Netflix has released a very early teaser trailer for “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,” a long-gestating live-action prequel spin-off that has been officially ordered to series.
The project is being announced on Stranger Things Day (November 6th) which marks the day Will Byers disappeared in the original show.
The series will be set in the Marion, Nevada in 1955, decades prior to the events of “Stranger Things,” the animated series “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85,” and years before those in the stage show “The First Shadow”.
Franchise creators Matt and Ross Duffer have also previously teased it will focus on the events prior to Henry Creel being exposed to the otherworldly substance that gave him his powers and turned him into Vecna.
The Duffer brothers and Kate Trefry co-created the show and executive produce while Trefry will serve as showrunner. Filmmaker Joe Wright will direct the first three episodes and executive produce.
Shawn Levy, Paul Dichter, Shelley Meals, Andrea Sperling, and Pavlina Hatoupis also executive produce the series which will film in New Mexico and is aiming for a 2028 release.
