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  • Squid Game creator reveals season 2 particulars: ‘Humanity is going to be put to a test through those games once again’

    Squid Game was one among 2021’s largest exhibits. Naturally, Netflix wished a second season and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is difficult at work. Now, he has revealed the primary replace concerning the present’s sophomore outing.

    He was requested in a Vanity Fair piece about what particulars he can reveal about it. He responded by saying, “Humanity is going to be put to a test through those games once again.”

    The present turned a world phenomenon, and received a number of accolades. It was based mostly on a Hunger Games-like competitors, the titular Squid Game, that lures in frequent people who find themselves in debt and guarantees them a great deal of cash upon successful.

    But the results of shedding are lethal — actually. Anyone who doesn’t progress to the following spherical finally ends up lifeless.

    The collection was praised for its themes just like the perils of unchecked capitalism, the oppression of decrease lessons in fashionable capitalistic societies and the dog-eat-dog world we dwell in.

    Hwang added, “I want to ask the question [in the second season], ‘Is true solidarity between humans possible?’” It is intelligent of him to depart a bit from the unique season’s themes as in any other case the second entry would appear like a re-tread.

    Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, HoYeon Jung, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung featured within the present’s forged. Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun was the first protagonist of the primary season and went on to win the sport. At the top of the season, he was seen abandoning a flight to see his daughter and get revenge on the makers of Squid Game.

  • ‘Squid Game’ director engaged on movie ‘extra violent’ than international hit collection

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: ‘Squid Game’ director Hwang Dong-hyuk has introduced that he is growing ‘Killing Old People Club’, a brand new movie impressed by a novel penned by Umberto Eco, the revered Italian mental and essayist, reviews ‘Variety’.

    Speaking throughout a session at MipTV alongside along with his producer Jun Young Jang at February Films, Dong-hyuk revealed he had already penned a 25-page remedy notice in regards to the mission, which is able to certainly be “another controversial film”, as he put it.

    “It will be more violent than ‘Squid Game’,” teased Dong-hyuk, including that he might need to cover from previous individuals after the movie comes out. The mission has the working title ‘Okay.O. Club’, based on ‘Variety’.

    The critically acclaimed creator mentioned he’ll now return dwelling to South Korea to put in writing the second season of ‘Squid Game’ and hopes to have the present stream on Netflix by the top of 2024.

    Dong-hyuk mentioned the most important reward he bought about his superhit Netflix present got here from Steven Spielberg, who informed him he wished to “steal (his) brain”.

    Dong-hyuk mentioned he had met Spielberg in the course of the AFI Awards Luncheon final month. “Steven Spielberg told me, ‘I watched your whole show in three days and now I want to steal your brain!,” the Korean director recounted, based on ‘Variety’.

    “It was like the biggest compliment I ever got in my life because he’s my film hero. I grew up watching his movies.”

  • Netflix confirms renewal of ‘Squid Game’ for second season

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Get able to deep dive into the world of Squid Game as soon as once more. The streaming big Netflix has formally renewed the favored present for its second season.

    As per Variety, Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content material officer, Ted Sarandos, confirmed season 2 throughout Netflix’s fourth-quarter 2021 earnings interview.

    “Absolutely, the ‘Squid Game’ universe has just begun,” Sarandos responded when requested whether or not there can be a second season of the South Korean survival drama.

    Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the primary season featured an ensemble forged together with Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Jung Hoyeon, and Oh Yeong-su. In the present 456 cash-strapped contestants are invited by a mysterious group to compete in a sequence of kids’s video games with lethal penalties to win round USD 38.5 million.

    The present just lately registered a giant win on the Golden Globe Awards.

  • ‘Squid Game’ creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk expresses pleasure on present’s Screen Actors Guild nominations

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: “Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk says it’s the “happiest moment” of his profession to see his Netflix present’s obtain 4 nominations on the twenty eighth Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.

    The Korean language present bagged nominations within the tv classes for finest drama ensemble, finest stunt ensemble, finest actor for Lee Jung-jae and finest feminine actor for Jung Ho-yeon. The survival drama collection was one of many greatest reveals from the streaming service final yr.

    It clocked over 100 million views in lower than a month of its debut in September 2021. “As the director of ‘Squid Game’, today has to be the happiest moment. I am reminded of all the days spent on first meetings with the cast, the auditions, visiting theaters to see their performances, the script readings, rehearsals and the days on set… I want to truly thank not only the cast who have been nominated today but also all of the supporting and the near-300 background talent. ‘Squid Game’ would never have been what it became without the devotion and hard work of every single one of you. You deserve all the glory and credit,” Hwang mentioned in an announcement to Entertainment Weekly.

    The nine-part present follows 456 individuals fighting debt in Seoul who signal on to play a collection of lethal competitions based mostly on Korean youngsters’s video games, the winner of which can obtain 45.6 billion received (USD 38 million).

    It featured Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-jun, Jung Ho-yeon, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung. Lee Jung-jae, who performed the present’s protagonist Seong Gi-hun or participant quantity 456, mentioned he was “speechless and beyond excited” to be nominated for a SAG Award.

    “I vividly remember the precious moments we shared together, putting in all the hard work to film the intense six rounds of games. On top of the unforgettable memories we shared, today’s SAG Awards nominations will forever be remembered as a precious and touching moment. Thank you so much to the members of SAG-AFTRA. I am also so humbled and want to share this moment with all the fans of Squid Game who have faith in justice and love, we as people cherish,” the poplar actor mentioned.

    In finest actor (drama) class, Lee Jung-jae is nominated alongside “Succession” stars Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin and “The Morning Show” actor Billy Cudrup. Jung Ho-yeon, who performed Player 067 Kang Sae-byeok, mentioned she is “truly grateful” for her nomination.

    “I am truly excited for the best ensemble nomination, which has made all of our team’s time spent together on ‘Squid Game’ even more valuable. Working on this series, and acting for the first time, I thought about how creating something ‘together,’ and ‘as an ensemble’ just might be the true value of our society. I feel empowered to be reminded of how ‘together’ is more precious than a solo achievement. I am truly grateful! I’m also reminded of our best stunt team, being nominated for the best stunt ensemble nomination,” she mentioned.

    Jung Ho-yeon additionally despatched her finest needs to fellow nominees — Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston of “The Morning Show”, Sarah Snook of “Succession” and Elisabeth Moss of “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The 2022 ceremony of Screen Actors Guild Awards might be held on February 28.