Stranger Things: The First Shadow Confirmed For Netflix, Providing One Final Piece to the Finale's Puzzle

Netflix volition merchandise a recorded mentation of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the franchise's unrecorded signifier amusement which includes important backstory for Henry Creel.

As reported by Collider, Netflix is expected to movie the amusement this week with its archetypal Broadway cast. A merchandise day for the filmed mentation has not yet been announced.

Fans person recognized Stranger Things: The First Shadow arsenic an important section of lore wrong the franchise, arsenic it answers questions astir Henry Creel, AKA the series' cardinal villain Vecna, that immoderate had expected from its divisive finale — and past from wrong the series' phantom other occurrence that immoderate fans incorrectly believed would follow.

A prequel to the main Stranger Things TV series, acceptable during Henry Creel's teenage years, The First Shadow shows the maturation of Creel's psychokinetic powers and yet reveals their existent origin. Audiences besides get to spot the proto-villain astatine schoolhouse with immoderate different acquainted faces, Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers (then Maldonado).

For fans, The First Shadow is simply a cardinal portion of the main series' story, truthful it makes consciousness that Netflix is present filming it for a wider assemblage who can't easy get to its Broadway oregon West End productions. Will its lore besides assistance calm those who inactive consciousness the TV series' last occurrence (and wider last season) didn't bash everything they wanted? Well, that remains to beryllium seen.

The First Shadow primitively launched successful London successful 2023, respective years earlier Stranger Things ended, but was ever planned to archer a communicative that dovetailed into the main show. Its publication was written by bid writer Kate Trefrey, who worked connected the crippled with Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer, arsenic good arsenic Adolescence and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child writer Jack Thorne.

The play besides features the quality of Dr. Martin "Papa" Brenner, whose TV histrion Matthew Modine precocious said helium disliked the series' finale and hoped "for the fans" that the conspiracy mentation astir a concealed final-final occurrence was really true. (It is not.)

"Stranger Things was a generational lawsuit that barreled into a bid finale with astir intolerable expectations surrounding it," IGN wrote successful our reappraisal of the Stranger Things bid finale. "The Duffers surely evolved into the palmy blockbuster directors they truthful admired successful their childhoods, but their enduring bequest volition beryllium mostly doing close by a formed of characters who beguiled the globe."

While the main bid whitethorn person ended, there's inactive plentifulness much Stranger Things to travel arsenic good arsenic The First Shadow. The Duffer Brothers are present moving connected a caller live-action TV spin-off with caller characters, and we've already got our archetypal look astatine Stranger Things '85, an animated bid showing further adventures with the archetypal pack portion they were younger.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social