In conversation with Entertainment Weekly, the Netflix phenomenon’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk made this surprising Star Wars reference when discussing new paths for characters.
“I’m not really in the right place to be discussing season 2 in an official setting, but if there were to be a season 2, in the first season that we saw Gi-hun is a character whose humanity is shown through or exposed in certain situations.
“In other words, his humanity is shown through a very passive manner,” he explained.
“But I would think that in the second season, what he has learned from the games and his experience in the first season, they will all be put to use in a more active manner. And at the same time, as for the Front Man [Lee Byung-hun] who was also a past winner but became a Front Man, it’s like Darth Vader. Some end up Jedi and some become Darth Vader, right?
“I think that maybe Gi-hun will go through a certain critical point where he is put through a test as well.”
So no lightsaber-wielding twists, then.
The first season of Squid Game is streaming on Netflix now.
