While season 2 of Squid Game is delayed, and scheduled for 2024, here is good news with the return of these 2 very popular characters. A season 2 which promises to be in line with the previous one.
What about season 2?
Given the unconditional success of the first season of Squid Game, the second is logically expected in homes around the world. Unfortunately, we learned recently during the Canneséries Festival that its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, had only written 3 pages of the screenplay, and that the sequel to the Korean drama could not be unveiled before 2024, at least. An announcement that has undoubtedly disappointed many Netflix subscribers.
Especially since the end of the first act foreshadowed a whirlwind return of Seong Gi-hun, the main character who won the death games. As a reminder, in the last episode, then out of his depression, post Squid GameGi-hun decides to visit his daughter in the United States. But as he prepares to pass the boarding gate, he decides to turn around, probably to stop the next edition of the games.
The return of two important characters
If some thought beforehand that the show, which had the effect of a comet, would only contain one season, the finish as a cliffhanger served as a teaser following the adventures of Gi-hun and his colossal enterprise. After the bad news of a delay, here’s a more positive one: series creator Hwang Dong-hyeok just confirmed at Contenders Television’s annual conference. Deadline held at Paramount Studios, that two iconic characters from the first season will be back.
Gi-hun, that’s for sure. He will come back, and I think that the Front Man will return also “.
We suspected that the now famous anti-hero would return to thwart the plans of the Front Man. Recall that the latter is the supervisor of the games of death (the creator being Oh Il-Nam). A former winner of the competition, the Front Man is found by his policeman brother Hwang Jun-ho, but he shoots him at the edge of a cliff, dropping him into the depths of the sea. These announced returns confirm in any case the events narrated at the end of season 1.
The themes covered
On the other hand, Hwang Dong-hyeok also dropped some information on the themes that will be at the center of season 2. When questioned, he stated that:
For this project and in future projects, it is impossible not to take into account the political polarization, cultural differences and difficulties, as well as the environmental climate changes that are occurring. I will be compelled to observe and critique and continue to address these topics in future projects.”
These cultural issues have already been addressed through the presence of minorities, that of the Pakistani migrant worker Ali Abdul, as well as Kang Sae-byeok, the North Korean dissident.
Moreover, the creator of Squid Game had also announced a few weeks earlier, the possible return of Ho-yeon Jung, who plays Kang Sae-byeok so, the North Korean contestant as her own evil twin sister.
Note that the father of Squid Game working on a new movie, Killing Old People Club, adapted from a novel by Umberto Eco which will evoke serial murders of elderly people. A project underway which could explain the possible delay of season 2 of the Korean drama.