Squid Game season 2 won't be out until 2024

The Korean thriller Squid Game had created a massive buzz all across the globe since its release. It was on the top watch list and had broken many records as well. 

Fans of Squid Game should not sit in hope as of now because the second season's script is still to be written, and director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that it will most likely not be aired until late 2024.

"I need to get back to work on season two. Hopefully, by the end of 2024, I'll be able to reveal it to the viewers At the MIPTV festival in Cannes, France",

the South Korean writer-director stated.

He had acknowledged a day earlier at the Canneseries festival that he had only written three pages of the script for the sequel to the violent mega-hit.

Squid Game portrays players from the margins of society competing for money in traditional South Korean kid's games, with the loser being shot. In October, Netflix stated that 142 million customers (about two-thirds of its total users) had seen the show, a record that necessitates a second season.

Meanwhile, Hwang initially scripted the series as a motion picture in 2009, and it was only until Netflix came to South Korea in 2016 that he was persuaded to turn it into a TV series.

It was not easy for him to rewrite the screenplay for seven months, he claimed.

"It was a living horror. Season two could be my final season", 

he remarked, laughing. However, success brought Hwang the opportunity to meet his hero, Steven Spielberg, who informed him that he had binge-watched the entire show in three days. 

Fans were eagerly waiting for Season 2 but now it looks like they will have to wait longer.