Squid Game: Last News

Netflix have announced today (January 30) that the third and final season of smash hit Squid Game will arrive on the service on June 27.Season two of the show, about a deadly game that draws in financially desperate people as contestants, was a big success for the streamer upon its debut last month, and a teaser for the third season followed shortly after its conclusion.In a press release, Netflix described the premise of what’s to come: “Picking up where the second season left off, season three explores the choices Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) will make amidst overwhelming despair. As the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) plots his next move, the surviving players find their decisions leading to increasingly dire consequences with each round of the deadly games”.It also hyped up the excitement of the next chapter, saying: “This season promises to push the limits of suspense and drama, keeping viewers glued to the action”.

Netflix has increased its subscription prices in the UK, after it raised its fees in the US, Canada, Argentina and Portugal last month.For UK customers, the price of a Standard subscription without adverts has risen by £2 to £12.99 a month, with other packages also increasing.The cheapest option – the Standard subscription with adverts – is rising by £1 to £5.99 a month, while the most expensive Premium subscription is also increasing by £1 to £18.99 a month.The platform is also increasing the fee of its Extra Member add-ons by £1, meaning it will now cost £4.99 to add an additional user to a Standard subscription with adverts, and £5.99 to add an additional user to a Standard subscription without adverts.The price changes are now reflected on Netflix’s website, with the new fees applying to both new and existing customers.In a statement, a Netflix spokesperson said the price hike would allow the streamer to “continue to invest in programming and delivery more value for our members”.The streaming service reported record global subscriber numbers at the end of 2024, driven in part by the second season of the South Korean drama series Squid Game, as well its expanding sports coverage.The company said it finished 2024 with more than 300 million subscribers in total.

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Squid Game, has died at the age of 81.South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reported that she had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in November and passed away at her family home in the city of Uijeongbu on Sunday (February 2).Lee played Park Mal-soon in the hit Netflix show, the mother of Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), the police detective that joins forces with a fisherman to attempt to locate the island where the games are being held in season two.Her character is also the stepmother of Hwang In-ho, also known as The Front Man, the main antagonist of the show. In season two, he disguises himself as Player 001 in the games in an effort to thwart Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) plans to bring down the games.Lee started her career in 1964 and quickly established herself as a prolific actor and voice performer.

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.

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.

A contestant on the UK’s ITV’s Squid Game-inspired game show has branded it “dangerous” — after three people ended up in hospital during filming.Amir Jardan, 38, says he was left “struggling to breathe” while taking part in a challenge which saw contestants jump into a “mountain” of hay that “exploded with dust”. Several people, including Amir, were left to seek medical attention — with one man “needing urgent hospital care after developing an allergic reaction”.

While the second season of “Squid Game” has new plot twists, one element of the Netflix mega-hit series where contestants down on their luck risk their lives to play children’s games for the chance of winning cash prizes, has remained constant.That is Young-hee, an innocent-looking robotic doll who, in fact, has a deadly role in the South Korean-made television series to find contestants to gun downplaying the game “Red Light, Green Light” if she spots them moving.Young-hee, who is clad in a simple orange dress and a hair clip, has become a viral meme on social media and the centerpiece of the streaming giant’s promotional campaign.Chae Kyoung-sun, the production designer for “Squid Game,” said the doll’s appearance had been partly inspired by her own daughter.“My daughter had a bowl cut for a long time which was very cute so I decided to draw a very short bang,” Chae told Reuters.“Her eyes are a little crazy. She’s a killing machine and the movement of her eyes had to be easy to see, so we made her eyes quite big.”The initial inspiration for Young-hee came from a girl of the same name on the cover of old primary school textbooks in South Korea, though the killer doll was initially conceived as genderless, Chae said.The first season of “Squid Game” became the most-watched show on the streaming platform and expectations were high for the second season to replicate the success.The new season of the dystopian thriller, released on Dec.

Netflix subscribers have taken to social media to express their dismay at the service raising its prices in the US.The rise, the first since October 2023, sees the standard subscription with no adverts now cost $17.99 (£14.60) a month, up from $15.49. Its membership with ads will also rise, by one dollar to $7.99 (£6.46).

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.

Netflix hit Squid Game, and fans have reacted online.The second season of the global phenomenon debuted on December 26, and according to Netflix’s own figures the show broke the record for the highest premiere for a show on their service with over 68million views during the first three days of release.A screengrab has been shared by a user on X (formerly Twitter), that shows a camera operator in black with a camera on their shoulder. Fans have responded to the mistake, with one asking “How does stuff like this go unnoticed?”How does stuff like this go unnoticed lmao….— Chris Cutaneo (@chriscutaneo1) January 8, 2025Others made a joke of the gaffe, with one speculating that it was character The Frontman.Elsewhere, some have compared it to mistakes in HBO show Game of Thrones, which made headlines for having coffee cups and water bottles in shot.

Squid Game director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said in an interview that the show’s latest season reflects the political turmoil South Korea is currently facing.Korea JoongAng Daily reported today (January 8) that Hwang drew parallels between the voting scene in the newly released Squid Game season two and the political division over Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment in Korea, calling it an “eerie” resemblance.“I heard on the news that the supporters and opponents of impeachment almost got into a fight, and in the end, the police had to draw a line between them with barricades,” he told press. “It gave me chills, as it was strikingly similar to Squid Game where people are divided by a line between O and X.”In the second season of Squid Game, players are required to make a vote between O and X after every round to determine the continuance of the games.

Squid Game has smashed Netflix viewership records once again with its second season.Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the dystopian thriller’s second season picks up three years later, as Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns to the games in the hopes of bringing down the organisation entirely.Other returning cast members include Lee Byung-hun as the Front Man, Wi Ha-joon as detective Hwang Jun-ho, and Gong Yoo as the recruiter. Among the newcomers to the cast is Choi Seung-hyun, also known as K-pop star T.O.P, who plays Thanos.The show’s second and third season were filmed back-to-back, with the latter set to be released at some point in 2025.While there’s no concrete explanation from the creators about the characterisation of Thanos in Squid Game season two, his frequent jump between Korean and English is a common trait among Korean rappers.This can be heard in songs by K-pop bands like BigBang; the group Thanos actor T.O.P was a member of until May 2023.

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.

Squid Game, has teased the show’s upcoming third and final season.Hwang Dong-hyuk was recently interviewed by Yonhap News Agency, where he shared new details about Squid Game’s forthcoming third and final season, due out sometime later this year.“It’s difficult for me to share specifics,” he told the outlet, “but I can tell you this: I wanted to explore the very end of despair, where even those holding onto the faintest glimmers of hope see them shattered. When all hope is extinguished and only despair remains – what lies beyond that?”Hwang also shared that the upcoming season of Squid Game, now in the final stages of production, will bring the story to a definitive close “in every sense of the word”.He added that “among the three seasons, the final one is my favourite and you should be prepared for something intense.

Netflix hit Squid Game has gone viral after things didn’t go according to plan.At a subway station in Turkey, a group of actors dressed as the pink Soldiers from the show tried to board a train. While most of the participants made it onto the carriage, one Soldier was left behind as the train doors shut before they could walk through.READ MORE: ‘Squid Game’ season two records Netflix’s biggest ever opening figures for a debut seriesThe humorous footage was shared on X, with one user remarking that “one player was eliminated before the game even started”.

David Fincher has revealed he was invited to pitch his own take on Harry Potter for the makers of the original movie series, but the talks broke down when his vision didn’t align with theirs.Speaking to Variety to promote the upcoming 4K re-release of his classic thriller Seven, the three-time Academy Award nominee recalled his meeting with Warner Bros, who asked him how he would adapt J.K. Rowling’s successful book series.“I remember saying, ‘I just don’t want to do the clean Hollywood version of it’” he revealed.

Squid Game season two clocked up over 68million views in its first four days, more than any other Netflix series in its premiere week.The global viewing figures smashed the record of 50.1million views previously set by Wednesday in November 2022.The new series of the K-drama, which landed on Boxing Day (December 26), is also currently sitting at Number Seven on the steaming service’s most popular non-English language TV titles of all time. Season one is currently at the top of that list with 265.2million views.Season two was also the most watched title from the week December 23-29, while renewed interest was shown in series one which charted at Number Three in the non-English language TV series of the week with 8.1million views.It comes after Netflix shared its first teaser trailer for the upcoming third season of Squid Game.A release date for the third season of Squid Game has yet to be announced.Season two of Squid Game scored a four-star review, with Nick Levine writing for NME: “With Squid Game‘s third and final season due next year, it’s hardly a spoiler to say there’s no clear resolution.

Season 2 is now streaming, and some viewers are taking issue with the sophomore installment of the hit bloody Korean Netflix show. “The second season of Squid Game is a thorough letdown,” wrote a critic for The Hollywood Reporter, adding, “Season two simply doesn’t work.” Collider‘s similarly unenthusiastic review read, “You can see the plot twists coming a mile away even when a new game is introduced and if you don’t, the show flashes lights in your face to make sure you’re prepared for the incoming twist.

Netflix‘s Squid Game has arrived, the show’s creator has outlined a release window for the show’s third and final season – see what he had to say below.The highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s hit Korean thriller-survival series Squid Game released in full yesterday (December 26). Earlier this year, Netflix confirmed that the series is due to conclude with a third and final season, expected to arrive sometime in 2025.Now, series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has spoken about the upcoming final run of episodes, including when he thinks it will be announced and when he thinks it will be released.In a new interview with Variety, Hwang said: “At this point, anything I might say is going to be a spoiler, so I want to be cautious.

Season 2 of the hit show. Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke about the criticism in a new interview with TV Guide, published on Tuesday. The character at the center of the controversy — a transgender woman named Hyun-ju — is a new addition to “Squid Game,” who reportedly partakes in the deadly competition because she is “short on money for her gender-affirming surgery.”Dong-hyuk, who also directs the Korean language series, told TV Guide that he could not find a transgender female actor to play Hyun-ju.