C.recently included season 4, the the faithful and present audience immediately began to ask what will happen next: how will it be Stranger Things 5? We want to know, they say, to have certainties, anticipations, curiosities. And the authors are pleasing them, other than silence. To the point that the news of chapter 5 – expected in 2024 – there are already a lot of them.
Before organizing indiscretions and declarations, it is necessary to point out what cannot happen for sure. That is, the returns of the characters who have had a worse time, albeit much loved. It seems obvious, but an emphasis always applies when it comes to fiction.
Who will never come back and who still has hope
For instance the hated Dr. Brenner – died lonely and dead in the desert above the base that housed the secret laboratory in which Eleven recovered his powers. For instance Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), the metalhead also mentioned by Iron Maiden for the solo of their song Master of Puppets, and a great tragic figure who boldly launches himself into a battle that smacks of sacrifice-suicide. And even if Joseph said he was available to come back in any way and moment. Given its popularity, however, the last word is not said. In short, there is hope.
In a reserved prognosis – medical and actor – is instead Max (Zadie Sink), who died and then resurrected (in body, perhaps not in spirit) from Eleven. But his return is certainly undoubted, because even if “she’s blind and full of broken bones, ”the Duffers added,“ but she’s alive!“. And the girl is a nodal point of the plot, especially for the thread that binds her to Running up that hill by Kate Bush. Will she survive, will she come to her senses? Will Lucas take care of her until he coma he separates them?
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How much is missing and how long it will last Stranger Things 5
The episodes of the fifth season they will have a shorter duration than the grueling one and “cinematic” of the four, with the exception of the very last episode, hopefully a couple of hours long like a movie. “For the first time we have not provided a season finale that concludes the narrative arc, so we will return with a moving plot,” the brothers comment.
Characters they will already be involved in the action, in pursuit of pre-established objectives and goals. Each will be rewarded with a decisive story arc (potentially culminating even with death), so much so that instead of an ending there will be “like eight”.
The fourth and fifth seasons were designed to be shot one after the other, without pauses. A wise move, given that the appearance of the protagonist Millie Bobby Brown and the other young supporting actors it is increasingly inconsistent with the age of the respective characters.
But, due to Covid blocking the set, it is clear that the only way to overcome the inexorable passage of time will be to take a leap forwardthat is to say move the action a few years later with a flash-forward. Ross Duffer said: “I’m sure there will be a time jump, but the rest is still to be defined.”
The shooting start date is still uncertain, while the broadcast is set for 2024.
How will it end?
We left Eleven and the others contemplating a terrifying landscape: Hawkins submerged in smoke and ash, while the Upside down looms. “Many answers relating to the nature of the Upside Down will be given before the end, indeed these will form the basis of the fifth season “, Ross revealed.
The final episodes will see the light after a long and laborious gestation. The Duffers have laconically hinted at wanting to take it easy, every character (survivor) will have his storyline, the right space and answers. Producer JJ Abrams had also said so about that mess of Lostbut we are more confident.
“We know how it will end, we knew right away – said Matt. We could change the epilogue at the last moment, but it’s unlikely, because what we have chosen is the epilogue that seems right more than any other. The feeling is that it is inevitable, that it just has to be like that ».
The Duffers also revealed they asked for advice from Gilligan wins, creator of breaking Bad And Better Call Saul, on how to close the show, and his ideas were judged by the brothers much more interesting and exciting than those thought by them. However, they do not say whether they accepted them.
Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo, Maya Hawke, Sadie Sink and Caleb McLaughlin. (Netflix)
The spin-off of Stranger Things
Pursued by Netflix for the creation of a spin-off, the Duffers assure that they will carry out the project only if exciting. However they have already ventured to have some ideas.
First of all, characters other than the parent series (via Eleven and Jim Hopper), like the story, a long way from Hawkins. “We’ve already talked about Eleven, Steve and Dustin etc, we’re not interested in doing it again.”
Max (Sadie Sink) rescued from Kate Bush’s “Running up that hill” in Stranger Things 4 ″. (Netflix)
Defined as “1000% different”, and “Something that will share the same connective tissue with the originalthe same sensitivity in the narrative “, Stranger Things spin-off Elko will probably be managed by third parties, that is, another director will develop it. «We hope to find the right person to pass the baton to – say the brothers. Because we have already dedicated almost ten years of our life to Stranger Things ».
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