When stranger things ends at the end of this year, it will be the fulfillment of something the Duffer brothers have been thinking about for a long, long time. Not just the show as a whole, but specifically, the final scene of the show.
“We’ve known for a long time what the final scene of the show was going to be, which gave us a north star,” Matt Duffer said. the hollywood reporter. “But in many of the details, we and our writers followed the story and the characters in ways that often surprised us.”
Showrunners and creators often say that kind of thing when their big show or movie series comes to an end, but for the Duffers, we know it’s true. Back in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, they also said the same thing. “We’ve known the end of the show for quite some time,” Matt Duffer said five years ago. “We really didn’t know if we would go beyond the first season, so we liked the idea that the first season could basically function as a standalone piece, almost like a limited series. But it had the potential to go beyond that. And if it went beyond that, we had an idea of where it would go. Yes, and we have an ending in mind.”
However, that middle ground is the main thing that has changed in that time. In 2020, the Duffers were working on Stranger Things 4 which, as we now know, ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, practically promising a new season. But they also knew that they couldn’t just think about the ending they had in mind. Each season has had to work on its own.
“We always try to make each season as good as possible, rather than stressing about the ending,” Ross Duffer said today. “It’s very difficult when people have to plan three movies in advance. First you have to make a good movie. And the fact that we grew up not watching much television and only watching movies, is the reason why we ended up calling them stranger things 2 and stranger things 3instead of seasons two and three. We wanted everyone to have their own identity and feel very different. It kept us from getting bored. The moment we got bored, we knew we would have to end the show because the creative would suffer.”
Of course, the Duffers didn’t say how this season and the show will end. And we wouldn’t want them to. It’s been quite a journey and we’re so excited to see what the brothers have had in mind all this time.
stranger things 5 will be released in three parts over the next month or so. It begins with Volume 1 on November 26, continues with Volume 2 on December 25, and then the finale on December 31.
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