Squid Game season 2's first trailer shows player 456 returning to the lion's den, as the creator basically confirms an English-language adaptation
Squid Game's second season has a new trailer, and if you haven't watched the first then do yourself a favour and avoid spoiling it. Netflix's biggest-ever launch and a global smash hit, Squid Game followed 456 indebted competitors taking part in a series of deadly childrens' games for huge cash prizes, all observed and controlled by a shadowy cabal of, basically, rich sadists.
The first season ended with the victory of player 456 Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, who walks away with a giant cash prize that should solve all his life issues: but he's so traumatised by what he's experienced he vows revenge. Squid Game 2 is set three years after the first series and sees Gi-hun return to the games alongside new competitors, with the trailer focusing on how competitors can vote after each game to end the events or continue for bigger prizes: Gi-hun is desperately trying to help his fellow players and make them understand the nature of the games, but not entirely successfully.
We see the familiar masked guards and the first game, a repeat of season one: Red Light Green Light. A giant doll stands at the end of an arena, facing backwards, and competitors must advance towards it: But stop when the doll turns. We see Gi-hun trying to tell players how this works, before a woman panics thanks to a bee, and is promptly shot through the head. We subsequently see Gi-hun tell the competitors he's been here before and they have to get out, but some don't believe him, some think he's a plant, and others simply remain focused on the huge suspended piggy bank of cash.
In Season 2 Gi-hun, who survived Season 1, returns to the games, not to win this time around, but to put an end to these games," Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game's writer, director and producer, told Reuters. «There is going to be a larger number of characters this time and more intriguing games that are all worthy of a lot of the viewers' love and support.»
«Gi-hun is a very different person in Season 2,» said actor Lee
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