Squid Game creator already has a spinoff idea before Season 3 ends

We’re still a few weeks away from seeing how Squid Game Season 3 shakes out, but creator Hwang Dong-hyuk already has an idea for a potential spinoff.

The final chapter of the deadliest games in history (yes, maybe even more than The Hunger Games) drops on Netflix on June 27, set to pick up in the aftermath of Season 2’s bloody cliffhanger. Gi-hun, aka Player 456, is at his lowest, while In-ho resumes his role as Front Man to welcome the mysterious VIPs.

Even after the trailer drop during the streamer’s TUDUM live event, specific details for what we’re about to see next remain vague. All we know for certain is that nobody left standing is in for an easy ride, and there’s going to be some important choices to make.

But after the binge-worthy TV show comes back, that’s the last we’ll see of the games. Or is it? Hwang Dong-hyuk has hinted Squid Game could have a potential spinoff, and he knows exactly what it would look like.

Squid Game spinoff after Season 3 would explore what happened in time jump

Speaking to IndieWire, Dong-hyuk confirmed a Squid Game spinoff would focus on what happened during the time jump between the end of Season 1 and the start of Season 2, which was set three years after Gi-hun won the initial games.

“If I make [a] spin off, it will be a story happening between Season 1 and 2. There [was] a three years gap between Season 1 and 2,” Dong-hyuk told IndieWire at the Gotham Awards. “So, I want to show what they did for those times.”

During the Season 1 finale, we saw Gi-hun’s reluctant face-off against Sang-woo, who plunged a knife into his own neck, making his dying wish for Gi-hun to take care of his mother. Gi-hun gets the 45.6 billion won, finds out Oh Il-nam is not only alive but the mastermind behind the chaos, and tries to board a plane with his box fresh red hair but sees the Salesman across the way.

He’s called by the Front Man, who advises he gets on his flight, but Gi-hun comes barrelling straight back off the plane instead. When we next see him in Season 2 Episode 1, he comes face to face with Jun-ho since the Front Man reveal. What happened in between that time is anybody’s guess, but it could be pretty easy for Dong-hyuk to work out.

“I was thinking to myself: will I really be able to pull this off? Will I be able to create or write something that would exceed Season 1? But once I got to writing, and once I got into the story of Gi-hun returning to the games with his own motives, it actually went a lot better than I thought it would. Dong-hyuk told the outlet in a previous interview.

“I was able to create a story that I felt was more intriguing, come up with more interesting characters, and come up with more original and intriguing games as well.”

Whether a spinoff would actually end up happening remains to be seen, with no confirmed plans for anything after Season 3 from either Dong-hyuk or Netflix (well, apart from Squid Game: The Challenge Season 2 of course).