Finn Wolfhard Says “Everyone Was Pretty Worried” ‘Stranger Things’ Final Season Will Get “Torn To Shreds” Like ‘Game of Thrones’
As the end approaches for the gang in Hawkins, Indiana, Finn Wolfhard hopes to give Stranger Things a worthy send-off.
The actor admitted that he was “pretty worried” the upcoming fifth and final season of the Netflix sci-fi drama would get “torn to shreds,” similar to how Game of Thrones‘ highly-anticipated 2019 finale left audiences divided.
“I think everyone was pretty worried, honestly,” Wolfhard told Time. “The way that Game of Thrones got torn to shreds in that final season, we’re all walking into this going, ‘We hope to not have that kind of thing happen.’ But then we read the scripts. We knew that it was something special.”
Wolfhard made his breakout performance as Mike Wheeler when Stranger Things debuted in 2016, having starred in the young ensemble for the entirety of its five-season run.
With Season 5: Volume 1 premiering Nov. 26 on Netflix, followed by Vol. 2 on Christmas and the finale on New Year’s Eve, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer teased in January that the final outing will be a cinematic farewell.
(L to R) Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in ‘Stranger Things’
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“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer revealed. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies.”
