🚨MASSIVE 🚨 Spoilers follow for the end of Squid Game.
The third and final season of the Netflix global smash Squid Game hit the streaming service this weekend — and there’s a good chance you’ve already watched the whole thing, up until the shocking conclusion.
Brief refresher, in case you somehow already forgot: In the final episode, the show’s protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) decides to kill himself, effectively making the newborn daughter of Players 222 and 333 the winner of the competition — and, as the Front Man takes her to safety, the 45.6 billion won prize.
Well, in a new interview with Variety, the show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says that the series almost ended way differently — and in much more shocking fashion, too.
“When I had a vague idea about what kind of story I wanted to tell through Seasons 2 and 3, I actually had a different ending in mind,” he said. “And then as I went through the writing process, as I created my characters, as I laid out the foundation and the outline of the story, and as I drew out the map for Gi-hun’s character arc, I realized, this shouldn’t be the way this story ends — and this is a better ending, or the right ending, for this arc.”
“And so there was actually a very drastic change in the ending compared to when I just had only a vague idea about the story, and then when I really got into the writing process.”
“In the finale, Gi-hun makes a choice,” Hwang added, “and originally, when I was just thinking about where the story was going to take me, it was actually the exact opposite choice.”
Yikes. Does that mean…Gi-hun…was going to kill a baby? Wild stuff, if so. You can read the rest of the interview right here.
