Squid Game Creator Teases Spinoff Idea Ahead Of Series Finale — When Would It Be Set?

Netflix's survival thriller Squid Game will officially end with Season 3 on Friday, June 27, but that hasn't stopped creator/writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk from brainstorming new ideas to keep his bloody battle arena alive.

In a conversation with EW, Hwang elaborated on how he could potentially keep the dystopian world alive — and which characters he might be able to expand on down the line.

"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 (Lee Jung-jae) looks around for the recruiters," he said. "There is that three-year period, and maybe I could have a portrayal of what the recruiters or Captain Park (Oh Dal-su) 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."

Despite Hwang's spinoff idea(s), the creator assures fans that everything will be resolved by the end of Season 3's six-episode run — though he offers zero hints about Gi-hun's fate.

"Season 3 is indeed a finale, and you'll be able to feel that once you watch," he said. "But 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."

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