Netflix is still keeping almost all the details about the upcoming animated series in the Stranger Things universe under wraps — other than that it’s being developed by Eric Robles (Funboy and Chum Chum, The Glucose Techniques) and Flying Bark Productions.
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Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers will join the project as executive producers from Upside Down Pictures, along with 21 Laps’ Sean Levy and Dan Cohen.
“We’ve always dreamed of doing Stranger Things in the spirit of the Saturday morning cartoons we’ve loved since childhood, and to see that dream come to life would be incredible. We’re thrilled with what Eric Robles and his team have come up with – the script and artwork are incredible, and we can’t wait to share the news with you! The adventures continue…,” the Duffer brothers said in a statement.
The series “Stranger Things”, which tells the story of the inhabitants of the fictional town of Hawkins, affected by paranormal phenomena, debuted in 2016 and almost immediately became a global hit. The main roles in the show were played by Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp and others.
The fourth season, released last spring, had the best start among Netflix series with 286.79 million hours watched. And in its first 28 days, viewers watched Stranger Things 4 for a total of more than one billion hours — a new record for an English-language series on the streaming service. The show’s fourth season was also named the best TV series of 2022 by IMDb.
In February 2022, the show was renewed for a fifth and final season, and in July it was announced the creation of a theater performance “Very Stranger Things”, which will debut in London. Probably, the fifth season of the series will be shorter than the fourth, and the first episode will be called “Chapter One: The Crawl”.
The Duffer brothers previously hinted at a Stranger Things spin-off on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, which would be handled by a different writer. This work, according to them, “will be 1000% different from the main show and there will be almost no familiar characters in it.” At the same time, the 1980s fantasy atmosphere that distinguished the original show will remain.
The Duffers, according to Variety, are currently working on a television adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime series Death Note, as well as a series adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book Talisman with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Paramount Television.
