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On tonight’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the Duffers and Winona Ryder’s
new interview for Stranger Things season 4 from earlier today.
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Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer went to Deadline’s Contenders Television
event alongside the show’s lead actress, Winona Ryder.
They talked about how it’s been a long wait for Stranger Things 4, but they promise an
even greater payoff with the new season’s massively expanded scope and collective running
time greater than any of the previous installments.
“I mean we kind of jokingly call it our Game of Thrones season because it’s so spread
out, so I think that’s what’s unique or most unique about the season in that we have,
you know, Joyce and the Byers family to have left at the end of Season 3.
They are in California – we’ve always wanted to have that like ‘E.T’.-esque
suburb aesthetic, which we finally got to do this year in the desert; and then we have
Hopper in Russia; and then of course we have a group remaining in Hawkins.
So we have these three storylines, are all connected and kind of interwoven together,
but it’s just very different tones.”
Ross Duffer said that coming out of Season 3, the brothers knew the next chapter would
feature a string of disparate locations, which most likely ballooned the budget if we’re
pretty honest.
The show filmed in Atlanta for the first three seasons, but for season 4, it expanded to
New Mexico and parts of Lithuania.
The Duffers also said that Stranger Things 4 will start answering questions regarding
the Upside Down that viewers have been asking since the show’s premiere in 2016.
“I think we didn’t know how big the season was going to get, and we didn’t even realize
until we were about halfway through, just in terms of how much story that we wanted
to tell this season.
We also…
Game of Thrones is one thing we’ve referenced, but also for us really what it’s about is
revelations, in that we really wanted to start giving the audience some answers.
Back when we did Season 1, Netflix just kept going ‘Can you explain all this mythology
to us?’
So we wrote this giant 20-page document, which talked about everything in terms of what was
going on and what exactly the Upside Down was.
And then each season we’re just sort of peeling back the layers of that onion, so
to speak.
But this season, we really wanted to really get into it and give the audience some of
those answers.
But to do that properly, we needed time, so it just became bigger and bigger.”
Lastly, the Duffer brothers revealed the average length of every episode in Stranger Things
season 4, and it looks like they were not lying when they said the this season is twice
as big as the last season.
“I don’t think we have an episode clocking in under an hour – even in Season 1 there
were episodes that were like 35 minutes.
You kind of forget that.
his season, they’re very long, so I think it’s almost double the length of any other
season.
So that’s one reason it’s taken so long.
It does have this sort of epic quality to it.
It’s a different feel, for sure.”
It sounds like we’re in for a ride.
Winona Ryder also said a couple of tidbits regarding Joyce Byers, but we will go over
those in tomorrow’s episode.
We know fans are disappointed that the trailer didn’t come out, especially considering
that yesterday, we got the last two Saturday morning cartoons and the thumbnail for all
of the cartoon videos mashed up in one video literally said “Stranger Things 4 Official
Trailer.”
There is still a chance that we will get it this week, since it’s Easter week and the
events of season 4 take in the spring break week leading up to Easter in 1986.
Here’s hoping that we’ll see it very soon sometime in the near future.
Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for tonight.
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