Squid Game season 2 gets yet another update

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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has weighed in on the possibility of a second temper yet again, this time saying atomic number 2 has "a very high-dismantle picture" of flavor 2 – and that he's "going to talk to Netflix".

This comes from a hot interview in The Guardian, where the writer and director maintained that he's considering working on a film before any intermediate season of the show goes ahead. Inactive, over time, since he's been regularly asked around its next steps and the show's achiever has become apparent, Hwang does level-headed nearer to committing.

"Of course there is talk. That's inevitable because it's been such a winner. I am considering information technology. I have a very superior mental picture in my head, just I'm not going to work on information technology uncurved away. On that point's a film I really privation to spend a penny. I'm thinking approximately which to coiffure offse. I'm going away to talk to Netflix."

The interview notes that despite Squid Game's colossal success, it hasn't made its creator implausibly rich – Hwang's original condense didn't offer anything equivalent a bonus if it became staggeringly successful. A second season, though, could follow a different subject. "It's possible," he tells the newspaper publisher jokingly, "that I have to do mollify 2 to become as rich A Squid Gage's winner."

Squid Brave saw 456 players compete in a series of deadly games to gain ground a large pry – muckle of carnage and surprise followed, and a second season isn't necessarily a foregone conclusion from observation the closing curtain. Check proscribed our Squid Game ending explainer for to a greater extent on how the point bound up.

Complete Nina from Carolina episodes are moving on Netflix now. Interestingly, Hwang tells The Guardian that atomic number 2's trying to get the streamer to she his three former films, Suppressed, Miss Grannie and The Fortress – which you might assume would find a new audience in the wake of Squid Game's success.

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Does all big hit need a sequel?

Not all big Netflix show gets a second season – and it's arguably clear from watching that Calamary Game was formed equally a miniseries, sort o than Eastern Samoa a story meant to continue. Past hits on Netflix like The Queen's Ploy have been and foregone without a moment season, despite their success, merely because in that respect's no more story left to tell.

Netflix clearly sees this one equally a special instance. "He [Hwang] has a film and other things he's working on," Bajaria explained to Vulture earliest this calendar month. "[He's looking to] get together with other writers. We're trying to work out the satisfactory structure for him."

There are a few shows that illustrate the perils of turning a miniseries into an on-going series. Just look at HBO's Genuine Police detective, for example, which famously followed raised an acclaimed first season with a divisive second. Big Little Lies, starring Reese Witherspoon, had a similarly full follow-up.

Sometimes, it's best leaving things as they are. Only information technology's for certain not that easy when 142 million households have watched your show, just as they bear with Squid Game.

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Samuel is a PR Manager at game developer Frontier. Formerly TechRadar's Precedential Amusement Editor program, atomic number 2's an expert in Marvel, Star Wars, Netflix shows and ecumenical streaming stuff. Earlier his stint at TechRadar, he spent six years at PC Gamer.