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Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk has given some hopeful news for fans hoping for a date for the third season of the hit show, saying it will be coming “sooner than you’d expect”.Premiering in 2021, season one of Squid Game remains Netflix’s most watched series ever, becoming a worldwide hit and making an international star of Lee Jung-jae, who would go on to appear in Star Wars show The Acolyte.Season two debuted on December 26, to the biggest ever premiere for a show on the streaming service, with 68million viewers in the first four days.

Squid Game actor Park Sung-hoon has spoken about his trepidation playing a transgender character in season two of the show, given that the actor is a cisgender man.In the hit season, the actor plays the prominent character Cho Hyun-ju, a transgender woman with a military background entering the deadly game to fund her gender-affirming surgery. There was some controversy at the casting, although Park was mindful of the risks from the startIn an interview with Variety, he said: “I was quite amazed at the opportunity — I felt like as an actor it was going to be quite the challenge.

Big Bang member T.O.P has opened up about his recent role in the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game.On January 15, T.O.P spoke to South Korean media for the first time in years to discuss his recent return to the public eye as Thanos in season two of Squid Game. The 37-year-old rapper and actor was previously absent from the public eye due to previous backlash over his 2017 conviction for marijuana use.In an article published by The Korea Times, T.O.P shared that “the offer to play Thanos was a daunting proposition” for him. In Squid Game, Thanos is a rapper who joins the games after falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam.

Viewers have been left obsessing over the second season of Squid Games, which sees previous winner Seong Gi-hun - Player 456 - (Lee Jung-jae) return to the backstairs contest.

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk has described the hit show’s second season as being a “comeback” for the Korean rapper T.O.P.T.O.P, real name Choi Seung-hyun, was given a 10-month jail sentence and a two-year suspension from his mandatory military service in 2017 after being found guilty of using marijuana.Following the controversy, the rapper and actor – who rose to prominence as the lead rapper of the boy band BIGBANG in the 2000s – was excluded from the Korean entertainment industry until his appearance in Squid Game.In the Netflix thriller, he plays Thanos, a famous rapper who becomes Player 230, and uses drugs while competing.Speaking to People, Dong-hyuk has explained his decision to cast T.O.P in his show, while praising him for his performance too. He said: “This is a comeback after quite a long hiatus, and particularly because he portrays a character that’s a rapper and also someone who is on drugs.“I feel that it took him a lot of guts, in a way, to portray a character, especially someone who shares a lot of similarities that are quite negative to him as a person too.

Nearly a decade after receiving probation for marijuana use, Korean pop star T.O.P (aka Choi Seung-hyun) has made his public return in epic fashion.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from “Squid Game” Season 2 finale, now streaming on Netflix. Facing betrayal from an inside man infiltrating the Squid Games is nothing new for Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) within the twisted “Squid Game” universe. When the first season of the Korean drama released on Netflix in 2021, watching Player 001, the old man Oh Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), be revealed as the creator of the games came as a total surprise for both Gi-hun and the viewer.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the “Squid Game” Season 2 premiere, now streaming on Netflix. The second season of Netflix’s hit Korean drama “Squid Game” opens with a literal bang — quite a few of them, actually. But by far the most shocking is the one in the final few moments of the episode, titled “Bread and Lottery,” when Squid Game winner Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) unnecessarily risks his life in a game of Russian Roulette with The Recruiter (Gong Yoo) working for the games.

Squid Game 2 is officially out on Netflix!

Aramide Tinubu Created by writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk, the Emmy-winning “Squid Game,” Netflix‘s most-watched series of all time, has returned for a second season. Season 1 of the South Korean survival thriller followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced father and gambling addict who joins the Squid Game in hopes of earning enough prize money to pay off his debts and support his family. Gi-hun and 455 other players attempted to pull themselves out of poverty by competing against one another in nostalgic childhood games like “Red Light, Green Light,” “Marbles” and “Tug of War.” However, they quickly discovered elimination meant total annihilation.

Squid Game, Netflix’s breakout Korean drama series, has got another trailer.

Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk has teased a new mechanic in the upcoming season two of the hit Netflix series.In an interview with KoreaJoongAng Daily, Hwang shared that the highly anticipated season two of Squid Game will introduce a new “election system” to the show’s dealy games. According to the director, the “OX” voting system allows the game’s contestants to vote whether to continue the games after each round.“People are really taking sides a lot these days.

The first look at Squid Game Season 2 is here.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Squid Game” writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and two of the show’s stars, Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun, made the trek to Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games on Thursday and revealed new details of the hit Netflix series’ second season. Asked about what fans of the mega-hit Korean-language survival drama should expect, Hwang teased the “biggest difference” between the first and second seasons.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent In a major coup for the Italian geek meet, “Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season. “We are really proud that we’ve created an event that is one of the most powerful promotional platforms in the world” says Giovanni Cova, head of Milan-based entertainment marketing company QMI who works in tandem on the fest’s film and TV strand with Lucca chief Emanuele Vietina.

Squid Game season two will debut on Netflix at the end of the year and the streamer just released the first teaser trailer for the new episodes.

Squid Game fans have shared their reaction to the news that the hit Netflix K-drama will conclude with its third season.In a teaser clip released on Wednesday (August 31), the streamer announced that the second season will premiere on December 26, while also confirming that a third and final run of episodes will arrive in 2025.Netflix also released a letter from Squid Game writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, where he touched on the show’s eventual conclusion: “I am thrilled to see the seed that was planted in creating a new Squid Game grow and bear fruit through the end of this story.“We’ll do our best to make sure we bring you yet another thrill ride. I hope you’re excited for what’s to come.”Attention all players: we’re here to deliver an important message.

Squid Game, and announced that the show has been renewed for a third and final season.Today (August 1), Netflix released the announcement date trailer for the long-awaited season two of Squid Game. The clip opens with runners racing in a stadium, before people dressed in the show’s iconic green tracksuit overtake them.Watching over them are the Front Man and his masked guards, as he says: “It’s been three years, are you ready to play again?” Season two of Squid Game will premiere on December 26, with a newly announced third and final season coming next year.According to a newly released synopsis for Squid Game season two, the upcoming instalment will follow season one winner Gi-hun – aka Player 456 – who has become “determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport”.To this end, Gi-hun uses his winnings from the game to “fund his search”, before realising that “the path toward taking down the organization proves to be deadlier than he imagined: to end the game, he needs to re-enter it”.Meanwhile, Netflix has also released a new letter from Squid Game writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, where he touched on the upcoming final two seasons of the show: “I am thrilled to see the seed that was plated in created a new Squid Game grow and bear fruit through the end of this story.”The newly announced premiere date for Squid Game season two aligns with the update series lead Lee Jung-jae gave back in May.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Squid Game” Season 2 finally has a premiere date at Netflix, with the streamer also announcing that the hit Korean drama has been renewed for a third and final season. Season 2 will drop on Dec. 26, while the third season will premiere in 2025.

It’s been three years, are you ready to play again?

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season. The hotly anticipated second instalment of the Korean-language survival drama series is set to launch on Netflix by the end of the year.