Happy Sunday, my dear strangers! This is Mrs. Strange, and on today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will talk about a filming update for Stranger Things 5 from
Noah Schnapp himself, as well as rumors that filming will last until summer 2024!
A few days ago, Noah Schnapp went on TikTok live, where he revealed that he’s finishing
up his spring semester at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. More importantly,
he shared with his audience that he’s going to film Stranger Things season
5 right afterwards and pretty much gave credence to the recent rumors regarding
the production of season 5 beginning in mid May. Here’s the short clip:
“I’m wrapping up my freshman year. This is my last week at school,
before I go to film for Stranger Things.”
People immediately started celebrating, and while this is all super enticing to hear,
we need to keep ourselves in check in case filming starts much later than that,
a topic that we will go over in a bit. I think what’s gonna happen in May is that
pre-production for season 5 will ramp up, and that the soundstages will be set up for filming,
which will now most likely begin in June. They will also be casting extras and location scouting.
As for Noah, he could be heading to Atlanta to start rehearsing for his role in season 5,
now that school is no longer a priority for him. With all of that said, we shall see if
Stranger Things 5 starts filming on May 15 if last week’s rumors are to be believed.
In other news, we have multiple reports and new casting calls for season 5 that not only
reveal new characters, but also the length of filming. We will go over the details regarding
the supposed new characters that will show up in the final season in a separate video, but
let’s delve into the big elephant in the room that has the entire fanbase arguing. Despite what Noah
Schnapp said early on in the year and the rumors that emerged from Deuxmoi last week, lots of signs
are pointing to a production start for filming in early June 2023. But what’s even crazier is
that according to multiple casting sources, the filming for Stranger Things season 5 is set to
be finished by June 2024. That means it will be an entire year of filming, slightly shorter than
season 4 if you count in the time they filmed right before the pandemic happened. Seeing
how this is the epic conclusion of the global phenomenon, it makes sense that they will take
a whole year of filming, especially since there will be a feature length series finale episode.
According to the website “whatsonnetflix.com,” the streamer will reportedly spend more than
$20 million on each episode in Stranger Things 5. I’m not entirely sure on whether we should
believe this site, but if it’s true, I think the budget is going to be way more than that
to be honest. We won’t hear about the final budget until the season is close to premiering,
since that’s what happened with Stranger Things 4. Season 4 cost around $30 million to make,
and although you can make an argument that they filmed in New Mexico and Lithuania, I think season
5 will have a lot more CGI and special effects considering the current state of Hawkins the last
time we saw it. It wouldn’t surprise me if every episode costs more than the ones in season 4.
With all of that said, we shall see when exactly Stranger Things season 5 will begin filming,
because there’s a lot of conflicting reports going around social media. It
definitely seems like we are close to a major announcement straight from Netflix
and the Duffer Brothers themselves. We should definitely hear official
news a few weeks into May, especially if production begins at the beginning of June.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today! Do you think the filming for Stranger Things
5 will last an entire year? And do you think season 5 will be the most expensive season yet?
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