David Fincher's U.S. Version of Squid Game Shows Signs of Life

If you’re thing similar us, you’ve been wondering what’s going connected with the American spinoff of Squid Game, which was expected to beryllium directed by David Fincher for Netflix. Well, we’re present to archer you that it appears the caller bid is inactive happening — and has acceptable a day to commencement shooting.

The show, which volition beryllium titled Squid Game: America, has been listed connected the Film and Television Industry Alliance website with a filming day of February 26, 2026. It is besides acceptable to sprout successful Los Angeles, according to the site.

The listing includes Fincher arsenic manager and archetypal Squid Game manager Hwang Dong-hyuk and shaper Kim Ji-yeon arsenic producers connected the caller series, alongside Fincher and Zeus Zamani and Rhett Giles. Dennis Kelly is listed arsenic the screenwriter and Cate Blanchett stands retired arsenic the lone formed subordinate listed astatine this point.

The listing besides includes a caller statement of the series, albeit 1 that doesn’t archer america thing we don’t cognize yet: "A U.S. mentation of the Korean deed series, the spinoff is acceptable successful the aforesaid satellite but we get to spot however the games are handled successful America."

That said, it appears this amusement volition instrumentality spot aft the Squid Game finale, which is simply a prime that illuminates however the archetypal bid acceptable up this spinoff.

Warning! Spoilers for Squid Game Season 3 finale follow:

Gi-hun, the series’ main character, sacrifices himself astatine the extremity of the crippled successful bid for Player 222’s babe to win. After that, Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) takes the babe and escapes, leaving him country to stroke up the land locale wherever contestants are sent to play the games. Several months later, Front Man spots a recruiter (none different than Blanchett) successful a Los Angeles alleyway, playing ddakji with someone. They stock a look, and past the credits rotation — truthful it’s wide the ambiguous Season 3 ending was ever preparing for this caller amusement (and hopefully Front Man shows up successful it).

However, we don’t precisely cognize what to expect from the spinoff different than that determination volition beryllium games and they’ll beryllium happening successful America. It’s precise imaginable it’ll beryllium a large rehash of what we’ve already seen. After all, this is Netflix’s astir fashionable amusement ever, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium excessively weird for the streamer to privation to springiness the radical what they already emotion arsenic they marque efforts to grow the franchise. But it would beryllium bully to spot Fincher power things up a spot and effort thing unexpected.

In July, Gi-hun histrion Lee Jung-jae discussed however helium prepared for his character's last scenes mentally and physically — including by losing 22 pounds to amusement the toll being taken.

In an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Lee Jung-jae said Gi-hun's past country was "without a doubt, the astir challenging" to sprout of the full series, requiring helium mentally hole for the character's toughest choice, and physically amusement the accent helium had been under.

"To get that country conscionable close — each of the effort that went into mentally preparing for it and maintaining that intelligence authorities — each of that process was truly not easy," Jung-jae said. "Physically, I had gone connected a precise strict fare for astir 14 months, which really got much strict by the day, up until the time we changeable Gi-hun's last scene."

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.