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I will talk about what David Harbour said about Stranger Things 4 at New York Comic-Con.
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This past weekend, David Harbour was at New York Comic-Con, where he was asked
about his role as Hopper in Stranger Things 4, and any details he can say
about the plot of the season. To quote what Entertainment Weekly said about the event;
he began by referencing the teaser videos that have come out already: one revealing Harbour's
return as Chief Jim Hopper after his uncertain fate at the end of season 3, another showing
how Dr. Martin "Papa" Brenner plays a part with Eleven forced to confront demons from her past,
that brief sizzle reel with a bunch of footage, and also the latest unveiling of the Creel House.
One more is coming our way soon, Harbour prefaced. "There are these story lines… one of which is me
in Russia, which you've seen with From Russia With Love," he joked of Hopper becoming a prisoner in a
Russia camp. The actor mentioned The Great Escape and David Fincher's Alien 3 as inspirations for
the fourth season. "You've seen that there is a Demogorgon in this prison from last season.
I think they also talked about Alien 3, the Fincher Alien, where they're tapped in prison
with a monster," Harbour continued. "This is a Hopper trying to get home to his family element,
which is really incredible. A lot of the things that you wanted to [see] in terms of Hopper and
where he's going. I think you're gonna see more development of the Joyce/Hopper relationship and
then you're gonna see more of the Hopper/Eleven development. To me, it's the deepest season we've
gotten to go with him and the most self-aware. He starts to really uncover these truths that we've
only hinted at before." I find it very interesting that he mentions that we’ll see more of Joyce and
Hopper’s relationship. Maybe they’ll finally end up together at the end of this season?
Harbour previously compared Hopper’s role in season 4 to that of Gandalf in the Lord of the
Rings series. "You have a whole character who is Gandalf the Gray who fights Balrog, sends
it to Hell, and re-emerges as Gandalf the White. There's a rebirth to him
this season and a coming to terms with this toxicity that he's carried around with him.
This trauma, really. You'll get to see a lot more specifically of what those traumas were,
which I've always wanted to get into. Those are cardboard boxes in the attic: my dad and Vietnam.
We got into a lot more layers with him. He has all these twists and turns and also, there's a
tremendous arc of redemption, which plays out in each season. But on a broad scale, you'll start to
see we're really arching toward the end of this redemption, which, to me, is very beautiful."
In terms of his role in the season and other subplots, Harbour really couldn’t contain his
excitement. "I think I have the best storyline," he said with a laugh. "And then you'll see a
lot more layers about Eleven and Brenner and the institution and what she went through and is going
through that relates to this narrative coming back. And then there's this new Creel House thing,
which is this new element of a situation in Hawkins, which of course all relates."
The Creel House was the focus of the third teaser, being home to a man named Victor Creel,
played by Nightmare on Elm Street legend Robert Englund. Victor is now hospitalized in Pennhurst
Mental Hospital after, as the teaser suggests, potentially murdering his own family years
earlier, though I’m of the opinion that he was possessed or a whole other entity was responsible.
Based on the footage we've seen thus far, it's a location that seems to have some
sort of connection to the Upside Down. And David Harbour says we will get to learn more about it.
"What we're trying to do, as we elaborate this thing, [is] to draw it back and make
sure that we don't have an end game like, some of us thought about, that show “Lost.” 'What happened
to the polar bear?!'" Harbour continued to joke with the audience. "We're trying to draw in,
so the [elements of the story line] starts to come to a head and becomes a complete piece.
Season 4 lays a lot of pipe for that." Stranger Things 4 will take viewers far beyond Hawkins,
not just to Russia, but also to the Byers’ new home after the family had enough with their
hometown and its spooky shenanigans. Harbour feels season 4 is "the deepest season we've got to go"
with Hopper. He mentions the "cardboard boxes in the attic" hinting at his own family's past.
"We start to really uncover these truths that we've only hinted at before," he said.
Then there's the action element to it. Harbour promises there's "tremendous action to it — action
on a level that we've never done before." Here’s hoping that Hopper makes it back safe
and sound in Stranger Things 4. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What do
you think about these new details for Stranger Things 4 from David Harbour?
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