Happy Tuesday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once more! On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the Duffer Brothers going over potential spin-offs
for Stranger Things after the main show ends with season 5.
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Tomorrow, we are going to be EXACTLY 1 MONTH away from the premiere of the long awaited
Stranger Things 4. As we get closer to the penultimate chapter in the Stranger Things
saga, we should ahead at what’s potentially coming after the series ends with season 5.
The news of the Duffer Brothers having the show's end in sight was no doubt disappointing
for many, but it looks like the franchise may be continuing. During an interview with
SFX Magazine, the Stranger Things' creators revealed they are open to a continuation or
spinoff of the franchise, but it needs to be an idea they are truly excited about. Ross
Duffer elaborated that they don't want to just do something they've done before and
said while they will be "heavily involved" if a spinoff happens, somebody else would
be hired to run the "day-to-day basis" of a future project. Matt Duffer said:
“We haven’t told anyone our plans! Not even Netflix! We have some ideas. In terms
of if we were to do any sort of a spin-off, or any continuation of Stranger Things, for
us the bar was always, ‘Is the idea exciting enough that we feel the pull of wanting to
do it again?’ I want to feel the pull of, ‘God, I really want to do this. I feel really,
really excited about this.’ So that’s why we’re being careful about what that
is and whether we move forward with it or not.”
It’s nice to see that whatever they have in mind hasn’t been revealed yet to anyone,
meaning that any speculation regarding the spin-offs is up for us to theorize. Ross Duffer
said:
“The key for us is that it needs to feel like its own distinct thing, not that we’re
just retreading what we’ve already done, because what would be the point of that? I
do think we have something that could be pretty exciting. So we’ll see…”
With how much the franchise has expanded in the past six years, there are plenty of
avenues Netflix could take for Stranger Things spinoffs. Trailers for Stranger Things season
4 hint that the Upside Down has been affecting the human world since the '50s, with the murders
at the Creel House seeming to be a main storyline. Since that takes place around 30 years before
the events of Stranger Things season 1, there is ample space to further expand the
franchise without overlapping with the current show. This may be a better route to take over
giving an already established character a spinoff. Should Stranger Things season 5
end on a high note, it could be a mistake to continue one character's storyline without
the other cast members. With the show being one of Netflix's most popular franchises,
a spinoff seems rather likely. Netflix has plenty of other valuable IPs, but the streamer
is probably already thinking about how they can continue after Stranger Things 5 ends. That
being said, it will be a while before a Stranger Things spinoff sees the light of day, even
though the Duffer Bros already have ideas. They are no doubt focused on sticking the
landing for the show's final two seasons because should the ending not be well-received, a
spinoff could be scrapped no matter how good the idea is. We shall see what the spin-offs
will be about sometime in the near future. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What story ideas do you have for a Stranger Things
spin-off?
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