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Hypebeast
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Netflix's 'Squid Game' Season 3 Official Trailer Is All About Life-Or-Death Choices
Summary Netflixhas released the official trailer for the highly anticipated third and final season ofSquid Game. The first full-length trailer for the series was unveiled at Netflix Tudum 2025, following theinitial teaserrevealed in early May. The trailer and official synopsis confirm the continuation of the intense conflict between protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun). It shows Gi-hun returning to the games, seemingly at his lowest point, while new and deadlier games commence, including a gumball machine game that divides players into red and blue teams. The cast, including Wi Ha-jun, Im Si-wan, and Kang Ha-neul, are all set to return, with the series creators promising a shocking conclusion to Gi-hun's journey. The creatorHwang Dong-hyuktellsTudum, 'The new season will focus on what Gi-hun can and will do after all his efforts fail. He is in utter despair after losing everything and watching all his efforts go in vain. The story then takes an interesting turn, questioning whether Gi-hun can overcome his shame and rise again to prove that values of humanity — like conscience and kindness — can exist in the arena.' The third season picks up right after the Season 2 finale, which saw Gi-hun lead a rebellion against the puppet masters of Squid Game. Unfortunately, the coup failed and many died in the process. The final season is officially set to premiere globally on Netflix on June 27, 2025. This relatively short wait between seasons is due to seasons 2 and 3 reportedly being filmed simultaneously.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Stranger Things' Premiere Dates Revealed for 'Blockbuster' Final Season
Netflix has finally revealed when the long-awaited and fifth and final season of Stranger Things will debut. The streamer announced the final season of the coming-of-age sci-fi hit will air in three parts late this year. The first will premiere Nov. 26, followed by part two on Christmas and the series finale on New Year's Eve. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Squid Game' Star Lee Jung-jae Is Happy With How Series Ends But Is "Very Nervous" For Fan Reaction Netflix's 'Wednesday' Releases First Six Minutes of Season 2, Officially Confirms Lady Gaga Guest Role Adam Sandler Swings Away in Full 'Happy Gilmore 2' Trailer - With One Classic Throwback Line The news was announced at Netflix's Tudum fan event at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles Saturday, with stars Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp running through some look-back clips before revealing the dates for season five via a teaser (watch it below). Back in January, Ross Duffer said about the final episodes, 'We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we'd captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It's like eight blockbuster movies. It's pretty insane.' Matt Duffer added, 'At the same time, we think it's our most personal story. It was super intense and emotional to film — for us and for our actors. We've been making this show together for almost 10 years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying. The show means so much to all of us, and everyone put their hearts and souls into it. And we hope — and believe — that passion will translate to the screen.' In November, Netflix announced the season five episode titles to tease the story arc of the season: 'The Crawl,' 'The Vanishing of [censored for now]' 'The Turnbow Trap,' 'Sorcerer,' 'Shock Jock,' 'Escape From Camazotz,' 'The Bridge' and 'The Rightside Up.' The plan is also to have a bit of a time jump going into the final episodes. 'I'm sure we will do a time jump,' Ross told TVLine. 'Ideally, we'd have shot [seasons four and five] back to back, but there was just no feasible way to do that. So these are all discussions we're going to have with our writers when we start the room up.' Netflix has confirmed that the show would jump a little over a year to the fall of 1987, after season four took place in March 1986. The creators have also previously teased upcoming projects in the Stranger Things universe. 'There are more Stranger Things stories to tell and in the works,' Matt said. 'It's a bit early at this point to talk about them, but we're deeply involved in every one — it's very important to us that anything with the Stranger Things name on it is of the highest quality and not repetitive — that it has a reason to exist and always blazes its own path. And also, it needs to basically just be … awesome. Or we need to think it's awesome. And there are a lot of what we think are awesome things in the pipeline.' Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Priah Ferguson, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Joe Keery, David Harbour, Winona Ryder and Brett Gelman. For more, here is everything we know about Stranger Things' final season. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
New York Post
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Squid Game' star admits he's ‘very nervous' for fan reaction to final season
The games are coming to an end. 'Squid Game' star Lee Jung-jae teased the third and final season of the show at Netflix's Tudum event in California on Saturday. 'We are going to be releasing quite soon, I am very nervous,' Lee, 52, told The Hollywood Reporter via a translator. 8 Park Hae-soo, Lee Jung-jae and Jung Ho-yeon in 'Squid Game.' AP 'I know that a lot of you out there are curious about what's going to happen in season three, but all of us are more curious about how much you're going to enjoy it,' the actor continued. 'So I can't wait, I'm very nervous.' Lee Byung-hun, who plays game leader Front Man, told THR at Tudum that he's similarly anxiously awaiting the fan response to Season 3. 8 Lee Jung-jae attends Netflix Tudum 2025 on May 31. Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency / 8 Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun speak onstage at Netflix Tudum 2025. Getty Images for Netflix 'I'm happy with how it ended but I know that the fans out there, they each have what they want to see happen, so I really am curious about how they're going to respond to it,' he said. 'And I'm very nervous to find out.' The final season of Netflix's Korean smash hit series premieres June 27. 'Squid Game' Season 2, which saw Lee's Seong Gi-hun reenter the brutal series of games that he won, came out in December and became Nielsen's most-watched series of the 2024-25 season. 8 Lee Jung-jae in 'Squid Game' Season 3. Noh Ju-han / Netflix 8 Lee Jung-jae attends Netflix's FYSEE Squid Game Season 2 ATAS Official at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on May 30, 2025. Getty Images for Netflix But the sophomore edition of the series was bashed online by fans and got mostly negative reviews from critics. The Guardian gave the season a tepid review, writing, 'It struggles to find its purpose … What a shame it takes so long to get there.' The Telegraph compared the second season to 'a difficult second album from an overnight pop star.' 8 Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in 'Squid Game' Season 2. No Ju-han/Netflix 'Squid Game' premiered in 2021 and became the most-watched show in Netflix history, with over 2 billion hours viewed. For his performance in Season 1, Lee won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2022. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk recently told Entertainment Weekly that Season 3 will be more brutal. 8 Lee Jung-jae in 'Squid Game' Season 2. No Ju-han/Netflix '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,' said Hwang, 54. 'I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature.' 8 Oh Yeong-soo, Lee Jung-jae and Park Hae-soo in 'Squid Game' Season 1. AP Hwang also confirmed that 'season 3 is indeed a finale' that delivers an important message. 'I wanted to focus on how [people] have to preserve their humanity amidst this intense competition in this capitalistic era,' he explained. '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.' 'Squid Game' Season 3 premieres June 27 on Netflix.
UPI
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
In photos: 'Squid Game' Season 2 stars attend Netflix's FYSEE LA Fest
Lee Jung-jae attends Netflix's "Squid Game 2" FYSEE LA Fest at the Egyptian Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on May 30, 2025. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Chicago Tribune
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Netflix reveals details about Lady Gaga on ‘Wednesday,' ‘Squid Game' and ‘Stranger Things' finales
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Netflix flexed its Hollywood star power with a live event where it unveiled details about its upcoming slate of streaming offerings, including Lady Gaga being cast as a teacher on 'Wednesday,' and release dates for the final episodes of hits 'Squid Game' and 'Stranger Things.' The streaming giant assembled actors including Jenna Ortega, Oscar Isaac, Lee Jung-jae, Drew Starkey, Sofia Carson, Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck for its annual Tudum event Saturday in Inglewood, Calif. Musical performances bookended the show, with Hanumankind opening with 'Run It Up' and Gaga closing with a medley and the announcement of her latest acting gig. The event is named 'Tudum' after the audio cue that accompanies the Netflix's N logo in its trailers and at the start of its programming. A bloody trailer for the final season of 'Squid Game' accompanied the announcement that the show's third season will begin streaming June 27. The South Korean series about a brutal competition where adults face death while playing children's games was one of the pandemic's breakout hits and made an international star of Lee Jung-jae, who became the first Asian man to win an Emmy for best drama actor. The fifth and final season of 'Stranger Things' will be parceled out over the winter holidays, with four episodes dropping Nov. 26, three more on Christmas Day and the series finale premiering New Year's Eve. A new trailer highlights the history of the Duffer brothers' nostalgia-soaked sci-fi, which over the past nine years has made stars out of Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour and Finn Wolfhard. The trailer teases a final confrontation with Vecna, concluding with Noah Schnapp's Will Byers' character yelling 'RUN!' Netflix unveiled the first six minutes of the second season of 'Wednesday,' featuring Ortega's Wednesday Addams getting a helping hand from Thing as she confronts a serial killer played by Haley Joel Osment. Gaga's first acting gig since last year's 'Joker: Folie a Deux' will be playing teacher Rosaline Rotwood at Addams' school Nevermore. The first part of 'Wednesday' season 2 lands on Aug. 6, and the second half will be released Sept. 3.
