Netflix’s most-watched series is set to return. Today’s TUDUM global event teased the first look at the second season of the international hit series Squid Game, according to Comicbook. The series is currently in production and announced returning as well as new cast members joining the game this time around. View the teaser below.
The second season will see the return of star Lee Jung-Jae (The Hunt, The Acolyte) as the miserable winner, Seong Ji-Hun. The first season concluded with Ji-Hun vowing to return to the game, putting a stop to the Front Man’s treachery. Lee Byung-Hun (I Saw the Devil, Emergency Declaration) returns as the masked Front Man who kept the dangerous game afoot. The last time viewers saw him, he had shot a police officer who had infiltrated the island. This officer was his brother, Hwang Jun-Ho, played by Wi Ha-Jun (Midnight, Bad and Crazy). Ha-Jun is set to return in the role along with the illusive recruiter in the suit, played by Gong Yoo (Train to Busan, The Silent Sea).
According to Comicbook, four new actors have joined the series: Yang Dong-Guen (Night of the Undead, Nonstop), singer Yim Si-Wan (Hell is Other People, Run On), Park Sung-Hoon (Three Days, Rich Man), and Kang Ha-Neul (Curtain Call, Midnight Runners). No word on who they will be playing.
Squid Game is an award-winning thriller drama series written by Hwang Dong-hyuk (The Fortress, Silenced). The show follows Lee’s Seong Ji-Hun, a divorced father and terrible gambler that finds himself at wit’s end when his ex-wife announces she and their daughter are moving to the United States with her new gainfully employed husband. In order to pay his debts and win his daughter’s heart, he agrees to participate in a mysterious set of games for a large sum of money. The bounty increases as more people lose, but those who lose die.
According to Comicbook, no release window was announced during the TUDUM event. Season one of Squid Game is available exclusively on Netflix. Fans can also anticipate news on the forthcoming Squid Game: The Challenge, which sees the sorted trials come to life in a competition series.