- Squid Game season three landed this Christmas
- Questions have swirled about when additional episodes will arrive
- The show’s creator may have given an accidental update
Squid Game is one of Netflix’s biggest properties, and it pleased audiences when it dropped its eagerly awaited second season this Christmas.
However, people are never satisfied. After gobbling up the latest drop of seven episodes on the platform, viewers are desperate for more from the dystopian South Korean horror.
Read more: All we know about Squid Game season 3
Season 2 picked up from the gripping cliffhanger season finale from the first showing from 2021. The show stars Lee Jung-hae, Jung Ho-yeon, Yim Si-Wan, Park Gyu-young and others.
Now, eagle-eyed fans are convinced that they’ve figured out when Squid Game season 3 will drop.
Squid Game season 3 release date leaked?
Shortly after season 2 landed on their platform, Netflix issued an update confirming that the show’s third outing will arrive in 2025.
The post came with a new teaser that introduced fans to a new robot named Chul-su. Watch it below:
Everyone say hi to Chul-su 👋
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) December 31, 2024
Squid Game 3, coming 2025. pic.twitter.com/3BaNpwaF85
However, eagle-eyed fans noticed a potential accidental date leak posted by Netflix Korea which stated that Squid Game season 3 will be released on 27 June 2025.
The post was swiftly made private – but it was too late. Screengrabs had been snapped and the internet started talking.
Netflix accidentally reveals that the final season of ‘SQUID GAME’ releases on June 27. pic.twitter.com/3gswYQpoqf
— The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) January 1, 2025
It’s important to note that this news is still very much a rumor. At this stage, Netflix has yet to confirm Squid Game season 3’s release date.
So when is Squid Game 3 getting released?
Warning: Squid Game season 2 spoilers below…
Well, if you take the show’s creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk at face value, it could be sooner than you think. It won’t be another three years but perhaps just until the summer of 2025.
“At this point, anything I might say is going to be a spoiler, so I want to be cautious. But what I can say is, after Season 2 launches, I believe we will be announcing the launch date for Season 3 soon. I probably expect that to launch around summer or fall next year,” he told Variety.
The creator continued, “But as for the storyline of the third season, Gi-hun having lost everything, including his best friend, and all of his attempts going to failure, it’s now, what is he going to be like? What state is Gi-hun going to be in? And what will he choose to do? Will he continue on with the mission? Is he going to give up or persist?
“And so you’re going to meet our character Gi-hun at a very critical crossroads as we begin the third season. Gi-hun will not be the man he was in Season 2.”
Did he say anything else?
Dong-hyuk also revealed that he “originally envisioned” the two follow-up series as one big season.
When asked why they were split, he said: “No other particular reason than that I originally envisioned it as a single series, so both seasons two and three as a single series when I was writing it.
“But then, 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,” he said.
Dong-hyuk continued, “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 – Gi-hun’s revolt going into a failure, him ending up losing his best friend, that itself being yet another important climatic event in the first half of the season, so into season two.”
