Happy Wednesday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once more. On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will go over what Gaten Matarazzo had to say in regards to filming
Stranger Things season 4, as well as more set leaks.
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In an interview with Collider, Gaten Matarazzo revealed what it was like to film Stranger
Things 4 and how it was different filming this season compared to previous seasons.
Here’s the clip.
“The first couple of seasons, the goal was never to film before the show was finished
being written, that was never a goal. That’s just how it ended up happening the first three
seasons. We have a certain number of episodes, around five or six out of eight or nine is
usually what we’ll start filming with once those are written. And the goal is [The Duffer
Brothers] will direct and [then] write at home. They’ll be home and that’s when
they’ll write on the side and they’ll manage their workload that way, and how it’s
always worked out is we’re on like episode 4 or 5 and we haven’t seen episode 6 and
7 yet, and we have no idea what’s gonna happen and they haven’t written all of it
yet. So the pressure is usually on and when that happens, usually there’s like a 2-3
week hiatus where we’ll go home and take a break and during that 2-3 weeks Matt and
Ross are home and they are writing. Like non-stop, panic-writing. Like “I didn’t write my
essay and English class starts in 5 minutes” type of writing. That’s never ideal, but
honestly for some reason that spur-of-the-moment, ‘we gotta get this done,’ it seems to
me like that’s where a lot of their best work comes in. I don’t know if it’s the
pressure, I don’t know if it’s them being up all night caffeinated and they just have
really crazy frazzled brains that can write really weirdly. I don’t know if that assists
or not, but this year, because of COVID, there’s no excuse for them not to have the series
written completely. When we went in for our first table read which was February of 2020,
so last year, we expected to go right into filming and it was gonna be the same situation,
they were gonna start with episodes all the way up from 1 through 5 and we were probably
gonna do the same hiatus, but COVID hit and we only had like six episodes and so they
were like, ‘we might as well finish.’“
“Where are you in the filming process? Are you guys, cause of COVID, are you wrapping
in like June? Where-What’s going on?”
“There’s very few dates that are reliable. It really is more of a guesstimation on when
we’re gonna be filming next, when we’re gonna be wrapping up, when release is gonna
be, all that jazz because we still don’t know on day-to-day if we’re gonna be filming
next week. I should be filming like next month for like a big chunk, a bigger chunk than
I’ve had in a bit, but even though it’s coming up in about two weeks from now, I still
don’t know an exact date. So because of that, there’s really no way to figure out
when we’re gonna be wrapping. I think they’ve been able to relish in directing in their
day-to-day. There’s nothing else distracting [the Duffers] other than what we’re gonna
do today while we’re directing, and I asked them, ‘Do you guys sleep at night?’ they’re
like, ‘Literally we dream about directing this show. We go to sleep and we have dreams
that we’re just directing this show,’ it takes up their entire minds when they’re
making this. So I think it’s a good thing because now they can take their focus off
of what the show is going to be about, and now that they know it, they can focus on how
they’re going to deliver. And I think it shows.”
Well, that sounds very exciting! It seems like the Duffers are really prepared for this
season with all that extra time they received during the quarantine. Gaten Matarazzo confirmed
that he is filming sometime this upcoming month of April, most likely within 2 weeks
from now, so here’s hoping that we get set photos of him. Speaking of which, we have
a couple of set pictures that don’t show much but they’re from one of our fans visiting
Hawkins High. We got a new look at the school’s tiger mascot as you can see here, and we also
got some reports that production is happening inside of Screen Gems studios once again.
David Harbour also took a picture inside of Hopper’s cabin which still has the big hole
on the roof thanks to the Mind Flayer in the finale of the previous season. It seems like
he’s back there to film, as evidenced the chair in the background which looks like one
of those production chairs used by the crew in films and tv. I wonder what brings him
back here. Could it be a flashback, or could it be a sign that Hopper had returned home?
Either answer sounds enticing. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What do you think about these new set leaks for
Stranger Things 4? And what’s your take on what Gaten Matarazzo had to say about filming
the season?
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