Squid Game season 2 is likely going to be streaming on Netflix before the✱ end 🍸of 2024. Well, if creator-director Hwang Dong-hyuk has anything to do with it, anyway.

The SAG Award-winning Korean thriller's first season, which was released in September 2021, proved a huge hit for the streaming service, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:surpassing ဣBridgerton a🌌s its most-watched show. Comb🌱ine that with the fact that it essentially ended on a cliffhanger, it's no surprise that the creatives behind it want to keep riding that wave. 

, Hwang revealed that he has just finished the 25-page treatment of his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"violent" adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel Killing Old People Club, and that he's n𝄹ow free to return to South Korea to write the latter's second installment. He also explained that he's looking to premꦚiere it within the next couple of years.

If there's any🤡one who knows that patience is a virtue, it's Hwang, who first conjured up the ide🐟a for Squid Game way back in 2009.

"I knew that maybe in the near future the right time for this time for the material. I waited and 𒅌waited, and I made like three features," the filmmaker told the publication, noting how he and his team pitched to Netflix after the platform was launched in South Korea iꩵn 2016. "When I showed it to my producer, she said 'Yeah, you have to make it in the States, like, in a foreign country, not in Korea, because it's more like a global show."

Squid Game follows Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced gambling addict who accepts a mysterious invitation to compete i𒈔n an exclusive contest. There, it's explained that he and the hundreds of other players can only advance in the process by beating their opponents in levels revolved around classic children's games. And if they don't win each round? Well, there are deadly consequences.

Gong Yoo൩, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, O Yeong-su, Anupam Tripathi, Heo ﷽Sung-tae, and HoYeon Jung also star.

Squid Game season 1 is available to stream now. While we wait for new episodes, check out our list of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix shows to watch right now.