“Stranger Things” co-creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer have confirmed that a “Stranger Things” spin-off is in development.
As fans of the fantasy series await the supersized final two episodes of the fourth season this coming Friday, they’re also braced for the fact that the show’s currently in the works fifth season will be the last.
The Duffers haven’t officially announced a spin-off, but have previously teased “there are still many more exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things; new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes.”
Now though, speaking with Deadline, the pair confirms they’re working on it and tease it won’t be anything like you expect:
Ross Duffer: “There’s a version of it developing in parallel [to season 5], but they would never shoot it parallel. I think actually we’re going to start delving into that soon as we’re winding down and finishing these visual effects, Matt and I are going to start getting into it.”
Matt Duffer: “The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, ‘Is this something I would want to make regardless of it being related to Stranger Things or not?’ And definitely. Even if we took the Stranger Things title off of it, I’m so, so excited about it. But it is not… It’s going to be different than what anyone is expecting, including Netflix.”
The comments come as the first volume of the fourth season has dominated the Netflix Top 10 for weeks, and has only just been knocked off its perch by the third season of “The Umbrella Academy” which arrived this week on the service.
Even so, that run released in late May has broken all manner of English-language records for the service and has pushed Kate Bush’s famed 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” up to the top of the charts globally following its key role in the fourth episode’s emotional ending.
