Just when we were all still reeling from the ending of Squid Game, the series decided to throw us one final curveball in the show's final moments. Now in California, the Front Man, AKA Hwang In-ho, notices two people playing ddakji in an alleyway. But when the camera turns around, we see that it's none other than Cate Blanchett! With a huge starlet making a rare appearance in the show, it must mean that something big is happening, right? Well, there's been some hints about what's to come next in the future of Squid Game including a US spin-off. So what can we expect?
Here's everything you need to know about Squid Game's US spin-off.
Wait, is a US spin-off of Squid Game actually happening?!
Back in October 2024, Deadline reported that a brand-new spin-off was being developed on the streamer with David Fincher at the helm of the project. Things have been pretty quiet since then and fans have been wondering if it was still in the works.
What has the creator of Squid Game said about it?
Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke with Variety and said that Cate Blanchett's cameo is actually not a a direct link to the project.
"Actually no, not at all. It’s not related to that. All I wanted to have was just an impactful ending, and that’s all that was to it. Honestly, I haven’t heard officially from Netflix about David Fincher creating a Squid Game," he said. "I have heard the rumors of course though. But again, it was just the ending that I wanted for Season 3."
Does that mean that there's no more Squid Game in the future?
Well, there's still another season of Squid Game: The Challenge to look forward to, so there's definitely more to come from the Squid Game universe. But in terms of direct spin-offs, Hwang Dong-hyuk says that he's open to what comes next.
"I'm not trying to say that I'm going to close the door to spinoffs or sequels altogether because they say never say never," he told Entertainment Weekly.
He also noted that he already has an idea for a spin-off, but it's definitely not what fans might have in mind.
"I actually had this faint ideation about possibly a spinoff — not a sequel, but maybe a spinoff about the three-year gap between season 1 and season 2 when Gi-hun looks around for the recruiters," Hwang said. "There is that three-year period, and maybe I could have a portrayal of what the recruiters or Captain Park or officers or masked men were doing in that period, not inside the gaming arena, but their life outside of that. So that is some vague ideation that I have that could possibly be developed in the future."
Will it actually come true? We'll have to wait and see! Until then, we have to hope the rumors of a US spin-off are true so we can see just what kind of recruiter Cate Blanchett really is like.
