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"Squid Game" Star Lee Jung-Jae Dishes connected Season 2
The unit is with Lee Jung-jae.
The Squid Game actor is acceptable to marque his Star Wars debut with a starring relation in Lucasfilm's caller bid The Acolyte, Deadline announced Sept. 8. Though nary details astir his quality person been released yet, Jung-jae is acceptable to play the antheral pb crossed from Bodies Bodies Bodies star Amandla Stenberg. Jodie Turner-Smith will besides be joining the cast.
E! News reached retired to reps for Lucasfilm for comment, but did not perceive back.
The workplace archetypal announced the Disney+ series in December 2020, describing it arsenic "a mystery-thriller that volition instrumentality viewers into a postulation of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers successful the last days of the High Republic era." Showrunner Leslye Headland, who co-created Netflix's Russian Doll, told Vanity Fair that the bid volition instrumentality spot successful "a clip play that we don't cognize overmuch about"— astir 100 years earlier the events of 1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
"My question erstwhile watching The Phantom Menace was ever like, ‘Well, however did things get to this point?'" Headland explained. "How did we get to a constituent wherever a Sith lord tin infiltrate the Senate and nary of the Jedi prime up connected it? Like, what went wrong? What are the scenarios that led america to this moment?"
While the amusement is inactive casting, Headland revealed the penning signifier is beauteous overmuch done. The show, she said, focuses connected a peaceful epoch successful the galaxy, which she called "the Renaissance, oregon the Age of Enlightenment."
"The Jedi uniforms are golden and white, and it's astir similar they would ne'er get dirty," she teased. "The thought is that they could person these types of uniforms, due to the fact that that's however small they're getting into skirmishes."
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Squid Game has been renewed for a 2nd season, with Jung-jae acceptable to reprise his role. The amusement scored a whopping 14 Emmy nominations and became the archetypal non-English-language amusement to beryllium nominated successful the main play category. The Emmys volition beryllium held connected Monday, Sept. 12, airing live on NBC and streaming for the archetypal clip ever connected Peacock.
The Acolyte does not yet person a merchandise date. Season 1 of Squid Game is disposable to watercourse connected Netflix.
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