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On today’s third episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about an interview with the Duffer
Brothers, where they revealed more details about the Stranger Things spinoff.
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Stranger Things co-creators the Duffer Brothers have spoken in the past about their ideas
for a potential spin-off series.
However, in a recent interview with Collider, the duo said that the stories they tell will
be completely different.
During a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, the Duffers
said that the spin-off series will be “1000% different” from the Stranger Things fans
know and love, and that their idea is actually to develop it with the intention of handing
it off to a different director.
When asked about it, Matt Duffer said: “I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be
an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff or that it’s
another number.
That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that.
We’ve spent I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that.
So it’s very different.”
While there will be links between the two shows, the Duffers said they’re more focused
on the tonal through lines between the main Stranger Things series and this proposed spinoff.
“The most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility
of it.
There is story that connects to the ‘Stranger Things’ world, but it really is more about
how we’re telling that story.”
To that end, the brothers discussed the impetus for creating Stranger Things in the first
place, as a response to the glut of “gritty and grounded” blockbuster films that permeated
the 2000s.
Matt Duffer said: “I get when people say ‘Stranger Things’ is just a love letter
or homage to these films, but really it was more us trying to recapture that style of
storytelling, or that storytelling sensibility that seemed to have gone out of fashion.
We moved into the 2000s, and I love Chris Nolan, but everything became dark and real
and grounded.
We wanted to bring back that more not ironic, sincere, adventure, family storytelling that
just seemed to have gone away with the exception of ‘Super 8’, nobody was doing it.
And ‘Super 8’ was kind of a one-off.
I loved ‘Super 8’ but then it was just gone.
No one else did it.
And I do think there was an appetite – or that’s what I hoped – for this type of
storytelling, so that really more than anything is what it is, is trying to stay in that zone.”
No timetable has been given for when this Stranger Things spin-off may come to fruition,
and right now the Duffer Brothers are gearing up to start writing the fifth and final season
of the iconic Netflix series.
But fans will certainly be intrigued to learn that this spinoff may be less strictly connected
to Stranger Things than many were expecting.
Lastly, the Duffers explained that this spin-off will need to be done by someone else.
“The idea, ultimately, is to pass the baton to someone else, someone who’s hopefully
really talented and passionate.
Because by the time we're done with this, it's going to have been...
God, it's going to be almost have been 10 years.
It's going to be more or less my entire 30s.
So it would be another five to ten-year commitment on this thing.
I don't think you can go half in.
I was telling this to somebody else, there's not really a great version of us, say, doing
a pilot and then abandoning it.
Even the idea of Ross and I, say, doing a pilot and leaving it, it just feels silly
to me.
You really need to be there from the beginning to end.
I think we need to find a partner to help us with that.”
Well, there is a lot to unpack here.
It sounds like this spinoff will not be anything that any of us are expecting.
Even something as outlandish as a series surrounding Suzie and her family seems unlikely.
My guess is that the show will exist in the same world and make one reference to it, like
a character mentioning a myth about a small town in the 80s experiencing a strange earthquake,
and that’s about it.
Maybe this show will take place in the modern day?
We shall see.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
What do you think this Stranger Things spinoff will be about?
Who should direct it if the Duffer Brothers won’t be in charge of it?
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