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Player 456 Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, returns in his iconic green tracksuit in the second season.
The first trailer for Squid Game's second season has been released, throwing viewers back into the deadly arena where champion Seong Gi-hun has returned to play.
Three years after his victory in the deadly children's game series, Gi-hun returns as player 456 and is joined by hundreds of new players – and attempts to lead them to safety.
The first season of the South Korean drama followed a group of 456 people, desperate and in debt, fighting to the death for a huge cash prize.
It's Netflix's biggest ever series launch, streaming to 111 million users in its first 28 days.
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The trailer opens as the sinister masked guards welcome a new group of characters into the competition.
They are sent for their first match, also familiar from the first season: Red Light Green Light.
Despite Gi-hun's efforts to get the players across the finish line safely, things take a deadly turn.
As in the first season, players can vote to stop the game or continue playing. As Gi-hun encourages them to focus on “getting out of this place,” the players ignore his pleas.
“One more game,” they chant, as the cash prize fills a giant piggy bank suspended above them.
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Gi-hun tries to encourage the other players to vote to end the game.
Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said, “Gi-hun’s efforts to find out who these people are and why they do what they do are at the heart of the story of season two. »
Also returning are the mysterious black-masked Front Man, who oversees the games, and Hwang Jun-ho, the police detective who burst into the games last season to search for his missing brother.
Dong-hyuk previously said he felt “a lot of pressure” on how to make season two “even better” after the show's runaway success.
Netflix also announced that the final third season will be released in 2025.
The second series of Squid Game will be released on Netflix on December 26, 2024.
