The fans of Squid Game will have to take their troubles patiently: its creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has yet to write the script for season 2, which he hopes to be able to unveil to the public by “at the end of the year 2024”he announced Monday, April 4 in Cannes.
“I have to work on season 2, I hope it will be finished by the end of 2024, hopefully I can show it to the fans by the end of 2024. year 2024”, declared the South Korean screenwriter and director, questioned about his future projects in front of an audience of audiovisual professionals gathered at MIPTV (international television market). The day before, he had announced to screenwriters, brought together by the Canneseries festival, to have written only “three pages” of season 2 of his series-phenomenon, carton de l’automne on Netflix.
Squid Game features hundreds of characters from the most marginalized sections of South Korea, participating in traditional children’s games, such as “1-2-3 sun”, to win a huge sum of money. The losers are killed as the trials progress.
Very violent, the series met with global success: it was seen by more than 142 million Netflix subscribers in mid-October 2021, one month after its release, or some two-thirds of users. A record that warranted a sequel.
But Hwang Dong-hyuk originally wrote his series as a feature film in 2009. “in his computer for ten years”, his story that no one wanted finally won over the streaming platform, which arrived in South Korea in 2016, he explained.
The creator explained that he suffered while reworking his script during “seven months”the filming having lasted “eight months”. “It was hell. Maybe season 2 will be my last series”, he joked. The game was worth the candle: filmmaker Steven Spielberg, his “idol”, recently confessed to him having watched his series “in three days” and want him “steal (his) brain”, he reported.
After Squid Gamethe South Korean will work on another project, a film this time and already described in “25 pages”, called KO Club for Killing old men club, whose plot is about “kill old people”. Inspired by a book by the Italian Umberto Eco, this other “controversial movie” will be “even more violent than Squid Game“, warned Hwang Dong-hyuk, who could “keep away from the elderly after discharge”.