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Liam Gilliver

Squid Game season two - director hints at dark twist for main character Gi-hun

Squid Game took the world by storm earlier this year, breaking records and officially becoming Netflix's most popular series launch of all time.

The controversial Korean drama, which raked up a staggering 100million views in its first month, sees desperate players compete in a series of childhood games to win £27 million in prize money. However, losers are killed on the spot - and things get a little graphic.

If renewed for a second season, Squid Game's disturbing twists may get even worse...

The show's director Hwang Dong-hyuk recently teased how the story could continue in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly - focusing particularly on protagonist Gi-hun.

"I'm not really in the right place to be discussing season 2 in an official setting, but if there were to be a season 2, in the first season that we saw Gi-hun is a character whose humanity is shown through or exposed in certain situations," Hwang said.

"In other words, his humanity is shown through a very passive manner. But I would think that in the second season, what he has learned from the games and his experience in the first season, they will all be put to use in a more active manner...

"As for the Front Man, who was also a past winner but became a Front Man, it's like Darth Vader. Some end up Jedi and some become Darth Vader. I think that maybe Gi-hun will go through a certain critical point where he is put through a test as well."

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