After the large success of Netflix’s Squid Recreation, collection creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed that season two is within the works.
At an occasion honoring the present in Los Angeles, Hwang and Lee Jung-jae, who performs Squid Recreation protagonist Seong Gi-hun, spoke with the Related Press a couple of potential second season.
“There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season. I almost feel like you leave us no choice,” Hwang told the AP. “But I will say there will indeed be a second season. It’s in my head right now. I’m in the planning process currently.”
The Korean survival drama started production in 2019 and became one of Netflix’s biggest shows on the platform when it premiered in September.
In late October, Hwang told The Guardian that he has “a really high-level image in my thoughts [of season two], however I am not going to work on it immediately.” He has his sights on a movie, tentatively referred to as KO Membership, brief for Killing Previous Males Membership, he advised Selection.
The viral success of Squid Recreation, nonetheless, could require him to get cracking on season two quickly. No matter it turns into, “I’ll promise you this…Gi-Hun will come again, and he’ll do one thing for the world,” Hwang advised the AP.
Till then, Netflix is streaming three of Hwang’s South Korean characteristic movies: SilencedSilenced, Miss GrannyMiss Granny, and The FortressThe Fortress. You may catch Lee Jung-jae, in the meantime, in Svaha: The Sixth FingerSvaha: The Sixth Finger. The streaming service additionally has just a few suggestions for addictive Korean exhibits to attempt subsequent.