Squid Game season 3: what we know so far about the hit Netflix show's return

Date:
Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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Squid Game season 3 returns in 2025, marking the final season of the hugely popular Netflix show. Here's everything we know about its return.

FULL STORY

- Releasing on Netflix sometime in 2025
- Comprised of six episodes
- No official trailer, but a mid-credit scene drops hints
- Predicted cast, though not confirmed
- Season 3 will be the shows last
- Hwang Dong-hyuk talks spin-offs and franchise

Squid Game season 3 is coming in 2025 and its arrival will mark the end of
the tremendously volatile and thought-provoking Netflix show.

It is, in fact, one of the best Netflix series available to watch on the best streaming service which broke Netflix records by bringing in 1.65 billion viewing hours for Squid Game season 1.

Squid Game invites 456 players to compete for a mouth-watering 4.56 million won prize. To win? Compete in childhood games. Sure, that sounds simple
enough, until the players learn about the deadly consequences. Player 456, Gi-hun, won the huge prize pot in season 1, but he was also the only player
to leave with their life. So, he returned to play again in Squid Game season
2 to exact revenge by teaming up with fellow players though we know how that turned out...

Season 3 was always on the cards way before season 2 even came out and so
the cast and crew shot back-to-back, hence the 2025 release date. We're glad
we don't have to wait much longer to see how the events of the season 2
finale unfold, but a wait is a wait regardless.

So, while we ponder the next move, theres plenty to know about Squid Game season 3 from release date, to expected cast, to plot synopsis news and
rumors, and more.

While viewers had to wait over three years for Squid Game season 2, the wait for season 3 isn't nearly as long. In fact, its been confirmed to hit Netflix in 2025. Given that season 2 came out in December 2024, that's a wait of less than a year we hope.

Thanks to a 2025 Golden Globes red carpet interview in January, Squid Game director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed to The Hollywood Reporter : Its coming. Its coming. Im working on it, so its coming soon. Sooner than you expect.

Plus, as reported by Forbes , the Netflix Korea YouTube channel had a video
go live that didnt just have the 2025 release date, but a specific date, June 27, 2025. While it was quickly removed, it didnt go unnoticed, though theres been no official confirmation from Netflix.

If we were to speculate then, wed say that with Dong-hyuk's words in mind and considering season 2 came out in late 2024, wed guess a late summer 2025 release date for season 3.

Squid Game season 3: has Netflix released a trailer?

There's no trailer for Squid Game season 3 right now. When there is, we'll be sure to update you here. Given that the season 2 trailer released a month before the show dropped on Netflix, we know it won't be until later this
year.

Squid Game season 3: who can we expect to return for the cast?

While theres no official news of the Squid Game season 3 cast, we have a
pretty good idea of who's returning although you never quite know how long
any given character will survive. Here's who we expect to return for Squid
Game season 3: Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun Lee Byung-hun as Hwang In-ho aka Front Man Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho Kang Ha-neul as Dae-ho Jo Yu-ri as Kim Jun-hee Park Sung-hoon as Hyun-ju Park Gyu-young as No-eul Lee David as
Min-su Chae Kook-hee as Seon-nyeo Kang Ae-sim as Jang Geum-ja Im Si-wan as
Lee Myung-gi Yang Dong-geun as Park Yong-sik Im Si-wan as Lee Myung-gi Oh Dal-su as Captain Park Roh Jae-won as Nam-gyu

It appears that season 3 is most definitely a continuation of season 2. Speaking to MSN , director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed the reason behind
splitting season 2 in half, rather than starting a new games: ...as I wrote
the story along, it became to be too many episodes and too long of a story because you see Gi-hun's journey where he returns to the game, but also he
goes through a revolt, and that is actually the climax of that storyline,
where he tries to create an uprising, but then that all goes to failure. And
I also saw that aspect of it as yet another game as well, and so I thought
that we would divide it into two seasons to have that.

He added: And to put a stop there, I thought that would just be the right adequate moment to rest and have it continue on in the further season because after Gi-hun experiences that event, based on the failure, as well as that immense sense of guilt, you're going to get yet another character arc from Gi-hun.

Viewers have watched as Gi-hun reigned victorious in season 1 and returned
full of vigor and fueled by revenge in season 2. But, by the end, he was left entirely depleted by his failed plan and loss of his friend. Hwang Dong-hyuks focus on Gi-hun going into season 3 ridden with guilt and failure seems to be the focal point.

Though we're also expecting more games and resolve

Seo-hwan, who played Gi-huns friend Jung-bae in season 2, revealed to RadioTimes.com where he feels season 3 will take Gi-hun next. But, he stipulates: I know nothing about season 3, but as a viewer and a fan myself,
I think there could be three possibilities.

Expanding on these possibilities, he said: One would be Gi-hun losing all
hope, and the second, him becoming even more vengeful. But the third possibility would be him becoming vengeful towards the players, not the
people behind the game.

While Jung-bae might not know the season 3 plot, returning player Jo Yu-ri,
who plays Jun-hee (Player 222) told Cinema Today : It seems like a lot of people have been predicting the contents of season 3, but it seems like not many of them have gotten it right as I thought. A truly unimaginably brutal
and cruel story awaits, so please look forward to it.

Will Squid Game return after season 3?

No, season 3 has been confirmed as Squid Game s final season. But, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has shared his future plans for a Squid Game franchise with
The Hollywood Reporter : One of the ideas Im tossing around is what happened between season one and two. Theres a three-year gap. So, for example, what
was the Front Man doing during those three years? said Hwang. What was the Recruiter doing? When I have some downtime, I like to just toss some ideas around and go wild with my imagination. So I guess we can be open to
anything.

And, back in 2022, Deadline reported that Dong-hyuk also had a satirical
series based on the creation of Netflix's Squid Game in early development. At time of writing, it was rumored to be called The Best Show on the Planet .

If you're craving more from Squid Game , the franchise has already expanded with Squid Game: The Challenge , a real-world adaptation of the show , which debuted in November 2023 and was subsequently renewed for a second season. Casting of which is now closed, though a release date is still unknown.

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