The next publish accommodates SPOILERS for the ultimate episode of Squid Game Season 3. Think about this your crimson mild signal to cease if you happen to don’t wish to know.
Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk promised that the third season of the present could be its final and would conclude the story of Participant #456, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae). And it defintitely did that. (Spoilers, uh, issues didn’t work out all that nice for him).
However on condition that Squid Sport is actually the largest present within the historical past of Netflix, and it’s already spawned a actuality present competitors collection, and numerous Squid Video games real-world installations and a metric ton of merchandise, there’s been huge hypothesis round whether or not present may proceed in another kind.
The collection finale definitely hinted strongly in that route. After winding down Gi-hun’s journey by means of the video games, In-ho (Lee-Byung-hun) visits Gi-hun’s daughter in America, and leaves her his uniform and his winnings from the primary Video games. Then, after he leaves, In-ho is driving by means of site visitors when he spies what positive seems to be like an American Recruiter discovering new gamers for the Video games.
The recruiter is performed by Cate Blanchett. Her one, extraordinarily ominous line of dialogue:
“All proper. Let’s go once more.”
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That might completely appeared to tease an American set Squid Sport spinoff. Up to now, Netflix has stated something definitive about any continuations of Squid Sport. However once more, it might be extraordinarily not like Netflix (or any main media firm) to chop its largest franchise brief whereas it’s nonetheless enormously common — and will doubtlessly be continued, with or with out Blanchett concerned.
Netflix’s official on-line journal Tudum describes Blanchett’s character as “the American Recruiter.” Collection creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had this to say about her casting:
And as for why Cate Blanchett, she’s simply the very best, with unmatched charisma. Who doesn’t love her? So we had been very pleased to have her seem. We would have liked somebody who may dominate the display screen with only one or two phrases, which is precisely what she did. If Gong Yoo is the Korean Recruiter, I assumed she could be the right match because the American Recruiter, bringing a brief however gripping and impactful ending to the story.
Squid Sport Season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.
