Step out of the alley and cease taking part in ddakji when you’re not updated on the whole lot of “Squid Sport,” together with the third and ultimate season. Spoilers forward!
Who else was shocked to see two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett pop up on the very finish of “Squid Sport,” the South Korean sensation created by Hwang Dong-hyuk? For those who’ve watched it, that Blanchett, identified from every thing from “Thor: Ragnarok” to “Tár,” seems because the American “recruiter” who will get gamers concerned in these deranged and harmful video games, seen in an alleyway forcing a poor soul to play a high-stakes recreation of Do not (a Korean card recreation) and making pointed eye contact with the Entrance Man, Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun). In line with Hwang, who spoke to TheWrap after the third and ultimate season of “Squid Sport” concluded on its unique dwelling at Netflix, “The explanation I had Cate Blanchett in that scene on the finish, it got here from a spot the place I simply needed an impactful ending. It wasn’t something to trace at a season 4 or something like that,” Hwang stated. The author and director additionally advised Netflix’s in-house publication Tudum that he employed Blanchett as a result of, nicely, she’s the very best!
“We thought having a lady as a recruiter could be extra dramatic and intriguing. And as for why Cate Blanchett, she’s simply the very best, with unmatched charisma. Who does not love her? So we have been very pleased to have her seem. We wanted somebody who may dominate the display with only one or two phrases, which is precisely what she did. If Gong Yoo is the Korean Recruiter, I assumed she could be the right match because the American Recruiter, bringing a brief however gripping and impactful ending to the story.”
Past that, Hwang reminded the outlet that, again in season 1, the present’s odious VIPs — characters who journey the world to observe totally different variations of this harrowing torture, for no matter purpose — stated the “Korean model” of the video games occurs to be essentially the most enjoyable. “It has at all times been the premise that these video games are occurring in different elements of the world as a result of ‘Squid Sport’ symbolizes the intense aggressive system inside late capitalism,” Hwang clarified. “So it isn’t solely about Korea.” He then went on to say, as soon as once more, that Blanchett’s mere presence does not essentially imply she’ll be a part of a spin-off, although her “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” director David Fincher is reportedly engaged on stated spin-off that takes place in america.
Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says he does not essentially envision a spin-off starring Cate Blanchett
In that very same interview, Hwang Dong-hyuk broke down the ending of “Squid Sport” and what it may imply for a future spin-off, however he did say one thing that possibly confirmed that he is not envisioning a spin-off starring Cate Blanchett. In reality, Hwang pointed to the guards who make sure that the video games run easily as doubtlessly fertile floor for a spin-off. “What sort of persons are they behind the masks? What sort of private relationships have they got with one another?” Hwang requested concerning the guards. “I’ve these obscure concepts that I am tossing round. If there have been to be a by-product, that will be concerning the Entrance Man or the Korean recruiter or what occurs behind the masked guards.” (Gong Yoo’s aforementioned Korean recruiter dies in season 2 of “Squid Sport,” however I suppose a prequel is not out of the query.)
It additionally feels notable that Lee Byung-hun’s Entrance Man acknowledges Blanchett’s American recruiter, particularly now that Hwang has stated that he thinks that the Entrance Man may need a brand new lease on life after the occasions of the collection finale. In that episode, our protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who gained the earlier video games, sacrifices his life to save lots of Participant 222, who occurs to be a new child child (and the daughter of the previous Participant 222/Kim Jun-hee, performed by Jo Yu-ri). In-ho witnesses this and in the end delivers the child to security because the compound self-destructs, and Hwang particularly touches on this, so possibly we’ll get a spin-off a couple of modified In-ho.
“By sacrificing himself, Gi-hun’s actions have positively touched one thing in In-ho’s coronary heart, possibly a really small sliver of hope that he had hidden deep down in his coronary heart,” Hwang mused. “I additionally suppose it might have triggered some disgrace in him, as a result of that (sacrifice) was one thing he wasn’t in a position to do for himself. With the gaming area in Korea being fully ruined and seeing this child who made it out of the sport, there was an enormous change throughout the Entrance Man, and I believe that was triggered and caused by Gi-hun’s actions. I needed that to be what the viewers feels as nicely.”
Will In-ho resume his position because the Entrance Man with the American video games, with or with out the presence of Cate Blanchett? Solely time will inform. For now, “Squid Sport” is streaming in its entirety on Netflix.
