The wait for Stranger Things’ fifth and final season is already under way, and excitement for the wildly successful series is already reaching feverish levels. Nielsen rated the series as the most streamed TV show and overall programme of 2022, and now star Noah Schnapp has shared some fresh details about the making of Stranger Things 5.
During an Instagram Live session, a fan questioned Schnapp, who plays Will Byers on the show, about whether his studies would prevent him from working on the Netflix series’ final season. Schnapp said that there would not be any crossover because he finishes school this May and starts work on the fifth season at the same time.
The Duffer Brothers, who created the series, have teased details about what viewers can expect from the final trip to Hawkins, Indiana. The series isn’t expected to air on Netflix until some time in 2024, by which time the kids in the cast will probably be married with their own children or celebrating retirement, given the length of time production typically takes.
Ross Duffer told Netflix via their Tudum website, “The popularity of Season 1 frightened us out and then we knew we wanted to build out this wider world, that this was going to be ongoing.” In order to prepare for Season 2, the writers’ room had to jot down any concept they could think of on a whiteboard. However, it was far too much.
Dedicated viewers of the show will be able to recall that the second season of the show, which followed a first season in which Schnapp was billed as a guest star, was heavily centred on Will Byers and explored both his ongoing relationship with the Mind Flayer and his recovery from being trapped in the Upside Down for an extended period of time by the creature. The second season also elaborated on Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) enigmatic history, notably her time growing up in Hawkins Laboratory as an experimental project, a subject that was further explored in season 4.
That included her relationship with Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower), whom she sent into the Upside Down in an act of precocious strength and power, banishing him there but also causing him to change into the terrifying creature Vecna, who spent the entire fourth season haunting and terrorising the young people of Hawkins.
The Upside Down naturally started to bleed into Hawkins by the end of the season, and there were literally cracks developing between the realms, leaving our heroes to fight for their very lives. The first four seasons of Stranger Things are now streaming on Netflix.
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