Happy Memorial Day, my dear strangers!
This is Mrs. Strange, and on today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over new
production details for Stranger Things 5 as well as rumors that season 5 will include
nine episodes!
As we come to the end of May, production for Stranger Things season 5 would have already
started by now or sometime later this week if it wasn’t for the writers strike happening
across the film industry.
The WGA is still protesting for better pay compensation, but unfortunately, it sounds
like the studios will not back down and offer better salaries.
With all of that said, it seems like more details from the production of season 5 have
been leaked to the public.
Specifically, we have what we might consider our very first set pictures of Stranger Things
5.
As you can see here, it seems like Hawkins High School has been prepared to start filming
as soon as the writers strike comes to an end.
This is a really good sign since pre-production has gone ahead, and that alone saves up a
lot of time and work.
Hawkins High will once again be a major location, and it’s fitting since this school has been
one of the most important locations of the series, and it has been that way since season
1.
The last we saw of the school, a huge crowd of civilians were stationed there after the
massive earthquake that opened up the portals to the Upside Down.
With the hellish dimension bleeding into Hawkins, it is safe to assume that the entire town
will be forced to quarantine and stay indoors.
I can’t help but think about “The Mist,” Stephen King’s horror novel from 1980 that
focuses on a group of survivors within a small town shrouded in a mist that conceals otherworldly
creatures.
Its film adaptation from 2007 was on the list of movies that were mentioned in the Writers
Room for season 4.
It won’t surprise me if Hawkins High will be the equivalent of the main supermarket
in The Mist, which was the primary setting for the story with all of the town’s civilians
quarantined inside and fighting off the monsters coming from the dense fog outside.
But who knows, maybe there will be more scenes of the gang in high school sometime after
the time jump.
In other news, we have an alleged report from the production website “Luminate” stating
that Stranger Things 5 will have nine episodes, much like the previous season.
The report also states that each one will be 60 minutes long, although I don’t believe
that tidbit for one bit because they can’t know that information until season 5 is shot
and edited already.
However, I do believe in the likelihood that Stranger Things season 5 will be longer than
expected.
There are so many main characters with their own storylines that need to be wrapped up,
including characters who have been benchwarmers for the past two seasons.
Nine episodes being written would also explain why the Duffer Brothers have taken a long
time to write season 5.
As someone who enjoyed how gigantic season 4 was, I want season 5 to be just as big if
not bigger, with feature length episodes that feel like movies.
Maybe that’s where the 60 minute runtime rumor came for each of these episodes, someone
may have been notified that season 5 will have every episode being longer than an hour.
With all of that said, this report is unverified, so please take this with a grain of salt.
I do want Stranger Things 5 to be the biggest and longest season of the series, so we shall
see if that’s the case.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today!
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