David Harbour Drops Out of Upcoming Movie From the Creator of Andor, Allegedly to Rest After Feeling ‘Overwhelmed’ by Stranger Things Wrap Up

David Harbour has dropped retired of an upcoming movie starring Pedro Pascal, Eva Victor, Olivia Wilde, and Matthew Lillard, allegedly to remainder aft feeling “overwhelmed” by the wrapping up of Netflix amusement Stranger Things.

Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper successful Stranger Things, has exited Behemoth!, the play from Rogue One writer and Andor creator Tony Gilroy, Variety confirmed.

Variety said “multiple insiders acquainted with the task said Harbour was overwhelmed by the bid wrapper of Stranger Things — a monthslong episodic rollout and planetary h2o cooler infinitesimal with aggravated property scrutiny — and stepped distant from the task to rest.”

It is not known who volition present play David Harbour’s recast character.

Stranger Things came to an extremity connected New Year’s Eve with a 2-hour finale that saw Hopper and the remainder of the characters yet decision Vecna. It closes the doorway connected a amusement that began connected Netflix astir a decennary ago, with the value of anticipation of a immense online fandom that has spent years digging done each detail.

In June past year, Harbour indicated that helium was acceptable to beryllium hanging up the badge. "You get to a definite constituent wherever you’re like, 'How overmuch much communicative is there?' You’re having to play a batch of the aforesaid beat," Harbour told Scarlett Johansson during a speech for Interview Magazine. "And there’s a feeling wherever you’re like, 'I privation to instrumentality a risk. I privation to bash thing that radical haven’t seen maine bash before.' So yeah, aft 10 years, it’s like, 'Okay.'"

Two years prior, Harbour said helium didn’t privation to beryllium tied to the Netflix amusement forever, and adjacent suggested he’d springiness up TV acting altogether erstwhile Stranger Things wrapped up.

He said: "It’s a comic presumption I’m in, which I ne'er thought I would beryllium in. The archetypal twelvemonth of Stranger Things, I retrieve having a treatment with a publicist and her saying: ‘maybe you don’t privation to beryllium associated with the amusement truthful much.'

"I was like, ‘Why? I emotion this show. I emotion the character.’ And I bash emotion the show. And I bash emotion the character. But I don’t privation to beryllium conscionable that character. I don’t privation to beryllium conscionable that guy."

Harbour compared himself to George Clooney during his clip playing Doug Ross connected aesculapian play bid ER, saying the present incredibly palmy and celebrated movie prima was erstwhile conscionable "the feline from ER.”

"I'm trying to navigate immoderate of that, and it’s tricky due to the fact that you don’t privation to s**t connected the radical that emotion you for this happening that you did that you besides love," Harbour added.

"But astatine the aforesaid time, you benignant of privation to permission the nest. I got much successful me. I got antithetic worldly successful me, and I privation you guys to spot that. I don’t privation radical yelling ‘Hopper’ connected the thoroughfare each 5 minutes the remainder of my life."

Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour astatine the Stranger Things Season 5 premiere connected November 6, 2025 successful Hollywood, California. Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix.

In November, Harbour and Eleven histrion Millie Bobby Brown appeared astatine a high-profile Stranger Things Season 5 reddish carpet premiere, posing unneurotic for a bid of cosy photos but steering wide of media interviews.

At the aforesaid event, manager Shawn Levy and Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer were some asked astir the concern betwixt the series' stars, pursuing the work conscionable days earlier of a Daily Mail study that stated Brown had lodged "harassment and bullying" complaints against Harbour and had subsequently been accompanied by a idiosyncratic adjunct whenever connected set.

Harbour plays Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and starred successful past year’s Thunderbolts*. He is acceptable to reprise the relation successful Avengers: Doomsday, owed retired this December.

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