Squid Game Season 02 - Release Date, New Cast, And Everything We know!
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00:00One of the most thrilling shows of recent years,
00:02Netflix K-drama, Squid Game,
00:04is coming back with its brand new season two.
00:07Squid Game quickly rose to number one
00:09on the Netflix top 10 after premiering in September, 2021,
00:13and remained there for weeks
00:15as it garnered more and more buzz on social media.
00:18Though the show is not an easy binge,
00:20due to graphic violence and heady moral dilemmas,
00:23its excellent characters and terrifying scenarios
00:26had viewers asking whether they would make it
00:27through the deadly competition,
00:29as well as just how much money a life is worth.
00:32After gaining huge popularity all over the world,
00:35the Netflix series is set to release its season two,
00:38and fans are already going gaga over the news.
00:42On June 17th, the streaming platform
00:44shared a new video on Twitter
00:46where they revealed the cast of the upcoming season.
00:49From the release date to the cast of the plot,
00:51here is everything you need to know
00:53about Squid Game season two.
00:55Since Squid Game follows a death match,
00:57most of the cast doesn't make it through the first season.
01:00Except for Ji-hun, all of season one's players have died,
01:04including fan favorite Kang Se-baek, played by Jang Ho-yeon,
01:08and the secret mastermind, Oh Il-nam.
01:10In addition to a brief teaser
01:12featuring the iconic red light, green light doll, Young-hee,
01:16Netflix released a statement
01:17signed by the show's creator, Wong, saying,
01:19it took 12 years to bring the first season
01:22of Squid Game to life last year,
01:24but it took 12 days for Squid Game
01:26to become the most popular Netflix series ever.
01:29The statement goes on to confirm that season one winner,
01:31Ji-hun, played by Lee Jong-jae and Game Master frontman,
01:35Lee Byung-hun, will return.
01:37It also teases another cameo by Gong Yoo,
01:40who played recruiter, the salesman in season one,
01:43and hints that the next game
01:44will introduce a new robot mascot
01:46and Young-hee's boyfriend, Chil-su.
01:48Netflix confirmed that along with Ji-hun and frontman,
01:51Wei He-jun, who plays Wong Jun-ho,
01:54will return for the new season.
01:56Police detective Jun-ho's return tracks
01:58with popular fan theories about the character,
02:01who spent the first season
02:02investigating the gang from the inside
02:04while searching for his missing brother.
02:07It turned out his brother
02:08was the game's masked frontman the whole time,
02:10and the last we saw of Jun-ho,
02:12he was falling off a cliff into the ocean
02:14and was found dead.
02:16As for the new cast members,
02:17Netflix released the first major update
02:19about season two on June 17th this year.
02:23During its Tudum Live event,
02:24the streaming platform announced
02:26four new cast members playing the role of Jun-ho.
02:29The first cast member,
02:30who will be playing the role of Wei He-jun,
02:32will be played by Lee Byung-hun,
02:34and the second cast member will be played by Lee Byung-hun.
02:37As for the new cast members,
02:39Netflix confirmed that the new cast members
02:41will return for the new season.
02:43It also teases another cameo by Gong Yoo,
02:45who will be playing the role of Park Sang-hoon,
02:48who recently played Park Sang-hoon in the Korean drama,
02:51When the Camellia Blooms,
02:52and actor and rapper Yang Dong-joon.
02:55Park Sang-hoon, who recently played
02:57Jun Ji-joon in Netflix's The Glory.
03:00Kang Han-yul, who starred in the Korean miniseries drama,
03:03When the Camellia Blooms,
03:05and actor and rapper Yang Dong-joon.
03:08Kang Han-yul, who starred in the Korean miniseries drama,
03:11When the Camellia Blooms,
03:12and actor and rapper Yang Dong-joon.
03:15It became Netflix's number one must-watch show
03:17across 90 countries,
03:19and the streaming platform's most successful
03:21non-English show.
03:22It soon also became Netflix's biggest ever series launch,
03:26surpassing Bridgerton's record earlier last year,
03:29and the hashtag Squid Game had over 27
03:32and a half billion views on TikTok in weeks.
03:35Following months of silence regarding details
03:37of Squid Game season two,
03:39the show's protagonist actor, Lee Jun-jae,
03:41confirmed that filming has not yet begun.
03:44But thankfully, he did provide a rough timeline.
03:47Per reports from allkpop.com, Jun-jae said,
03:51Squid Game 2 will begin filming in the summer,
03:53and the filming will likely last for about 10 months.
03:56We were working on season one for about 10 months as well,
04:00but that was with delays caused by COVID-19.
04:03But seeing as season two will be bigger in scale,
04:05it will probably take longer to complete.
04:08In an interview for Vanity Fair's June 2022 issue,
04:12Squid Game's creator, Wong,
04:14revealed he was in final talks with Netflix
04:16about the second season,
04:17and that he expected the new episodes to come out
04:20in late 2023 or early 2024.
04:23He also told the outlet he had three pages worth of ideas
04:26for the script, and that the only character guaranteed
04:29to come back at the time was Lee Ji-hun.
04:32We first heard about Netflix's Squid Game back in 2019.
04:36It then took another two years for filming
04:38and production to finish up.
04:40So it's likely we won't see a second season
04:42until late 2023, or maybe even 2024.
04:46Now that a second season has been commissioned,
04:48we're hoping that the team get to work on it pretty quickly.
04:51However, we're also fairly sure we won't be seeing it
04:54on our screens for quite some time,
04:56especially if creator Don Herc's recent comments
04:58are anything to go by.
05:04The first season of the Squid Game series
05:06revolves around a secret contest where 456 players,
05:10all of whom are in deep financial hardship,
05:13risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games
05:16for the chance to win a 45.6 billion won reward.
05:20The main protagonist of the series, Seol Ji-hun,
05:23a divorced father and indebted gambler,
05:25played by Lee Jun-jae, is invited to play a series
05:28of children's games for a chance at a large cash prize.
05:32Accepting the offer, he is taken to an unknown location
05:35where he finds himself among 455 other players
05:39who are all in deep financial trouble.
05:41The players are made to wear green tracksuits
05:44and are kept under watch at all times
05:45by masked guards in pink jumpsuits
05:48with the games overseen by the front man,
05:50who weighs a black mask and black uniform.
05:53The players soon discover that losing a game
05:55results in their deaths, with each death
05:58adding 100 million won to the potential
06:0045.6 billion won grand prize.
06:03Ji-hun allies with other players,
06:05including his childhood friend Cho Sang-woo,
06:07and North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok,
06:10to try to survive the game's physical
06:12and psychological twists.
06:14As for the second season, the show's creator
06:16talked about the messages he hopes to convey
06:18with the new episodes.
06:19In an August 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter,
06:23series creator Wong Dong-hyuk said,
06:25"'The philosophies I put in season one
06:27all naturally extend to season two.
06:29Instead of trying to meet the expectations of viewers,
06:32I just thought about the last moment
06:34when Ji-hun turned away from boarding the plane,
06:36and I thought about what he will do next."
06:39He also offered a hint about season one winner
06:41Seon Ji-hun's state of mind
06:43after the final's cliffhanger ending, saying,
06:46"'There will naturally be a flow of events
06:47that will lead all the way to the end of the season.
06:50I can't share any details yet,
06:52but you know that Ji-hun has become a totally new person
06:55by the end of season one.
06:57So season two is going to be about
06:58what that new Ji-hun is going to do
07:00and how things will unfold with this new kind of character.'"
07:07While we don't know exactly what's next,
07:09and we're absolutely sure
07:10there will be plenty of surprises in store,
07:12Swig Games' season two will likely revolve
07:14around Ji-hun's journey to stop the games.
07:17It's unclear if he'll be a contestant on the next round,
07:20but it's definitely possible.
07:22It would be more interesting
07:23to see a new group of contestants.
07:25In an interview, protagonist Lee Jong-jae
07:28seemed to confirm that the frontman,
07:29played by Lee Byung-hun,
07:31would move from largely being in the shadows
07:33into a lead role.
07:35As we all saw at the end of season one,
07:37the main plot of season two will be revenge,
07:39and the key figure who controlled the workings
07:41of the games in season one was Lee Byung-hun.
07:44So it seems that the two of us
07:45will be the central figures of this next story.
07:48Jung Ho-yeon has addressed several fan theories
07:51about season two after many viewers
07:53have speculated her character Kang Sae-byeok
07:55might have survived.
07:57In a YouTube video with Vanity Fair,
07:59the actor debunked the theories seen on Reddit.
08:02The star disagreed with a Reddit user's suggestion
08:05that her character's little brother, Chul,
08:07could enter the game to avenge her death,
08:09saying,
08:10my brother shouldn't go there to play.
08:12I'm gonna say no for that.
08:15As to the rumors that player one is 456th father,
08:18given the latter dislikes milk,
08:19just like player one's son,
08:21and that he and player one's son have the same birthday,
08:24Ho-yeon replied,
08:25it could make sense,
08:27but that's even more stressful to watch.
08:29Do you guys need more stress?
08:31Maybe the director, Hwang, needs more stress,
08:35but I'm a more peaceful person.
08:38The actor also shut down rumors
08:40that her character survived at the end of season one.
08:42While she said she also wishes her character saved herself,
08:46she also is quite happy that her character died.
08:49The first season of Squid Game
08:51is available to Bing to watch on Netflix.
08:53When Squid Game season two is released,
08:56you can watch it exclusively on Netflix.
08:58As mentioned before,
08:59it's going to be a while until that happens.
09:01We'll share more information about Squid Game season two
09:04when we find out.
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