Netflix Boss Reveals Plans For Stranger Things Spinoff: ‘The Upside Down Is Not Over’
We haven’t even discovered all the mysteries of the Upside Down yet and already there’s talk of a Stranger Things spinoff, according to Netflix boss Ted Sarandos.
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The CEO of the streaming service spoke of the future of the beloved sci-fi show while attending its season five premiere in London, teasing to fans that “the world of Hawkins, Indiana and the Upside Down is not over”.
Sarandos stopped short of revealing further details (blasphemy!), but sources have claimed there’s “been talks of a live-action spin-off as well as another animated project”.
The mysterious spinoff will add to the broader world created outside of Stranger Things’ main show, with the series already spawning a Broadway play titled Stranger Things: The First Shadow and upcoming cartoon called Stranger Things: Tales From ’85.
That animation will be set between seasons two and three of the main series and will be voiced by an entirely new cast.
While those offshoot projects have been confirmed, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer have played coy about details of the main spinoff.
Speaking to PEDESTRIAN.TV, the Duffers said they are “working on a spinoff” that “doesn’t involve any of the characters or Hawkins”.
Meanwhile, on on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the creators said: “The most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it. There is story that connects to the Stranger Things world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.”
“It will be 1000 per cent different [to the OG series],” they added.
We don’t know any other deets about the cast or plot just yet, but we at least have Volume 1 of the fifth and final season to dig into in the meantime.
ICYMI, the first three episodes of that season landed on Thursday, and they’re chock-full of bombshell reveals and major twists, with audience and critics agreeing it is a smash hit.
The next batch of episodes will drop on December 25, followed by the finale on December 31. If you’re preemptively mourning Stranger Things’ conclusion, rest assured we’ll be hearing more from the Upside Down soon enough.
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