![]() I cannot tell you how much, but yes, we’ll have bigger budget and I’ll get paid a little bit more. Given how huge the series was, especially compared to its cost, he did say he thinks “Squid Game” will have an increased budget this time: “Yes, I believe so. There will be yet more games in the show’s second season, Hwang said - he didn’t want to give away too much. When pressed about whether audiences will see Gong Yoo - who plays the show’s dapper, slapping salesman, and also starred in Hwang’s 2011 film “Silenced” - he smiled, and said, “Yeah, you might.” Most other characters are dead, of course, but Hwang said, “They can come back in dreams - like maybe in Gi-hun’s dream.” (He may have been joking.) He confirmed that Lee will be back, as will Lee Byung-hun, who plays the sinister Front Man who oversees the games. ![]() “There are very small loose knots throughout the first season, so to speak, things that I didn’t conclude, and put in little rooms for further expansion,” he said. Though Hwang designed Season 1 of “Squid Game” to be self-contained, its ending perfectly set the show up to continue. ![]() “I did not think it was a uniquely Korean story - I felt that these issues were currently either happening or something waiting to happen in any part of the world,” Hwang told Variety. Debt is crushing these people, which has led them into a contest that will almost certainly kill them. Hwang’s “Squid Game” is a deeply political critique of global capitalism, with the children’s games that serve as the series’ engine bringing out the best in some of its contestants, and the worst in others. He’s invited to participate in a deadly game - one that exploits people with his sorts of problems - with 456 contestants and a huge cash prize at the end: if, that is, he survives to win it. After losing his job and his family, Gi-hun has become a deadbeat dad to his daughter, and an irresponsible son to his mother. ‘Squid Game’ creator, whose series was rejected for 10 years, once had to sell his laptop to make 675 OctoSquid Game creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk had to endure his own. “Squid Game” is the story of the woeful Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae). Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and its audiobook, and The Earthborn Trilogy, also on audiobook. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. But still, this is an insane accomplishment that deserves to continue to be spotlighted.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. If we are going with lifetime viewing, I still would have to believe something like The Office, back when it was still on Netflix, was probably more popular overall. What we don’t know is if Squid Game is Netflix’s true most popular show ever, because we’re only counting originals here. In terms of the cast, this was a series that saw almost everyone onscreen dying, and I can only even think of two or three actors who could return, though I won’t say who they are, to avoid survival spoilers. Obviously writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk is in a massive power position here in terms of negotiations, though even he admitted he will need writing and directing help for a new season, as he didn’t have one mapped out in his mind ahead of time. Netflix has not actually publicly greenlit season 2 of Squid Game yet, likely because this is such an unprecedented situation for everyone involved.
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