It took over three years for "Squid Game" Season 2 to follow up the first. But fans can take comfort that the window between seasons 2 and 3 will be far, far shorter.
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00:00It took over three years for Squid Game Season 2 to follow up the first, but fans can take
00:05comfort that the window between Seasons 2 and 3 will be far, far shorter.
00:10Netflix had already announced that the third season would be coming sometime in 2025, but
00:15the streamer has now made the exact date official — June 27th.
00:19That's almost exactly six months after the premiere of Season 2.
00:23You want to play again?
00:26I want you to send me in there again."
00:28The morning of January 30th, Netflix's official ex-account shared a poster for Squid Game
00:333 that includes the date alongside a pink-clad guard dragging a body toward one of those
00:38gift box coffins used in the games.
00:40USA Today reports that the day before, Netflix's chief content officer Bella Bergeria unveiled
00:45a release date at an event where the streamer showed previews of several of its 2025 projects.
00:51Attendees caught a brief glimpse of Squid Game protagonist Song Gi-hun handcuffed, presumably
00:56after his failed rebellion attempt at the end of Season 2.
00:59The Duffer Brothers also teased the final season of Stranger Things at the event in
01:03Los Angeles.
01:04So, how did the makers of Squid Game turn this one around so quickly?
01:08In a January 2 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, show creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told
01:13The Hollywood Reporter,
01:14"...I wrote Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back, we film them back-to-back, and it's currently
01:18in post."
01:19"...Witness the consequences of your little game."
01:23Clearly, Dong-hyuk and the creators planned ahead this time, something they did not do
01:27after Season 1.
01:29In fact, Dong-hyuk originally only expected the show to have one season.
01:33In an August 2023 interview with SBS Star, actor Lee Byung-hun, who plays the frontman
01:38and is an old friend of Dong-hyuk's, said that the creator initially never planned for
01:43the show to have a sequel.
01:44But then the show's massive international success took everyone by surprise, and making
01:48more was inevitable.
01:50It just took some time to get it out to fans.
01:52Given that Season 3 is being promoted as the last, it does seem clear that Dong-hyuk is
01:57really done with Squid Game now.
01:59Kinda.
02:00He told THR,
02:01"...I believe I've had closure to the story I wanted to tell about society through the
02:05character of Song Gi-hun."
02:06But he didn't rule out the possibility of continuing the franchise through a spinoff
02:10of some kind.
02:11It seems he even has an idea for what the next piece of the Squid Game puzzle could
02:14be.
02:15Dong-hyuk said,
02:16For example, the masked guards.
02:18How did they end up here?
02:20What do they do in their downtime?
02:22Something like that, maybe.