday) in Los Angeles, on the red carpet, "Squid Game" creator Wang Dong-hyuk told reporters that the intensity of love he received and the demand from fans for another season made him start thinking about plot directions.
"There was such great pressure, such great demand and such great love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave me no choice," the creator said.
"But I'll say there will indeed be a second season. She's in my head at this point. I'm in the planning process right now. But I think it's too early to say when and how it will happen."
Also in terms of plot, the end of the first season left an open thread for the sequel.
Wang also addressed this at the end of his remarks to reporters yesterday: "I promise you this: (the protagonist of the series) Gi-Hon will return and do something for the good of the world."
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Will do something for the good of the world.
Li Jong-ji as Song Gi-Hun, "The Squid Game" (Photo: Netflix)
Despite Wang's remarks, there is no official confirmation from Netflix for a second season.
However, the chances of it not happening are nil - this is the most successful Netflix series ever, and probably the most successful in the world right now in general.
About 132 million people around the world sampled it in the first three weeks after it went into service, and according to Netflix's estimates in internal documents obtained by the economic newspaper Bloomberg, the profit generated by the "squid game" (mostly from subscribers but also from merchandise) will reach 900 million $ - compared to $ 21.4 million that the production of the first season cost.
"The Squid Game," which aired on Netflix on September 17, follows Sung Gi-Hun (Lee Jong-ji), a poor and frayed man who lives with his elderly mother in a poor neighborhood in Seoul.
His crippling financial situation brings him to a mysterious game run by people in masks, overalls and submachine guns, in which he and hundreds of other people with financial problems compete with each other in a series of children's games.
The winners can win billions of won (hundreds of millions of shekels) that will help them get out of any possible debt, but what they do not know when they enter the game is that the losers are executed.
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