Sean Marshall Netflix’s Stranger Things will end following its five-season run. Rumors of a spinoff hit the internet months ago, but we finally got confirmation that Netflix will be working on a spinoff of the popular Stranger Things series. The Duffer Brothers sat down with the Happy Sad Confused podcast & discussed the plans for the spinoff series.
The Duffer Brothers said “Hopefully we find that right person to pass the baton to while we go on to do new stuff. The Duffer Brothers said that they are “really jazzed” about passing on the torch & let fans know that the spinoff series will be “1000% different” from Stranger Things.
The Duffer Brothers added: “I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff, or that it’s another number. That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that. We’ve spent, I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that. So it’s very different. The most important connective tissue, I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it,” they continued. There is a story that connects to the ‘Stranger Things’ world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.”
With the spinoff being vastly different from its predecessor, this could mean that this will go full horror or go with an overall light tone. I’m hoping the spinoff ends up being a prequel, especially since there’s so much to flesh out & explore in the past. At least we know this won’t follow the familiar trope of focusing on a character from the Stranger Things crew years later.
