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Squid Game Season 2 Will Grace Our Screens This December

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The Front Man is ready, are you? Netflix officially confirmed Squid Game season 2 is coming back on our screens on December 26, 2024.

The streaming site first announced the return of this highly anticipated survival show in June 2022 and since then, fans have been abuzz with excitement. At the Netflix Tudum event held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 17, it was announced that new actors would be joining the cast along with season 1 veterans.

Here’s all we know about Squid Game season 2 so far

New actors joining the season 2 cast

After breaking Netflix records with season 1, the second instalment of Squid Game is almost here, and the notorious games have new players. Besides the principal actors — Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun and Gong Yoo — four new actors have joined the cast. They are Yim Si-wan, Park Sung-hoon, Kang Ha-neul and Yang Dong-eun. However, the character names and their roles are still kept under wraps.

Hwang Dong-hyuk will helm the project as well as write it. He will also serve as an executive producer along with Kim Ji-yeon.

When is Squid Game season 2 releasing?

In a letter to fans and the global audience, Hwang said, “It took 12 years to bring the first season of Squid Game to life last year. But it took 12 days for Squid Game to become the most popular Netflix series ever.”

Squid Game season 2 will premiere on Dec 26, 2024. Additionally, its reality TV counterpart Squid Game: The Challenge has also been renewed for season 2. Global casting for the game is on, with aspiring participants eager to get their hands on the life-changing USD 4.56 million prize money.

What to expect in Squid Game season 2

Squid Game
Image: Courtesy IMDb

The 14-second teaser reveals that Gong-Yoo will be back playing the role of the salesman or casting crew of the game. Fans are excited to see more of the character, as he only received a cameo role last season.

In November 2021, Hwang hinted that Squid Game season 2 will focus on the lead character of Seong Gi-hun, played by illustrious actor Lee Jung-jae. “But I do think it’s too early to say when and how that’s going to happen. So, I will promise you this…Gi-hun will come back. He’ll do something for the world,” he said.

Fans can also expect to discover more about the character known as the Front Man, which was played by the internationally renowned South Korean superstar Lee Byung-hun.

Squid Game season 1: Stats and how it ended

Squid Game, which debuted on 17 September 2021, is one of Netflix’s most-watched original series. According to Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings, the show was watched for over 3 billion minutes during the week of 4 October 2021.

In the first season, 456 people struggling with finances are selected to participate in a series of games. The prize for the “winner” is KRW 45.6 billion. The games that the participants have to play are basically children’s games. What turns them into survival games is a twist in each of them where the losers die. The first season ended on a cliffhanger, which left room for further exploration of the main character who won the deadly game he was forced to participate in.

Squid Game: A juggernaut on the awards circuit

Since its release, the series and its principal actors have won several awards in 2022.

Squid Game is the first series in a language other than English to receive the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards. Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung also won the SAG for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, respectively, becoming the first Korean actors to do so.

For the series, Lee also became the first Asian to win the Critics Choice Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. O Yeong-su, another main actor in the series, became the first South Korean to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in Television.

(Hero and feature image: Courtesy Squid Game/ Photo by Noh Juhan | Netflix/ IMDb)

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