If you were sad that Squid Game is finally coming to a close, dry those eyes — because we just might be getting a spin-off series of the Netflix hit. That is, if creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has anything to say about it. The series boss recently opened up about what he would do if he was able to make a spin-off show, and honestly, we’re into it.
“If I make [a] spin off, it will be a story happening between Season 1 and 2,” Hwang revealed to Indiewire on the Gotham Awards red carpet recently. “There [was] a three years gap between Season 1 and 2. So, I want to show what they did for those times.”
We also want to know. Hwang also noted that his brain was processing the story as a whole while writing Season 2, so he couldn’t help but come up with Season 3 as well. “After I finished the whole season, the first season,” he explained to the outlet. “… I tried to come up with the idea of Season 2 and 3 at the same time.” In that way, it makes complete sense that he’s already coming up with ideas for a spin-off.
That said, Season 3 is about to be so scary that we’re not even going to be able to focus on the idea that we might be getting a spin-off series.
“In Season 1, we had lots of games like Tug of War that really utilized height and the fear that this height gives, but in the case of Season 2, we didn’t have that element,” Hwang told Entertainment Weekly in a recent interview. “That is why in Season 3, I decided to introduce games that could really infuse fear in people with sheer height.”
He also explained to the outlet that he wanted the characters of Season 3 to have to do things no human being would ever want to do — which certainly ups the stakes for the final season. “In the case of Season 3, I wanted to introduce games that could really show the lowest bottom of human beings, because the series itself is reaching its climax,” he said. “I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature.”
Squid Game Season 3, which Hwang has confirmed is the last entry for the show, returns to Netflix on June 27, 2025.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
