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fortune ox blaze Squid Game is back with more blood and a taste for revenge. Netflix ’s biggest ever series, which launched in September 2021, returns for its second season later this month and it’s just as dystopian, violent and vicious as the first with more than 450 new characters to kill off. The first season, which scored 14 Emmy nominations including wins for star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk for directing , was inspired by the Korean financial collapse. The world, according to Dong-Hyuk, otherwise known as Director Hwang, is just as screwed up as it previously was, inspiring him to go back to the island for another round of Squid Game. The second season starts with Seong Gi-hun, otherwise known as Player 456, played by Lee, searching for the people behind the game, three years after winning it. He’s using the ₩45.6 billion prize to fund this search, helped by a large group of ne’er-do-wells and underworld figures, from the safety of a disused motel that he’s turned into his HQ fortress. Gi-hun is initially searching for The Recruiter, played by Gong Yoo, a slender figure in a sharp suit that lured people into the game by playing ddakji in the subway. This all leads Gi-hun to returning to Squid Game in order to attempt to end it. Once he’s back inside, he is introduced to a new cast of characters including Myung-gi (played by Yim Si-Wan), a former cryptocurrency influencer who, after losing a hefty sum of cash and incurring huge losses for himself and his subscribers, becomes a fugitive until his involvement in the game; Jun-hee (played by Jo Yu-Ri), a strong-willed woman who participates in the game due to bad investments made at the advice of said influencer; Yong-sik (played by Yang Dong-Geun), a compulsive gambler neck-deep in debt who finds his own mother is a participant in the game; his mother Geum-ja (played by Kang Ae-Sim) and Jung-bae (played by Lee Seo-Hwan), a longtime friend and former coworker of Gi-Hun’s who was seen in Season 1 gambling alongside him at the horse race track. Elsewhere, Lee Byung-hun’s The Front Man, who has seemingly taken charge of the game following the death of Oh Il-nam, and Hwang Jun-ho, played by Wi Ha-jun, a detective who sneaks into the game in search of his brother, are also back. Gi-Hun has grown in the three years since his first visit. Lee Jung-jae explains that his character has gone through a “transitional period.” “Because of that emotional change in Season 1, the types of emotions that he feels when he meets the other players is very different from what he feels when he meets other participants in Season 2,” he said. “In Season 2, I realized that I was on set receiving and accepting others’ emotions first, and paying more attention to that, so I thought that was the biggest difference.” Director Hwang says that the second season has “greater scale” than Season 1 and there are obviously new games. Without revealing the specifics of the new and deadly challenges, he said that he thought long and hard about which games to make the contestants plays. He revealed there were plenty of suggestions online about local Korean games but he wanted them to be “really simple.” “The games are one of the biggest changes as well as the characters because, except for Gi-Hun, all of the characters that play the games are new so you’re going to be able to see more endearing characters that you end up rooting for,” he added. Hwang said while the engine of the story is Gi-Hun’s quest for revenge on the perpetrators, there’s a much bigger message in Season 2. “Do we have the willpower and strength to try to make the world a better place? Does humanity have what it takes to change the course of the world, and can we truly let go of our greed, our desires in order to create a better world together? Those were some of the questions that I wanted to pose, not so much about who or how these people behind the games like what they’re like,” he said. The drama series remains somewhat political. “The one thing that I had most in mind was this current world and how it makes all of us divided, it separates us from the other group, creates different sides to become hostile,” he said, speaking days before Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency for a second time. “There are so many things that divide us today, whether it’s race, religion, language, the haves and the have nots, the generational divisions, and recently, with the very important vote that you have this week, we look at the political division, the left against the right, the conservatives against the progressives, and things like this lead to such a division where it almost seems like there is this line that absolutely cannot be crossed. It seems that the world leaders are creating these walls and divisions and it leads us to think that everyone who is on the other side, who does not think as you do, is an enemy that cannot ever be forgiven.” Highlighting this in Season 2 is another one of the biggest differences between the seasons: voting. The contestants in this latest round of murderous children’s games are handed a vote after each challenge to decide whether they want to continue or to carry on and accrue more money. “Even more so than the tension that comes from the games themselves, I felt more intense feelings of suspense and tension from these votes, because you cannot but wonder what’s going to happen if the games are going to go on, who’s going to vote,” Hwang said. “That leads to the people in the games thinking whatever [is chosen], I’m right, you’re wrong. I’m an angel. You’re absolute evil. All throughout Season 2, I was focusing on that issue of, is there truly hope for us?” He said that he created Season 2 because he does not want to live in a divided society. You can’t put a price on human life, either, he added. “I am not so naive that I believe that we can do completely away with any kind of discrimination in this world that we live in,” Hwang said. “However, I don’t believe people are different. There are differences in terms of what kind of talents we have, what we are capable of. People have different abilities. However, I think it truly it becomes a problem when those differences lead to discrimination to an unacceptable level where those that have less abilities, or those that have abilities that are deemed of less value in society, are driven to the rock bottom of society without any kind of system to look after them. That is something that we have to stop. If we fail to do that, I don’t think that we will ever see a society with a healthy social system. We need to move in a way where we accept the differences of individuals, but make sure that it does not lead to discrimination. Unfortunately, I think that is what the world is currently doing.” Season 2 of Squid Game premieres on Netflix on December 26. It will be followed next year by the third and final season. DEADLINE: Director Hwang, you’ve said that Season 1 of Squid Game was quite stressful. How did you both feel going into Season 2? HWANG : Season 1, as you know, was an immense success, and thanks to that success we could create a Season 2, but we knew that there was so much expectation and anticipation for Season 2, so it did come to me as a bit of pressure. I wanted to channel that pressure into a positive way forward, so the season one finale was [Seong] Gi-hun not getting on the flight, saying that he’ll find the guys [responsible]. I knew that I had to do something with that and finish the story of Gi-hun, so that’s how I went on with Season 2. I’ve been working on this project like almost like 10 years from the writing. Finally, we are at the point of launching and it makes me excited, for sure, also at the same time, I’m nervous, because people love Season 1 so much. LEE : When we were filming Season 1, I kept asking Director Hwang if we were going to have a Season 2. And he said, “Never, ever.” But because we got so much love and support from the global fans, I think it was our way of returning that love to the fans by creating a Season 2, so I was very happy to return and reprise my role as Gi-hun. I did feel a bit of a pressure, but I also, just like Director Hwang, wanted to use that as a positive driver. Season 2, in a way, feels like a way of returning the love to the fans. It’s my first time feeling this way in my career. But it doesn’t feel like a product or content, it feels like a gift or present we’re giving to their viewers, which makes me even more nervous, because we don’t know if they will like the present or not. DEADLINE: Season 1 was influenced by the South Korean financial crisis. What was your inspiration for Season 2? HWANG : Season 1 came out during the pandemic, and it’s been about three or four years, and now, if you see the world and the environment that we live in, I think it’s spiraling downwards. It’s not getting any better. We still see gaps between gender and the poor exacerbating and we see wars around the globe, and we have conflicts between races, religion, class. Looking at all that, and I also feel like the young people just want a jackpot because they don’t have that ladder they can climb up, they don’t have that anymore. I think because these things are still happening in our world, I could be influenced by that, and I could create a Season 2. DEADLINE: JJ, your character is slightly more mature in Season 2, you’ve gone through Squid Game and come out successful. Did you approach the character differently in Season 2, knowing what you knew? LEE: This time around, Gi-hun is full of vengeance, and he wants to put an end to the game. I’m kind of sad that he no longer is the naive and childlike person that he was in Season 1, just quite lovable. But this time around, he has a very strong purpose, and a thing that he wants to make happen. As an actor, sometimes when my character has that strong purpose, I think I’m empowered by that, so I was very happy filming Season 2. DEADLINE: Director Hwang, you wrote Season 1 largely by yourself. Did you have other writers for Season 2 and did you film in the same locations? HWANG : When I was writing the scripts for Season 2, I did have a couple of assistant writers help me, but usually they were doing most of the research, and the main writing was done by myself. For the locations, about 80% of the entire filming for Squid Game takes place on a set or a sound stage, so we used the same soundstage for Season 2, and for the scenes that do not require to be on set, we found locations that were suitable for the scenes. DEADLINE: Hwang In-ho, The Front Man, is much more of a major character now following the death of Oh Il-nam. Do we find out more about how he became in charge of Squid Game? HWANG : This might be a bit of a spoiler, so I can’t give too much away, but I can tell you that throughout seasons two and three, you will find parts of his backstory. DEADLINE: You decided to focus on the guards a little more in Season 2. Why did you decide to do that? HWANG : In Season 1, I used the cop who infiltrated the game, Hwang Jun-ho, as a way to introduce the life of the workers there. But in Season 2, I wanted to focus more on the soldiers and the managers with the triangle or the square. This time around, you can see a sneak peek into the lives of the soldiers and managers and how they came to be who they are. DEADLINE: JJ, since Squid Game launched you became a Jedi Master in The Acolyte . Did that Star Wars series have any influence on how you approached returning to Squid Game ? LEE: Being in production for The Acolyte , was indeed a very special experience and a memory that I’m very fond of, but I think that project is very different from Squid Game . Instead of using the experience from The Acolyte , I relied more on my experience of filming Season 1 of Squid Game . I tried my best to connect what I learned from Season 1 and then use that in Season 2. DEADLINE: Season 2 of Squid Game is seven episodes, compared to nine in Season 1. Was that your decision? Did you film Season 2 back-to-back with Season 3? HWANG : I wrote seasons two and three at the same time, and we were in production for both simultaneously, and currently we are in the post-production process for Season 3. When I was writing the script for the two seasons, I felt like there was a big turning point or an inflection point, and that was the end of episode seven, so I thought that it would do it justice to have a separate season after that. That’s why I had first seven episodes as Season 2 and then the rest of Season 3. DEADLINE: We reported that David Fincher is working on an American version of Squid Game . How does that make you feel? Could we potentially see other international versions of the show, as the VIPs allude to Squid Games taking place all over the world? HWANG : It’s been about a year or two talking about David Fincher coming into the story. But I don’t know anything official about that, but why not, he’s David Fincher, I respect his work. I like his films so if he does, I’m excited and I’ll look forward to it.

Stocks Gain for the Week, Nvidia Fails to Impress, and Gold ShinesBaker Mayfield threw for five touchdowns and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stayed in the race atop the NFC South by pounding the visiting Carolina Panthers 48-14 on Sunday afternoon. Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan both caught two TD passes and Bucky Irving rushed for 113 yards as Tampa Bay's second victory of the month against Carolina came much easier than the road version in overtime. Mayfield completed 27 of 32 passes for 359 yards and Evans caught eight balls for 97 yards. The Buccaneers (9-7) collected 551 yards of total offense. The Panthers (4-12) have lost five of their last six despite Bryce Young throwing two touchdown passes to Adam Thielen (five catches, 110 receiving yards). Young finished 15-for-28 passing for 203 yards, but Carolina managed only 39 rushing yards as it played without injured top running back Chuba Hubbard. Both of Mayfield's TD tosses to Evans were short (2 yards, 1 yard). Mayfield's scoring throws to McMillian covered 10 and 16 yards. He also had a 5-yard throw to Payne Durham to open the second-half scoring. The Buccaneers also scored off J. J. Russell's blocked punt return during a 25-second span of the third quarter when they racked up 14 points. Chase McLaughlin kicked field goals of 23 and 34 yards for the Buccaneers, who need to finish with a better record than the Atlanta Falcons in the divisional race because the tiebreaker favors Atlanta, which plays at Washington on Sunday night. Tampa Bay hosts New Orleans next weekend, while Carolina plays at Atlanta. After scoring on its first possession, Carolina's next three series on offense resulted in a total of minus-6 yards and three punts. The Buccaneers cashed in for 17 points following those defensive stops. The Panthers perked up by going 70 yards in 21 seconds to score on Young's 40-yard pass to Theilen with 50 seconds left in the half. They got the ball back following a Tampa Bay punt, and were in position to post 10 points in the last minute of the half until Eddy Pineiro's 53-yard field goal attempt was off the mark. Carolina has surrendered more points this year than in any season in franchise history, though Tampa Bay came four points shy of matching the most points ever allowed by the Panthers in a game. --Field Level Media

The world stands at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” in which Britain is threatened by multiple dilemmas, the head of the armed forces has warned. But alongside his stark warning of the threats facing Britain and its allies, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said there would be only a “remote chance” Russia would directly attack or invade the UK if the two countries were at war. The Chief of the Defence Staff laid out the landscape of British defence in a wide-ranging speech, after a minister warned the Army would be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict. The admiral cast doubt on the possibility as he gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) defence think tank in London. He told the audience Britain needed to be “clear-eyed in our assessment” of the threats it faces, adding: “That includes recognising that there is only a remote chance of a significant direct attack or invasion by Russia on the United Kingdom, and that’s the same for the whole of Nato.” Moscow “knows the response will be overwhelming”, he added, but warned the nuclear deterrent needed to be “kept strong and strengthened”. Sir Tony added: “We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age, which is altogether more complex. It is defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went before.” He listed the “wild threats of tactical nuclear use” by Russia, China building up its weapon stocks, Iran’s failure to co-operate with a nuclear deal, and North Korea’s “erratic behaviour” among the threats faced by the West. But Sir Tony said the UK’s nuclear arsenal is “the one part of our inventory of which Russia is most aware and has more impact on (President Vladimir) Putin than anything else”. Successive British governments had invested “substantial sums of money” in renewing nuclear submarines and warheads because of this, he added. The admiral described the deployment of thousands of North Korean soldiers on Ukraine’s border alongside Russian forces as the year’s “most extraordinary development”. He also signalled further deployments were possible, speaking of “tens of thousands more to follow as part of a new security pact with Russia”. Defence minister Alistair Carns earlier said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months. He said it illustrated the need to “generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis”. In comments reported by Sky News, Mr Carns, a former Royal Marines colonel, said Russia was suffering losses of around 1,500 soldiers killed or injured a day. “In a war of scale – not a limited intervention, but one similar to Ukraine – our Army for example, on the current casualty rates, would be expended – as part of a broader multinational coalition – in six months to a year,” Mr Carns said in a speech at Rusi. He added: “That doesn’t mean we need a bigger Army, but it does mean you need to generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis.” Official figures show the Army had 109,245 personnel on October 1, including 25,814 volunteer reservists. Mr Carns, the minister for veterans and people, said the UK needed to “catch up with Nato allies” to place greater emphasis on the reserves. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Defence Secretary John Healey had previously spoken about “the state of the armed forces that were inherited from the previous government”. The spokesman said: “It’s why the Budget invested billions of pounds into defence, it’s why we’re undertaking a strategic defence review to ensure that we have the capabilities and the investment needed to defend this country.”

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