The next put up incorporates SPOILERS for the ultimate episode of Squid Sport Season 3. Take into account this your purple mild signal to cease if you happen to don’t need to know.
Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk promised that the third season of the present can 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 provided that Squid Sport is actually the most important present within the historical past of Netflix, and it’s already spawned a actuality present competitors collection, and varied 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 path. After winding down Gi-hun’s journey via 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 via visitors when he spies what certain 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. To this point, Netflix has stated something definitive about any continuations of Squid Sport. However once more, it might be extraordinarily in contrast to Netflix (or any main media firm) to chop its largest franchise brief whereas it’s nonetheless enormously well-liked — 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 have been very blissful to have her seem. We wanted 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 can be the proper 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.
