Squid Game Developer Gives A Little Fun Look For Season Three

Squid Games The second season hit Netflix on December 26, and with the third and final season coming later this year, it’s no surprise that it ended on painful cliffhanger. While fans are waiting to see what will happen to Seong Gi-hun-aka Player 456, played by Lee Jung-jae-ndi. the other survivors, Squid Games the creator Hwang Dong-hyuk delivers a well-chosen voiceover which is probably the only hint we’ll get until the next episodes arrive.

Talking with and the Hollywood ReporterHwang allowed that Squid GamesThe final third will focus on two characters you would expect: Gi-hun, of course, and Lee Byung-hun’s Front Man. The latter entered the game as Player 001 and occasionally approximately he seemed to sympathize with Gi-hun’s desire to take down the tournament once and for all. However, as the end of the second season showed, he is not a good person in secret. He’s still a merciless killer, and he’s still stuck with the bad things he prioritizes.

Or him? When asked if there is hope for Front Man, all Hwang can say is “You can see it in the third season. There is an answer to that question.”

Ending the second season on a hopeless note – Gi-hun’s player rebellion is over, and he still doesn’t know that Front Man has been playing him all along – was a deliberate choice to set up the third season. Gi-hun’s failure on the road results in a devastating loss of his best friend, Player 390. “I wanted to end the second season right away—and start the next season from a place of great adversity and defeat,” Hwang said. “I wanted to see where it could go Gi-hun.”

He continued. “The third season will really see the loss and failure, the guilt that weighs heavily on Gi-hun. How can he handle the story in such a difficult way? I personally feel that the third season is the last of the story. It is because I believe that I have closed the story that I wanted to tell about people through the character of Seong Gi-hun If I ever wanted to go back to the world Squid Gamesit can be about different characters with different stories. Some kind of distraction, maybe. “

One character we won’t be seeing again (unless there’s a problem) is Thanos, a fan favorite Choi Seung-hyun, aka former K-pop star TOP Hwang feels your pain, but he confirmed to THR. that Thanos will not be easily forgotten. “He’s also one of my favorite people! I believe that was the right time for him to leave…it was very strong, it was the right way at the right time for him to go. The way he leaves the story, if you watch it until the third season, it’s like he’s still there in some ways and the way he affects the plot.”

Squid Games seasons one and two are now on Netflix; a third season is expected sometime in 2025.

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