With creator Hwang Dong-hyuk coming back for the series, he does have something to say about his highly anticipated show: “I’m so sick of ‘Squid Game’”

Talking to Variety about his next series, Hwang says, “I’m so exhausted. I’m so tired. In a way, I have to say, I’m so sick of ‘Squid Game,’… I’m so sick of my life making something, promoting something. So I’m not thinking about my next project right now. I’m just thinking about going to some remote island and having my own free time without any phone calls from Netflix—Not the ‘Squid Game’ island.”

Though the first season of the series did end with a cliffhanger, it has been confirmed that the second and third season of Squid Game had been shot back-to-back; this was done so that the third season would be ready to come out next year.

We don’t know exactly what to expect with the second season, but at least now fans know that the showrunners already have an ending in mind—so maybe any twists that would come their way would feel organic.

Despite the success of the first season, a lot of fans did think that the reveal of Oh Il-nam as the secret antagonist kind of just comes out of nowhere; and it also destroys any context of his relationship with Gi-hun during the games.

With Hwang not being shy about the pressure he’s received after the series’ success, I’m just hoping he manages to pull this off with no more hitches.

Watch out for Squid Game Season 2 when it releases on Netflix on Dec. 26.

Just in, we have a new featurette giving a closer look at all the new characters being introduced in the second season, and it also includes a group of young people called Thanos Team. Check this out:

Though most of the Squid Game characters are going to be new this season, there are some players who actually had minor roles in Season One; for example, Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) was in the first season as Gi-hun’s gambling buddy. He never got to participate in the game, but it looks like he’s going to be in the shit with Gi-hun now.

One character that also sparked controversy is Hyun-ju, a trans woman who is being played by a straight cis actor Park Sung-hoon. In the story, Hyun-ju is a former special forces member, and she joins the games to be able to pay for her gender-affirming surgery.

There are also a bunch of other colourful players, like a mother-son pairing, a North Korean defector, a shamed Youtube influencer, and a father with a daughter that has blood cancer.

While a lot of the new characters are desperate for money, there is one group of young kids who are described as people who don’t really care about the money, but are more in it for the thrill—and that’s Thanos team. Led by their rapper leader Thanos, it looks like they’re going to be one of the main antagonist groups in the season—a real problem for Gi-hun since he’s trying to get everyone to cooperate and finish the games.

So far, the new set of characters looks great, and it’s definitely going to be heartbreaking when we see some of them go.

Watch out for Squid Game Season 2 when it comes out on Netflix on Dec. 26.

Squid Game Season 2 is now ready to hit Netflix later this December, and we have a whole new trailer giving us an idea of what to expect. Watch this:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

Compared to the first game where Gi-hun is just as clueless as the rest of the participants, it looks like he’s going to be navigating the game differently this time, actually convincing others to not play the game as it was intended.

Of course, there are some characters that look to be disruptors to Gi-hun’s plan, but you can’t expect any excitement to come from the story if everyone just plays along.

The first season of the show was such a surprise hit that even director Hwang Dong-hyuk had been vocal about not expecting the audience reaction as well. Though it’s great that Squid Game was a hit, the pressure is now on for Hwang to deliver another fantastic season of adults doing playground games to save their own lives.

Hopefully, he’ll manage to stick the landing.

Watch out for Squid Game 2 when it comes to Netflix on Dec. 26.

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Here’s the official description for the second season:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

We never really knew how Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) planned to take down the games after he won, but it does look like he’s just going to join as a regular participant and try to convince everyone to stop playing the games by confirming that he’s a previous winner.

Admittedly, it doesn’t seem like the smartest plan on Gi-hun’s part, but maybe there’s some kind of mind game that he’s playing with the game masters; and him looking desperate was just part of his plan.

I’ll have to say I was one of the more sceptical people when a second season was announced, but it does seem that director Hwang Dong-hyuk had something planned for a follow-up. Let’s just hope that the series manages to captivate audiences just as much as the first one did.

Watch out for Squid Game 2 when it comes to Netflix on Dec. 26.

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As per the official announcement, the second season of Squid Game is set to hit Netflix on December 26. The video also came with a synopsis for the next season:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

It’s unclear what Gi-hun is planning by joining the game once again, but hopefully the series has found a way to tell another interesting story that doesn’t just repeat the beats of the first season.

I’ll admit, the plot of Squid Game does sound pretty familiar if you’ve seen these life-or-death-game-shows like Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, but the series manages to set itself apart by execution. Not only are the games uniquely brutal, but the characters are also great, and the series does have a very visual flair that makes for memorable onscreen moments.

I know a lot of people are excited for a second season, but I’m hoping director Hwang Dong-hyuk manages to pull it off again.

Catch the second season of Squid Game when it premieres on Netflix on Dec. 26.

According to The Playlist, David Fincher (Mindhunter, Se7en, Fight Club) has been hard at work developing a Squid Game adaptation for the past two years. Along for the ride is writer Dennis Kelly, who had worked with Fincher on Utopia before he ultimately left the project.

The English version of Squid Game could apparently be Fincher’s next directing gig, but it’s possible that it couldn’t push forward right now as the original series is still ongoing. Netflix head Ted Sarandos had said, “Since the main series is still ongoing, there’s no justified reason for Netflix to do a remake.”

Admittedly, I’m surprised that Fincher would take on a project like Squid Game, seeing that a lot of his more recent projects have been very dark and serious like Mindhunter and The Killer. Not that Squid Game doesn’t get dark; but the show does have a tendency to be more colorful, and the violence can sometimes get a bit too outlandish for a Fincher project.

Then again, if Fincher is able to give his own unique twist to the premise, I’d be open to see what he would come up with. Until it gets a greenlight, all we can really do is speculate.

The English adaptation of Squid Game has not been officially announced, and there’s no release date for the second season of the original show.

The show is set to premiere in a few weeks, and we have a new featurette putting the spotlight on Lee’s character Master Sol. Watch this:

Information has been slowly coming out about the series, and it looks like we’re going to be seeing two eras of Master Sol, one as an apprentice, and another as a fully realized Jedi. By the looks of it, the titular acolyte will have been Sol’s former padawan, and it will be up to him to stop her.

Though Jedi are always the noble good characters in Star Wars, it’s kind of implied that The Acolyte will be portraying them in a different light, this time giving us the point-of-view of a Sith character. If you’ve followed The Clone Wars, you’ll know that the Jedi’s downfalls have been explored in the series; and The Last Jedi really leaned into it when Luke Skywalker himself talked about how the hubris of the Jedi allowed for them to get wiped out.

Either way, Lee was great in Squid Game, and though Gi-hun was kind of a bumbling character, it’s going to be interesting to watch him be a Jedi this time. I don’t expect him to be the cleanest character either, but I guess we’ll just have to wait and see till the premiere.

Watch out for The Acolyte when it premieres on Disney+ on June 4.

“I just thought it would be good to have the perspective of a person that had literally never seen Star Wars until she was in the room,” Headland tells The Hollywood Reporter, “She said to me, ‘Why do you want me in this room? I’ve never seen Star Wars. I have no idea. I think there’s a dog in it, but I don’t know anything.’ And I was like, ‘First of all, you’re an incredible writer, but that’s why I want you here. I want you to be questioning narrative. I don’t want myself, who’s a lifelong fan, to just be relying on particular references in order to create emotional beats. I want those emotional beats to be earned and checked by someone that isn’t super familiar with it.’

If anything, some fans have been coming to realize that one doesn’t really need to be a fan of Star Wars to be able to do something great with it. Tony Gilroy has never said that he was a fan of the series, yet he’s delivered some great material with Andor and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Let’s also not forget the OG Star Wars icon who couldn’t care less about the franchise—Harrison Ford.

For now, everyone is waiting in anticipation for what The Acolyte has to deliver. With shows like Ahsoka being criticized for relying too much on fanservice, the comments from The Acolyte showrunner Headland makes me confident that we have an upcoming series that’s more focused on delivering a narrative as compared to a checklist for fans to tick boxes off of.

The Acolyte premieres on Disney+ on June 4.

Just in, Lucasfilm announces that they’ll be dropping their first trailer for the series, and we have a rather morbid poster to go along with the preview. Check this out:

Tomorrow. #TheAcolyte pic.twitter.com/ILIfVu11ve

— Star Wars (@starwars) March 18, 2024

“In an age of light, a darkness rises”

With the dark imagery of the poster, a lot of fans are convinced that this is one of the more mature stories that will be set in the Star Wars universe, unlike the more kid-friendly, fanservice-heavy shows like Ahsoka, The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Then again, it’s kind of too early to tell. We’ll just have to wait and see for the first trailer to drop to really get a good idea of what kind of approach the series is going to go for.

It’s also worth noting that the series is set during the High Republic era, which is a hundred years before the events of The Phantom Menace. We don’t have any High Republic-era material on live-action besides Acolyte, but you can learn all about that time period thanks to several comics and novels.

Here’s the synopsis (via @DiscussingFilm):

‘STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE’ follows an investigation into a crime spree that pits a respected Jedi Master (Lee Jung-jae) against a dangerous warrior from his past (Amandla Stenberg).

As clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems.

The Acolyte is set to premiere on Disney+ on June 4.

Talking to ScreenRant, Keen explains, “I can’t say much. I can say she’s an alien. She’s pretty cool, she’s pretty badass. She gets to play a bit with lightsabers, which is fun, which I loved and… It’s just an honor to be a Jedi.”

Exclusive: #TheAcolyte cast members Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, Jodie Turner-Smith, Joonas Suotamo, Dean-Charles Chapman, and Charlie Barnett share details about their #StarWars characters, including a Wookie Jedi Master and a powerful Force-wielder: https://t.co/qPF57nGNuP pic.twitter.com/FRgpLCZoZg

— Screen Rant (@screenrant) April 10, 2023

Considering how tightly Lucasfilm keeps a lid on their projects, Keen actually shared a lot of details about her character. With her playing the role of a tiny Wolverine in Logan, it would make sense to watch her do some more action again with a property like Star Wars.

Here’s the synopsis for The Acolyte:

“A former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.”

Besides Keen, the series has also gathered a cast which includes Jodie Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lee Jung-jae, and Manny Jacinto. The lead is also being played by Amandla Stenberg, and it’s still unclear whether her character is a Jedi or actually a Sith acolyte.

Hopefully we get more reveals soon. The Acolyte has no release date yet, but with the series currently filming, I’m expecting a premiere on Disney+ maybe later this year, or early 2024.

In an official announcement marking the beginning of production for The Acolyte, it’s been revealed that Carrie-Anne Moss has joined the cast. No details have been revealed about who anyone is playing, but I can already imagine Moss as an early Sith master or maybe a leader of the Night Sisters from that era. Either way, she’s a great talent and a fine addition to the cast.

Production has begun on “The Acolyte,” an upcoming Original Star Wars series from Lucasfilm coming to @DisneyPlus. pic.twitter.com/g6apnGXSmr

— Star Wars | Andor & Tales of the Jedi On Disney+ (@starwars) November 7, 2022

While no official breakdown of the story has been revealed, rumors are going around that it will focus on a former padawan reuniting with their master to solve a series of murders. We know that the Sith were generally considered extinct when the Prequel era starts, so maybe we could be looking at the order’s beginnings.

Though I can see Stenberg’s character playing both sides of the force, I really want to see Lee Jung-jae play some kind of Jedi. With his character in Squid Game being kind of a deadbeat, I would like to see some kind of jaded Jedi investigator who suddenly finds himself in the middle of some kind of conspiracy.

No release date has been set for The Acolyte yet, but you can catch Andor now screening on Disney+.

During an interview with KBS (via Soompi), Hwang Dong Hyuk revealed, “I’m currently in the midst of discussions with Netflix about Season 2 and Season 3 [of ‘Squid Game’].” It’s still unclear if the series has been greenlit, but he does say that the discussions are nearing an end. With Squid Game coming out as one of the most popular shows on Netflix in 2021, you can bet that a second season is going to happen regardless of the quality of story they have on their hands.

As for the plot, Hwang Dong Hyuk says that it will follow the story of Gi Hun (Lee Jung Jae) as he tries to unravel the mysteries of the organization. He says:

“The focus [of the season] will be the story of [Lee Jung Jae‘s character] Seong Gi Hun unraveling [the mysteries of the organization behind the game]… The overarching plotline of Season 2 will be the story of the people that Gi Hun meets and the people he chases after.”

Though Battle Royale movies are kind of played out (Hunger Games, the original Battle Royale), Squid Game has managed to captivate an audience with its striking visuals and easy-to-follow plot. Not to mention a great cast of characters that are great to watch clash with each other.

No release has been announced for a second season, but you can catch Squid Game now on Netflix.