‘Squid Game’ Creator Says Season 2 Will See Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun ‘Returning Once Again’ to ‘Stop This Unjust Game’
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Squid Game” writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and two of the show’s stars, Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun, made the trek to Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games on Thursday and revealed new details of the hit Netflix series’ second season.
Asked about what fans of the mega-hit Korean-language survival drama should expect, Hwang teased the “biggest difference” between the first and second seasons. “If Season 1 was about the story of Gi-hun [Lee], or player no.
456, entering Squid Game for the first time and about how he survives and leaves the game as a winner, Season 2 is going to be about Gi-hun [being] faced with his memories of the first game — the experiences of going through a new realization and awakening and returning once again to the game in order to stop this unjust game,” he said.
Hwang — who was the first Asian to win an Emmy for outstanding directing in a drama series — also told the crowd of mainly Italian fans, who packed Lucca’s 17th century Teatro del Giglio to the rafters, that the second season will feature two Italian songs: Giacomo Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma,” from the opera “Turandot,” and “Time to Say Goodbye” (aka “Con te partirò”) performed by Andrea Bocelli.
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