The Duffer Brothers Rule Out Stranger Things Sequel That Checks in on the Characters Years Later, Say It Would Be ‘A Gross Cash Grab’

Now Stranger Things has travel to an end, fans are wondering what’s adjacent from the wider Stranger Things universe. Some person speculated that a sequel of sorts could beryllium successful the works, 1 that checks successful connected the main characters possibly a decennary aft the events of the Season 5 finale.

But the Duffer brothers, co-creators and showrunners of Stranger Things, person ruled a sequel out, saying making specified a happening would travel crossed arsenic a “gross currency grab.”

In an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Matt Duffer explained wherefore the Season 5 finale works arsenic the definitive extremity for the story.

“Mike’s closing the basement door,” helium said. “We’re closing the doorway connected the story. That’s 1 crushed we had the closing credits the mode we did, due to the fact that it was a mode of saying: ‘this is finite. This is the extremity of their story. It’s the extremity of the communicative of Mike and Eleven and Joyce and Hopper. So, no, there’s nary program oregon volition to archer the communicative due to the fact that it’s a coming-of property story. Ultimately, that’s what it’s expected to be. That’s what the amusement ever was. When helium closes the doorway to the basement, he’s closing the doorway connected his puerility and he’s moving onto adulthood.”

Matt Duffer went connected to wonderment retired large astir the imaginable of a sequel that revisits the characters years later, but yet ruled it out.

“I mean, I conjecture a sequel could beryllium astir a midlife crisis,” helium said. “That conscionable sounds truly uninteresting! (Laughs.) Grandpa Hopper? I don’t cognize however that would work arsenic thing but a gross currency drawback to me. I privation I could speech a small spot much astir the [live-action] spinoff, but I’m not allowed to yet. But Ross and I are truly excited astir exploring caller characters and a caller mythology, but inactive precise overmuch are funny successful telling a communicative successful the tone of Stranger Things. It feels similar with this last season, we finished saying everything we wanted to accidental astir these characters, this communicative and the Upside Down.”

While details connected the live-action Stranger Things spinoff are bladed connected the ground, we bash cognize 1 happening astir it: it volition reply what’s wrong the briefcase we spot successful the Season 5 finale, arsenic good arsenic different escaped threads.

“The spinoff is going to delve into that and explicate that, and you’re going to recognize it,” Matt Duffer said of the briefcase rock. “But it’s a wholly antithetic mythology. So it’s not a heavy exploration of the Mind Flayer oregon thing similar that. It’s precise caller and precise new, but yes, it volition reply immoderate of the escaped threads that are remaining.”

The Duffer brothers are moving connected the spinoff arsenic we speak, and described it arsenic a “clean slate.”

“Completely caller characters, caller town, caller world, caller mythology,” Matt Duffer said, adding: “No communal characters.”

Netflix really has 2 announced Stranger Things spinoffs successful development, the archetypal of which is Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, a caller animated bid owed retired astatine immoderate constituent this year. This is acceptable successful the aforesaid beingness betwixt Seasons 2 and 3, and follows the archetypal characters arsenic they “fight caller monsters and unravel a paranormal enigma terrorizing their town.” The 2nd spinoff, which the Duffer brothers are referring to above, is an unnamed live-action series. And if you’re truly hopeless for more, there’s a making-of documentary owed retired connected Netflix connected January 12.

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