Although there is still a long time to wait - and the wait will certainly not be pleasant - it seems that some news has finally emerged on the second season of Squid Game , the Korean series which has become a real mass cultural phenomenon which, among various accolades, won the prestigious Emmy for director Hwang Dong-hyuk and actor Lee Jung Jae . Just the latter - let's remember, the protagonist of the series - recently reported, questioned on behalf of the Ilgan Sports newspaper, that filming will begin this summer but will not end before 2024 . It will therefore be necessary to take into account at least ten months of work ; if in fact a similar period of time was needed for the first series due to the pandemic, this time the reasons lie in the ambitions of the project, which wants to be much grander than the previous one and therefore will require considerable expenses and timing.
If we ventured a quick calculation, we could assume that, making the start of filming correspond to April-May 2023, the end of work could coincide with the end of 2024 or at the latest the beginning of 2025 . In the meantime, to ease the exhausting wait, the actor lets us know that the character of the Front Man, played by Lee Byung-hum, will have an even more decisive role in the next episodes . In fact, if before his role was mainly that of supervisor of the games, this time he will end up personally involved in the unfolding of events. The two characters will therefore be the central figures of a story whose main theme - from what we can draw from it - will be that of revenge.
Recalling that Squid Game is the television series that has been able to persuade Netflix to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in k-dramas, the words of director Hwang in this regard are striking when he states that he never expected such a success and that he will devise a system to bring back some of the characters from Season 1 who perished horribly in the lethal games.
Regarding the interviews granted to Variety and the Canneseries series festival, he also added that the process of making the first season was so long and exhausting that he was hardly able to convince himself to renew a second. Nonetheless, in a more recent interview with the Korea Times, Hwang said he is already in talks with Netflix for a third season . When it is said, in short, that the effort pays off.
John Scanu
