Will "Squid Game" Get a Spinoff Series?

Key Points

• The original series will not be renewed for a fourth season.
• Cate Blanchett’s cameo in the season three finale opens up the potential for a spinoff series set in another country.
• American director David Fincher has expressed interest in creating an English language spinoff series. The spinoff, however, has not yet been confirmed.

Major spoilers ahead

Netflix's hit series Squid Game officially came to an end with season three last week. The six-episode season was a continuation of the events occurring in season two, with the characters continuing the game after an attempted revolt. In an action-packed finale, Gi-Hun sacrifices himself to save Jun-hee’s newborn baby, who becomes the winner of the game. Front Man’s brother Jun-ho finally discovers the island and alerts the Coast Guard, and Front Man triggers self destruction of the entire facility to destroy the evidence. It was an intense ending to say the least—but is this really the end?

Jun-hee’s baby in Squid Game season three

While the actions of Gi-Hun and Jun-Ho ended the games in Korea, the finale opened up a whole world of possibility for the game to continue. In the final scene of the season, Face Man delivers Gi-Hun’s money to his daughter in Los Angeles. When he drives away, he spots a recruiter, played by Cate Blanchett, playing Ddakji with a man in an alley, ominously confirming the existence of the games on a global scale.

Cate Blanchett as a recruiter in Squid Game season three

The show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told The Hollywood Reporter, “The Front Man himself, he had heard of the other international games and recruiters being there, but he didn’t know for sure. And so he was actually also shocked to see for himself that there is this recruiter in America as well, and it was by chance that he saw her.”

Gi-Hun and Jun-ho accomplished a seemingly major victory in ending the games, but as we can see, the games are much bigger than they appear. It is possible that the games have existed in multiple countries previously, or that the VIPs decided to move locations after the destruction in Korea.

Hwang Dong-hyuk at the Squid Game season three finale event

Hwang confirmed that the game ended in Korea, but not universally. “It's really a metaphor for the real world, a world in which capitalism drives relentless competition. So until all that stops, this game isn't going to stop,” he discussed in Netflix's special Squid Game in Conversation. “Plus, if we wrapped everything up, we'd have no reason to come back. And I don't think the fans would like that.”

A potential english-language spinoff could be set in America, with Cate Blanchett returning to play the recruiter, or the show could focus on a different location entirely.

David Fincher

Additionally, it has been rumored since 2024 that American director David Fincher (Fight Club, Gone Girl, The Social Network) has expressed interest in creating an English language Squid Game spinoff, though this has not been confirmed by him or Netflix.

“I wrote that scene wanting an impactful ending for the show, not in order to open rooms for anything else,” Hwang clarified to The Hollywood Reporter. “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.”

squid game s3 cr. no ju han/netflix © 2025

Cate Blanchett’s cameo means one thing for certain. The games, whether or not they return on screen, are not truly over. “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,” Hwang told The Hollywood Reporter.

Even if no spinoff occurs, the final scene still serves as a powerful implication that the games will continue until the world changes.