STRANGER THINGS: The Duffer Brothers Tease ‘Our Biggest and Most Ambitious Season Yet’
January 30, 2025 by Marisa Roffman

STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Cara Buono, Joe Keery, Amybeth McNulty, Charlie Heaton, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer, Jamie Campbell Bower, Priah Ferguson, Linda Hamilton, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer, Finn Wolfhard, and Sadie Sink of STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix © 2024
STRANGER THINGS’ fifth and final season is set to debut on Netflix in 2025…and The Duffer Brothers, who created the series, are promising big things for the last chapter of the story.
“We spent a full year filming this season,” Ross Duffer told reporters at the Next on Netflix event. “By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane.”
“At the same time, we think it’s our most personal story,” Matt Duffer added. “It was super intense and emotional to film—for us and for our actors. We’ve been making this show together for almost ten years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying. The show means so much to all of us, and everyone put their hearts and souls into it. And we hope—and believe—that passion will translate to the screen.”
Though the series is coming to an end, the franchise is living on: the play STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW is currently on the West End, and making its Broadway debut in March.
Plus, “There are more STRANGER THINGS stories to tell and in the works,” Matt teased. “It’s a bit early at this point to talk about them, but we’re deeply involved in every one—it’s very important to us that anything with the STRANGER THINGS name on it is of the highest quality and not repetitive—that it has a reason to exist and always blazes its own path. And also, it needs to basically just be…awesome. Or we need to think it’s awesome. And there are a lot of what we think are awesome things in the pipeline.”
Details are scarce about season 5, with the official logline saying, “A love letter to the ‘80s classic genre films that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is a thrilling drama set in the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, Indiana. After a boy vanishes into thin air, his close-knit group of friends and family search for answers and are pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events. Beneath the surface of their ordinary town lurks an extraordinary supernatural mystery, along with top-secret government experiments and a dangerous gateway that connects our world to a powerful yet sinister realm. Friendships will be tested and lives will be altered as what they discover will change Hawkins and possibly the world — forever.”
Season 5 stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty, Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux, and Linda Hamilton.
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