Squid Sport season 2 not earlier than late 2024: Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk – Instances of India

Followers of “Squid Sport” had higher not be holding their breath: creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has but to put in writing the script for season two and stated Monday it will probably not be launched earlier than late 2024.

“I’ve to work on season two. Hopefully I can present it to the followers by the top of 2024,” the South Korean writer-director stated on the MIPTV competition in Cannes within the south of France.

A day earlier on the adjoining Canneseries competition, he had admitted to writing solely three pages of the script for the follow-up to the violent mega-hit.

“Squid Sport” options contestants from marginalised elements of society competing in conventional South Korean kids’s video games for cash — with the losers put to loss of life.

Netflix stated in October that 142 million subscribers had watched the present — some two-thirds of its customers — a file that calls for a second collection.

However Hwang initially wrote the present as a characteristic movie in 2009 and was solely satisfied to make a TV collection after Netflix arrived in South Korea in 2016.

He stated transforming the script for seven months was not nice.

“It was hell. Perhaps season two will likely be my final collection,” he stated with amusing.

There have been loads of advantages to success, nonetheless, with Hwang getting an opportunity to satisfy his “idol”, Steven Spielberg, who informed him he had binged the entire present in three days.

“He stated he needed to steal my mind,” Hwang stated.

Hwang can be engaged on a movie that sounds not too far faraway from his hit present.

“KO Membership” is a movie about killing previous individuals, based mostly on a ebook by Italian creator Umberto Eco.

Hwang stated it was “much more violent than Squid Sport”.

“I might want to avoid aged individuals after its launch,” he added.