🚨MASSIVE 🚨 Spoilers observe for the tip of Squid Game.
The third and last season of the Netflix international smash Squid Game hit the streaming service this weekend — and there is a good likelihood you’ve got already watched the entire thing, up till the surprising conclusion.
Transient refresher, in case you by some means already forgot: Within the last episode, the present’s protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) decides to kill himself, successfully making the new child daughter of Gamers 222 and 333 the winner of the competitors — and, because the Entrance Man takes her to security, the 45.6 billion received prize.
Effectively, in a brand new interview with Variety, the present’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says that the sequence virtually ended method otherwise — and in far more surprising vogue, too.
“After I had a obscure concept about what sort of story I needed to inform via Seasons 2 and three, I really had a distinct ending in thoughts,” he mentioned. “After which as I went via the writing course of, as I created my characters, as I laid out the inspiration and the define of the story, and as I drew out the map for Gi-hun’s character arc, I noticed, this shouldn’t be the way in which this story ends — and it is a higher ending, or the precise ending, for this arc.”
“And so there was really a really drastic change within the ending in comparison with once I simply had solely a obscure concept concerning the story, after which once I actually acquired into the writing course of.”
“Within the finale, Gi-hun makes a alternative,” Hwang added, “and initially, once I was simply excited about the place the story was going to take me, it was really the precise reverse alternative.”
Yikes. Does that imply…Gi-hun…was going to kill a child? Wild stuff, in that case. You possibly can learn the remainder of the interview proper here.