Netflix just isn’t holding again in terms of the return of Squid Sport, the streamer’s greatest present of all time, because it held an immersive premiere and fan occasion in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Los Angeles Metropolis Faculty’s athletic discipline was transformed right into a recreation of the video games, that includes the long-lasting “Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle” (with accompanying big doll), set-inspired picture opps and a seemingly infinite variety of pink guards wandering the premises. The evening’s greatest part, although, was a virtually 5k run, as lots of of followers — outfitted within the present’s inexperienced tracksuits — tried to win tickets to the evening’s premiere screening by accurately finishing challenges alongside the route.
“I can’t imagine I’m watching this second,” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk instructed the gang as he missed the ocean of costumed company. “Thanks for coming to the occasion and celebrating Squid Sport season two collectively. You guys are my greatest Christmas present.” Star Lee Jung-jae added, “We’re excited for you all to see season two, and hope a lot of you’re going to get to see it tonight. We’re excited so that you can meet new gamers, a few of whom are right here with us tonight. We are able to’t wait to listen to what you suppose. Better of luck, from one participant to a different.”
Members begin the race
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The occasion additionally featured a mini evening market of Koreatown favorites and a nail-painting station, providing nail artwork impressed by the sequence. Earlier than the video games, Hwang and Lee walked the carpet alongside co-stars Lee Byung-hun, Yim Si-wan, Lee Search engine marketing-hwan, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Jo Yu-ri and government producer Kim Ji-yeon.
Lee Byung-hun, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Kim Ji-yeon and Lee Jung-jae on the carpet
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The Korean present — which follows lots of of cash-strapped contestants as they settle for an invite to compete in high-stakes youngsters’s video games for a life-changing prize, with loads of political commentary alongside the way in which — is coming shortly after South Korea was thrown into chaos by President Yoon Suk Yeol.
“Fairly coincidentally, the U.S. lately went by your greatest election after which in Korea as properly we face a nationwide disaster with impeachment proceedings in addition to the martial legislation declaration,” Hwang instructed The Hollywood Reporter of releasing his new season at this second. “Once you watch the second season, the act of voting is handled in a vital matter, so I invite all of you to look at the season and examine the truth of the act of voting to that of our society and that inside the present. I feel if you maintain a mirror to society in that manner, it will likely be a really significant and entertaining watch.”
And as for his future with Squid Sport, which can finish subsequent yr with season three, the creator teased, “I’m going to maneuver on. I can’t be caught on this Squid Sport world perpetually. Possibly I’ll come again for a spin-off however not for the subsequent one, I’m going to maneuver onto the subsequent one.” Nonetheless, don’t go considering he’s shifting to a happier mission, as Hwang laughed, “My subsequent mission can be extra merciless, extra violent, darker.”
Squid Sport season two begins streaming on Netflix on Dec. 26.