Cate Blanchett sets up a spin-off in Los Angeles

Spoiler alert: This article contains major spoilers from the final of the series “Squid Game”, now broadcasting on Netflix.

In the last moments of the final of the series of “Squid Game”, after all, it is said and made for Gi-Hun / Player 456 (Lee Jung-Jae), a new character is presented to viewers just before the roll credits: a recruiter in a version based in Los Angeles of the Deadly Games, played by Oscar Winner Cate Blanchett.

The anonymous character is created as an American counterpart of the original recruiter of the South Korean games (Gong Yoo) presented at the start of season 1 of “Squid Game” in 2021. He was the Gi-Hun man played the Dajiki game filled with slaps and who offered him the invitation to join the Squid game. After a devastated gi-hun succeeded in the winner to become the detriment of hundreds of other lives, he spent the coming years looking for the recruiter in order to return to the games of season 2.

His efforts were finally successful and, following a biting Russian roulette game that the recruiter lost, Gi-Hun returned to the games and worked hard to shoot them from the inside. And at the end of season 3, Gi -Hun succeeded – in a way.

The arena and the surrounding island housing the South Korean version of the Calmars game competition is destroyed by the man from the front / in-ho (lee Byung-Hun), and he and the guards escape before the authorities can access it. In-ho leaves behind all the corpses of players to burn inside (including Gi-Hun), but saves the baby of player 222, who became the de facto winner when Gi-Hun committed suicide to make sure that the baby would be the one who survives.

Several months later, In-Ho apparently chose not to rebuild the games and leaves for Los Angeles. It is then, after having deposited the original Gi-Hun gains from his first Calmar match with his daughter, this in-ho is in a city car in downtown Los Angeles when he spots the character of the recruiters of Blanchett.

He sees her, dressed in a costume, playing the familiar game of Djaiki with a homeless. He establishes visual contact with her and they recognize himself silently before he appears on something, but ultimately wrap the car window and move on.

And this is how the series ends: refer to the idea that, although the original South Korean Games are over, the Calmar game has already spread to other countries, and there is room for Netflix to tell more stories in the universe.

Although it was not confirmed by Netflix, and the creator of the series “Squid Game” and director Hwang Dong-Hyuk said that he had finished with the franchise from now on, there are rumors that a series in English was presented by David Fincher (with whom Blanchett previously worked on “The curious case of Benjamin Button”).

Sources tell Variety That the streamer does not intend to announce a spin -off “Squid game” at this time – but on the basis of the addition of Blanchett to the franchise at the very end, and the immense success that the main series had during its three -seasons race, Netflix envisages the next steps for the IP.

Currently, the streamer has a popular mobile game based on the series, as well as “Squid Game: The Challenge” of 2023, an uncripted competition program, which won a BAFTA for the best reality series. “Squid Game” is also a star element in the permanent entertainment sites of Netflix in Philadelphia and Dallas.