Squid Game Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk Teases ‘Possibility’ of a Spinoff Ahead of Final Season

The Squid Game universe could be expanding.

Hwang Dong-hyuk — the South Korean creator and writer-director of the hit Netflix series — spoke to PEOPLE exclusively at the season 3 premiere on Wednesday, June 18, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, where he teased that there’s “possibility” of a spinoff.

“I cannot just tell right now when and how it’s going to happen,” he said. “But there is a chance.”

Hwang’s tease comes as Squid Game is set to return for its third and final season on June 27.

Season 3 is set to pick up right where the previous season left off, with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) — a.k.a. Player 456 — licking his wounds after he and some of his fellow contestants attempted an ill-fated rebellion against those running the Squid Game competition.

The story left off with the players’ revolt failing, Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) revealing himself as The Front Man and the murder of Park Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) right in front of Gi-hun.

“The third and final season of Squid Game follows Gi-hun after losing his best friend in the game and being driven to utter despair by The Front Man, who was hiding his true identity to infiltrate the game,” the official season 3 synopsis reads.

The synopsis continues, “Gi-hun persists with his goal to put an end to the game, while the Front Man continues onto his next move and the surviving players’ choices will lead to graver consequences with each round.”

Netflix dropped an official trailer for the final season during their live Tudum 2025 event in May.

“Why didn’t you kill me? Why did you keep me alive? Why did you let me live?” Gi-hun screams in the clip as he’s restrained.

We also see the surviving players forced to finish out the Squid Game — including a twisted and deadly round of jump rope — that they were participating in before the rebellion.

The trailer ends with Gi-hun being escorted to the control room to come face to face with The Front Man once again.

“Player 456, do you still have faith in people?” The Front Man asks Gi-hun as it comes to a close.

Squid Game season 3 streams June 27 on Netflix.