“Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer have scored a series order for their sci-fi drama series “The Boroughs”, which is being made primarily by “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” producers Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews.
First announced in July last year, the project falls under the Duffers’ overall deal with the streamer and is based on an original idea from Addiss and Matthews.
The series unfolds at a retirement community in the New Mexico desert where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have: time.
In a press release announcing the news on Thursday, the Duffers say:
“We’ve been fans of Jeff and Will’s writing for a long time, and when they pitched us their idea for The Boroughs, we immediately knew they had something very special on their hands.
While the heroes in The Boroughs have a few more years on them than the kids from Stranger Things, they are a similarly lovable bunch of misfits, and we can’t wait for you to join them on an adventure that is at turns scary, funny and deeply touching.”
Addiss and Matthews will serve as showrunners on the eight-episode series and will executive produce alongside the Duffers. Hilary Leavitt will also executive produce.
The project will join the upcoming fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” at Netflix for the Duffers, who are also developing a “Stranger Things” animated series and London stage show, an untitled live-action spin-off, and live-action adaptations of the manga “Death Note” and Stephen King and Peter Straub’s famed fantasy novel “The Talisman”.
Addiss and Matthews have most recently been working on the animated feature “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim”, which will debut theatrically in April next year.
Source: THR
