In Season 2, player 456 returns to deadly games

The first trailer for the second season of Squid Game has been released, pushing viewers back into the deadly arena where Player 456 has returned to play again.

Three years after his victory in the deadly series of children’s games, Seong Gi-hun, played by actor Lee Jung-jae, returns as Player 456 and is joined by hundreds of new competitors – and tries to lead them to safety.

The first season of the South Korean drama followed a group of 456 people, desperate and in debt, who fought to the death for a huge cash prize.

It became from Netflix largest series launch everstreamed by 111 million users in the first 28 days.

The trailer opens as the sinister masked guards welcome a new cast of characters to the competition.

They are sent out for their first game, also known from season one: Red Light Green Light.

In the game, players must get to the finish line while a giant mechanical doll has its back turned and freezes when it turns around – otherwise it will be shot dead.

Gi-hun barely survived the match in season one, launching himself over the finish line and this time trying to get the players to safety.

But the situation takes a deadly turn when a player moves after being told a bee has landed on her, and is then shot in the head.

As in season one, players can vote to stop the game or continue playing. While Gi-hun encourages them to focus on “getting out of here”, the players ignore his pleas.

“One more game,” they sing, as the cash prize fills a giant piggy bank dangling above them.

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said, “Gi-hun’s attempt to find out who these people are and why they do what they do is the core story of season two.”

He told Reuters news agency that the season would feature “more intriguing games” and a larger cast of characters than the debut season.

Also returning are the black-masked mysterious Front Man, who oversees the games, and Hwang Jun-ho, the police detective who broke into the games last season to search for his missing brother.

Hwang Dong-hyuk previously said he felt “a lot of pressure” to make season two “even better” after the show’s great success.

According to Netflix, viewers watched 1.65 billion hours of Squid Game in its first four weeks.

It followed the streaming giant’s efforts to expand its lineup of international shows investing in South Korean dramas.

This time around, Netflix hopes to mirror the success of season one as it comes under pressure to show what will drive growth in the coming years. because the already enormous reach makes finding new subscribers more difficult.

Netflix has announced that the final, third season of Squid Game will be released in 2025.

The second series of Squid Game will be released on Netflix on December 26, 2024.