The creator of Squid Game offers a few interesting Season 3 snippets

Squid game Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on December 26, and with the third and final season arriving later this year, it’s no surprise that it will end on a cliffhanger. Painful cliffhanger. While fans wait to see what lies ahead for Seong Gi-hun – also known as Player 456, played by Lee Jung-jae – and Other survivors, Squid game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk delivers some carefully chosen words that will likely be the only clues we can understand until more episodes arrive.

talking to Hollywood ReporterHuang allowed it Squid gameThe final third of the game will focus on the two characters you expect most: Gi-hun, of course, too Front man Lee Byung Hun. The latter made his way into the game as 001 player and on occasion barely He seems sympathetic to Ji Hoon’s desire to demolish the competition once and for all. However, as the Season 2 finale clearly showed, he’s secretly not a good guy. He’s still a cold-blooded killer, still clinging to his evil priorities.

Or is he? When asked if there’s hope for the front man, all Hwang will say is, “You can see it in Season 3. There’s an answer to that question.”

Ending Season 2 in such a bleak place — with Ji Hoon’s player rebellion wiped out, and he still doesn’t know that the front man has been playing with him the whole time — was a deliberate choice to set up Season 3. Ji-hoon’s failures along the way led to the huge loss of His best friend, Gamer 390. “I wanted to end Season 2 at that very moment, and then start the next season from that space of experiencing a great deal of guilt and defeat,” Hwang said. “I wanted to see where this would lead Ji Hoon going.”

He continued. “Season 3 will really explore this feeling of loss and failure, this feeling of guilt that weighs on Ji Hoon. How will he navigate the story further with all that weighing on his mind? I personally see Season 3 as the end to this story. And that’s because I think I’ve finished The story I wanted to tell about society through Seung Ji Hoon’s character If I Wanted to Return to the World Squid gameit will be about different characters with a different story. Maybe some kind of spin-off.

One character we won’t see again (unless there’s some sort of prequel) is Thanos, the fan-favorite villain played by Choi Sung-hyun, also known as former K-pop star Top Hwang. He feels your pain, but he confirmed to THR that Thanos He will not be easily forgotten. “He’s one of my favorite characters too! I think it was the right time to say goodbye to him… It was so intense, it was just the right way at exactly the right time for him. The way he leaves the story, if you watch it all the way to Season 3, you feel as if That it still exists in some ways in terms of how it affects the plot.

Squid game Seasons 1 and 2 are now available on Netflix; Season 3 is scheduled to be released sometime in 2025.

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