It's officially the green light: "The squid Game," Netflix's top 2021, will be getting Season 2, co-CEO and content manager Ted Sarandos has confirmed.
In a Netflix interview for the fourth quarter of 2021 earnings, Sarandos was asked if there would be a second season for the violent South Korean survival drama, which he won as the company's most-watched TV series.
"Of course," replied Sarandos. "The 'Squid Game' atmosphere has just begun."
He has placed the "Squid Game" in the Netflix category of the growing flowers of the entertainment franchise company which the company sees as a potential for growth without a major streaming service, live experience, games and assets.
Earlier, the creator of "squid Game" Hwang Dong-hyuk had announced that the hottest series would return for Season 2.
“There was a lot of pressure, a lot of demand and a lot of love for the second season. So I almost feel like giving up! ” Hwang told AP last fall. “But I will definitely say it will be the second season. It's in my head right now. I'm in the planning process right now. ”
Hwang also said that the main character Lee Jung-Jae will return as the main character of the "squid Game", Seong Gi-hun.
"Squid Game" is a long-running TV show on Netflix, based on the number of broadcasters that subscribers worldwide broadcast 1.65 billion hours in the series in the first 28 days of its release on the platform. In Season 1, 456 winners have been invited by a mysterious organization to compete in a series of children's games - with deadly results - to win a prize pool of ₩ 45.6 billion prizes (approximately $ 38.5 million).
The series made history at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards for being the first non-English-language series and the first Korean series to find nominees, actors in a drama series, actors in a drama series (Lee Jung-Jae), actors. in a drama series (Jung Ho-Yeon), and a stunt ensemble.
In addition, the squid Game won three Golden Globe Awards, including the best TV drama, and won the O Yeong-su award for the supporting character. The program also received three nominees for the Critics Choice Awards and a Gotham Award for the series.
Netflix paid $ 21.4 million for the first season of the "squid Game" and estimated that the series would bring $ 891 million to what it called "impact value," with confidential internal data leaked to Bloomberg.
By the end of 2021, Netflix has garnered 221.8 million subscribers worldwide. But shares of a paid broadcast leader fell Thursday after the company predicted slower growth than expected for Q1 subscribers and acknowledged that competitors could jeopardize customer acquisition.
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