There’s still a little over a month to go before Stranger Things returns for its second season, but we’ve already heard that Netflix has renewed the supernatural drama series for a third season, while creators The Duffer Brothers have revealed that season four would likely be the last.
Well, as it turns out, Netflix was hoping to shoot the third and fourth season back-to-back, given that its young cast are ageing quickly. However, according to THR, the idea was vetoed by Matt and Ross Duffer, along with executive producers Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen, as they did not feel it would be possible for the show’s writer’s room to churn out the necessary number of episodes in the time avaialble.
The site goes on to report that “the plan is to create stories that feel true to where the actors are, in terms of age, at the time the episodes are shot.”
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It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demogorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
The second season of Stranger Things sees the return of cast members Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobbie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer and Joe Keery, along with new additions Sean Astin (The Goonies), Paul Reiser (Aliens), Linnea Berthelsen (The Desert), Sadie Sink (Odyssey), Dacre Montgomery (Power Rangers) and Brett Gelman (Brett Gelman’s Dinner in America). It will hit Netflix on October 27th.
Originally published September 18, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
