The ending of Squid Game season three set everything up perfectly for an upcoming Squid Game spin-off where the evil games move from South Korea to the USA… or so we thought.
Squid Game’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has now confirmed that he didn’t write the scene with Cate Blanchett as an American recruiter to segway into a new spin-off after all.
In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, he said: “I didn’t end it on that note in order to deliberately leave room for further stories to happen. Gi-hun and Front Man, through these characters, the Games in Korea have ended.”
“And because this story started out with me wanting to tackle issues about the limitless competition and the system that’s created in late capitalism, I wanted to leave it on a note highlighting the fact that these systems, even if one comes down, it’s not easy to dismantle the whole system — it will always repeat itself.”
“That’s why I wanted to end it with an American recruiter. And I wrote that scene wanting an impactful ending for the show, not in order to open rooms for anything else.”
It has been rumoured that David Fincham is creating an American version of the show, but Hwang claimed he knows nothing about it, saying: “Honestly, nothing has been said to me officially by Netflix about this. I’ve only read it in articles myself as well.”
“I’ve always been a huge fan of David Fincher’s work — from Se7en — and I’ve loved his films. So if he were to create an American Squid Game, I think that would be very interesting to watch. I would definitely click on it immediately after it’s released, if it were to happen.”
If the American film director was planning on making a Squid Game spin-off, he’d have to get the rights from Hwang Dong-hyuk, so it looks like there isn’t an American version in the works after all. Well, not yet at least.
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