Stranger Things season 5 adaptation is on schedule, say makers
Matt and Ross Duffer want to clean up any confusion: yes, the fifth and last season of “Stranger Things” is coming this year. It can even be earlier than expected.
“We are currently aimed at visual securities sequences, which started in January,” Ross Duffer told the audience of the SCAD TVFest, where the brothers were honored with the Variety Showrunners Award. “It’s going well. We are actually ahead of schedule, which is rare for us. “
It is too early to tell how the eight episodes will be released – if it will all be in one batch or, if it likes season 4, the show will be spread between two drops. “We’ll see,” said Matt Duffer. “I will say it will come this year. We are absolutely on goal. ”
During the recent press event “Next On Netflix”, the Duffers described the last season as “Eight Blockbuster Movies”, which Matt Duffer admitted “sounded like a good sound bite.”
“Ross and I love blockbuster films, we love big special securities sequences, but in the end it’s about the character work,” he said. “What I like about television, although we were growing up film boys, that we can do these huge cinematic special effects, but then we also have a lot of time to spend with the characters … the goal is that you are ‘me I am so invested in the story, and that is what I thought good TV is doing really well. “
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“Stranger Things” star Caleb McLaughlin, who plays Lucas in the series, was also in the Scadshow Theater to hand over the Variety Award to the Duffers. The two producers noticed with awe of how many McLaughlin and his fellow stars had grown up while filming ‘Stranger Things’.
“They are now as a family,” said Matt Duffer. “That aspect of the show has been really special. I don’t know if it’s alone because there is a lot of them, but they have all become as good as people. The fear is that we ruin a child by making them famous. I am just so proud of how they have become as people. Caleb, he is a great guy. “
Ross Duffer said the nostalgia is starting to creep in when “Stranger Things” ends.
“For both of us I think it was mainly the one last week, and specifically the last film day when we started our main cast,” he said. “It was a whole year of filming that you are really in moment to moment. But that last week, and especially that last day, you started to think about everything and the journeys we were all doing. It all touched us pretty hard. Now we go back to edit, and it will touch us again, I think, when the show is finally released. ”
As for what the next step is with the “Stranger Things” franchise, the Olivier-Winning West End game “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” will hit Broadway next month. And the Duffers also have more ideas about the future – although they are not yet able to get details.
“This story, the stories of these characters, that is done,” said Matt Duffer. “So that that whole story ends. There is not like a spider -off from Steve/Dustin or something. The hope is, we have finished telling this story, and then you leave it, and then you tell new stories. And hopefully there are new characters that people can fall in love with. “
There is also a chance for more “strange things” in other locations such as gaming.
“I love games,” said Matt Duffer. “That sounds like a good idea. I am open to that if they want to do that. There is definitely a board game … and I had them made a pinball box. “
As part of their deal with Netflix, the Duffers are the executive producers in the coming series ‘The Boroughs’ by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who created a thriller set in a pension community; As well as the horror series ‘Something is going to happen very bad’, by writer Haley Z. Boston, about the week before the fatal wedding of a few.
Matt Duffer said that “the cool part” of performing their upside down photos is shingle “to use that to help people like Haley, and show Jeff and Will’s. You know, we are fans. We like to watch TV and we Like to look at film.
Is there a franchise that the Duffers may want to tackle, perhaps in the comic book, SCI-Fi or Superhero Realm?
“I think this kind of painful for our agents, but no, not really,” said Matt Duffer. “If we have chips that we can cash in against ‘Stranger Things’, we should do something original.”
Added Ross Duffer, who pointed out that “Stranger Things” started as an original tribute to the kind of stories that inspired them: “Can we take these love, and in this case our youth and our friends and something completely unique and original do? That not the original goal or the plan was that this is so exciting for us that we want to follow that blueprint. “
