SquidGame creator Hwang Dong-hyuk on the show's memorable marbles episode, how his script evolved over time, and why he lost six teeth while filming
Photo: Netflix The internet has been abuzz in recent weeks with reports that Squid Game will return for a second season. The coverage has been misleading, however; the confusion possibly stems from a slight mistranslation of an Associated Press interview with the show’s mastermind, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk. In the video, the subtitles note Hwang as stating, “But I will say there will indeed be a second season.” What he actually said was, “I think there will indeed be a season 2.
The genius behind Squid Game is a celebrated director and screenwriter in South Korea, known for making films that are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful including My Father, Silenced, Miss Granny, and The Fortress. Squid Game — a dystopian survival thriller in which 456 debt-ridden contestants participate in a series of deadly children’s games for a chance to win 45.6 billion won — is his first attempt at creating a series.
I didn’t have the global market in mind back in 2008. The story was a screenplay for a film, and my aim for the story was commercial success. I started considering the global market when I decided to work with Netflix. As we turned the story into a series, I had more freedom in terms of length and the scope of expression.
In addition to Lee Jung-jae, there are a couple of Hallyu stars in the drama, namely Lee Byung-hun and Gong Yoo. What made you decide to cast them in their respective roles? Were you concerned some things would be lost in translation? Did that drive you to adapt parts of the drama to fit for a more global audience?
Can you talk about directing the actors in that episode? What sort of notes did you give, especially for the close-ups? I wanted to depict society as it is from a realistic and cool-headed point of view. Squid Game is not intended to be a story of hope for society with some wishy-washy portrayal of a hero. We cannot expect such self-sacrifice of ourselves nor each other. I wanted to ask viewers how we can navigate this cold world of vicious competition together when each of us are merely weak and ordinary individuals.Ali represents migrant workers, who have become a crucial, indispensable part of Korean society.
Particularly for the marbles, I wrote in the script that the scenes were set in an alley with a sunset from the neighborhood I grew up in. We started from that basic idea and made slight changes to the space along the way. If you look closely, you can see only the gates of the houses and walls but no yards or interiors of the houses; we used only gates, walls, and roofs to make the entire set feel like a maze.
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