- I have to work on season two.
Hopefully I can show it to the fans by the end of 2024, said the South Korean screenwriter and director.
By October 2021, according to Netflix's own figures, 142 million subscribers - about two-thirds of streaming service users - had seen the bloody drama series.
A record that of course requires a sequel.
Hwang originally wrote the script as a feature film in 2009, but was persuaded to make a TV series after Netflix entered South Korea in 2016. He says it was not a pleasant experience to rework the script for seven months.
- It was hell.
Maybe season two will be my last series, he says and laughs.
Hwang also reveals that he is working on a film that obviously has some similarities with the hit series.
- KO Club is a film about killing old people based on a book by the Italian author Umberto Eco.
According to Hwang, it is even more violent than Squid Game.
- I will have to avoid older people after it has been released, he says.
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