'Squid Game' creator says final season dives into 'the lowest bottom of human beings'

Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of Squid Game, is aiming to bring a more brutal final season.

The 53-year-old South Korean film director, producer, and writer caught up with Entertainment Weekly and revealed what fans can expect from the forthcoming final season of the Korean survival drama.

Hwang shared, "In the case of season 3, I wanted to introduce games that could really show the lowest bottom of human beings, because the series itself is reaching its climax.”

He added, "I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature."

The Fortress director even made a list of games he played in his childhood and throughout the series, he kept referring to them.

"In season 1, we had lots of games like Tug of War that really utilized height and the fear that this height gives, but in the case of season 2, we didn't have that element,” Hwang quipped.

"That is why in season 3, I decided to introduce games that could really infuse fear in people with sheer height,” he explained the reason behind going over the board with ruthless and fearful games in the final season.

Expanding on this, the Silenced director added, "For season 1, I tried to focus on how there's intense competition going around in this extreme capitalistic society. In the case of season 2, I wanted to show how Gi-hun breaks the game's rules by trying to introduce this revolt of trying to upend the system, but then it ends in failure.”

“And in the case of season 3, I wanted to take a slightly different approach — I wanted to focus on how [people] have to preserve their humanity amidst this intense competition in this capitalistic era. I wanted to focus on how we can preserve our sense of humanity and how we should remain humans even amidst this intense competition. I try to pose that as a final question,” Hwang Dong-hyuk stated.

For the unversed, the second installment ended with a cliffhanger, as Gi-hun tried to go against the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) but ended up losing his friend, Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan). Now, in the forthcoming final season, he will be taking the loss of his friend even harder than ever.

It is pertinent to mention the third and final season of the hit Netflix show, Squid Game, will be released on June 27, 2025.