‘Squid Game’ Creator Isn’t Rushing Into Season 2

If the ending of Netflix‘s newest huge hit Squid Game has you itching for a sequel, sadly, you might have to attend just a little longer than anticipated. In a current interview with Variety, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed his technique for making a follow-up season.

The Ok-drama has turn out to be the very first to rank as Netflix’s top show in the U.S., grabbing the highest slot and sustaining a 4 day streak because the streamer’s high performer. Launched on Sept. 17, the present has rapidly turn out to be a large hit — so standard, in reality, that it’s at present on monitor to dethrone Bridgerton as Netflix’s most popular show of all time.

The puzzling premise? An entire slew of strangers, lots of of oldsters, are invited to compete in “The Sport.” In the event that they need to win a large money prize, they’ll must compete in life or loss of life youngsters’s video games in a Willy Wonka-Esque dreamworld the place just one challenger can come out alive. With out spoilers, the ending to the show is imprecise sufficient that it may name for a sequel; nonetheless, it’s additionally conclusive sufficient to be thought of a wrap. However with viewers hankering for extra Squid Sport, Hwang gave phrase on the potential of Season 2.

“I don’t have nicely developed plans for Squid Sport 2,” he stated. “It’s fairly tiring simply fascinated by it. But when I have been to do it, I will surely not do it alone. I’d think about using a writers’ room and would need a number of skilled administrators.”

Effectively, there’s some good and unhealthy information there! Whereas it might take awhile, at the very least Hwang is committing himself to the easiest of the perfect, with regards to creators. In the intervening time, the filmmaker says he plans on returning to function movies for a bit earlier than making a Squid Sport sequel. In the intervening time, Hwang is penning a script for a function that’s tentatively titled KO Membership, which is brief for Killing Previous Males Membership, which can be about an “inter-generational conflict.”

Talking of function movies, Hwang additionally revealed that Squid Sport was troublesome to jot down as a TV present, because the creator is extra used to writing films. Recognized for his work in writing and directing movies like My Father, Silenced, Miss Granny, and The Fortress, Hwang made his first main foray into sequence with Squid Sport.

“In my earlier days, I’d drink half a bottle of soju to get the inventive juices flowing. I can’t do this any extra,” Hwang stated. “Writing was tougher than regular for me because it was a sequence, not a movie. It took me six months to jot down and rewrite the primary two episodes. Then I consulted verbally with buddies, and picked up clues for enhancements by way of my very own pitching and from their responses.”

Netflix, time to order Hwang one other spherical of soju — we want Squid Sport Season 2!

Stream Squid Game on Netflix