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‘Squid Game’ season 2 not before late 2024: creator
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Megahit creator: South Korean director Hwang Dong-Hyuk poses during the Squid Game photocall as part of the fifth Cannes International Series Festival (Canneseries) in Cannes, southern France on Monday. (AFP/Valery Hache)
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ans of Squid Game had better not be holding their breath: creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has yet to write the script for season two and said on Monday it would likely not be released before late 2024.
"I have to work on season two. Hopefully I can show it to the fans by the end of 2024," the South Korean writer-director said at the MIPTV festival in Cannes in the south of France.
A day earlier at the adjoining Canneseries festival, he had admitted to writing only three pages of the script for the follow-up to the violent mega-hit.
Squid Game features contestants from marginalized parts of society competing in traditional South Korean children's games for money — with the losers put to death.
Netflix said in October that 142 million subscribers had watched the show — some two-thirds of its users — a record that demands a second series.
But Hwang originally wrote the show as a feature film in 2009 and was only convinced to make a TV series after Netflix arrived in South Korea in 2016.
He said reworking the script for seven months was not pleasant.
