- “Squid Game” was a large hit for Netflix, which greenlight a second and third season.
- Its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, stated he is “exhausted” after engaged on the present and desires a break.
- Netflix has spun off “Squid Game” right into a actuality collection, in-person experiences, and a online game.
After “Squid Game” grew to become a worldwide sensation in 2021, Netflix invested huge time within the collection and the franchise — and after engaged on the present’s second and third seasons, its creator is prepared for a break.
“I’m so exhausted. I’m so drained,” Hwang Dong-hyuk, the mastermind behind the present, advised Variety. “In a means, I’ve to say, I’m so sick of ‘Squid Game.’ I’m so sick of my life making one thing, selling one thing. So I’m not fascinated with my subsequent venture proper now.”
He added: “I’m simply fascinated with going to some distant island and having my very own free time with none telephone calls from Netflix.”
“Squid Game,” a Korean-language collection, captured international audiences three years in the past with brilliant, childlike aesthetics juxtaposed towards a gripping, lethal story.
Unable to supply for himself or his mom’s medical care, Seong Gi-hun, a divorced dad, indicators on to a recreation the place individuals in heavy quantities of debt play youngsters’s video games in pursuit of a forty five.6 billion gained money prize. To achieve this, they wager their lives: Losing a recreation means immediate loss of life. Seong, performed by Lee Jung-jae, survives, however the different 455 gamers do not — and on the finish of season one, he units off to close down the video games himself.
The collection was a large hit for Netflix, to the tune of 330 million viewers and a couple of.8 billion hours seen so far, based on Variety. Bloomberg reported a month after season one’s premiere in October 2021 that Netflix estimated the collection would make the corporate $900 million. The first season was critically profitable as effectively: The present was nominated for 14 Emmy awards and gained six, together with excellent directing for a drama collection for Hwang and excellent lead actor in a drama collection for Lee.
In the three-year hole between seasons one and two, the streaming platform has capitalized on the property, spinning off the “Squid Game” franchise into the truth collection “Squid Game: The Challenge” and in-person experiences the place individuals can play by means of nondeadly variations of the video games with their buddies. This 12 months, Netflix launched the online game “Squid Game: Unleashed” and made it accessible to nonsubscribers.
Hwang has been saved within the loop on these “Squid Game” tasks and consults on potential on-screen continuations of the franchise, Variety stated. However, he advised the publication that he was extra involved with ending the primary collection.
He advised Entertainment Weekly he’d meant seasons two and three to be one story however needed to cut up them in two due to what would have been a prolonged episode depend. The second and third seasons have been filmed back-to-back, and season three is predicted in 2025.
It’s a number of work for a creator who did not anticipate he’d be doing a second season in any respect.
“I had no intention of doing a second season,” Hwang stated, “as a result of the general technique of writing, producing, and directing the collection was so difficult.”
