- We're movie nerds.
Like, we wanted, that's what we came out here to do,
to make movies.
We fell in love with movies when we were
really, really young.
And then, you know, we started to see this shift
happening,
and we started to become obsessed with television,
and really excited about what was happening
in television.
And we started to see television becoming
more and more cinematic.
And a lot of that has to do with people like,
you know, directors we idolized,
like David Fincher or Soderbergh moving in
the TV space.
So we started talking about what,
you know, if we were gonna do a television show,
what that would look like.
And what would be cool,
and what hasn't been done on television before.
- 99 out of 100 times, kid goes missing,
the kid is with a parent or relative.
- Well what about the other time?
- What?
- You said 99 out of 100,
what about the other time?
The one?
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- Who would you say are the directors then
mostly inspired you?
- Ah, I mean Spielberg, obviously,
is a big one.
John Carpenter's a big one.
And Wes Craven, particularly Nightmare on Elm Street,
was a huge influence on us growing up.
And then Steven King is obviously not a film maker,
but just his, those,
you know his big fat novels that we would read
growing up were just, you know,
we wanted to try and capture a little bit of that feeling
again, with the show.
- Yeah, and then, those are specifically the 80s,
but then there's directors like David Fincher
and stuff who, you know,
today kind of like our modern day inspirations,
you know, and stuff.
And we do take inspiration from them in terms of
his approach, the way he shoots,
and the way he uses music,
and so, I mean,
we take inspiration from all sorts of different places.
- [Mike] Something's coming,
something hungry for blood.
- What is it?
- [Mike] The Demogorgon.
(all groaning)
- We're in deep shit.
(laughing)
- I've heard that you casted over a thousand people,
and for the kids,
and you said yesterday that you even have nightmares
that the kids would grow up too fast.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Especially Caleb, is like 14,
he's like two years older, the kid who plays Lucas,
he's two years older than everyone else.
I'm just waiting for the day when he just,
is two feet taller.
- But right now, it was Gaten, and Gaten, who plays Dustin,
was changing so much,
just during the course of the shooting.
Luckily you can't really tell,
but by the time you're doing ADR,
you know, when you're recording dialogue,
in post production,
we couldn't use him because his voice had dropped so much.
So it terrifies me.
Just because it's not like a movie, where,
you know, you're shooting for just a month or two,
we're shooting for half a year.
And so it terrifies me what the hell could happen
to them in half a year.
- Is there anyway that you could reach him?
- Yes.
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(screaming)
- Nancy!
- Go, go, go!
- What if this whole time I've been looking for Will,
I've been chasing after something else?
- There are so many fans out there of
Stranger Things.
What can they look forward to in the next season?
- Ah, I think--
- Well, if there is a next season,
I mean I think, for us,
what we want to do,
we do want to bring back all these characters,
that hopefully people have fallen in love with.
But we do want to do something different with them,
and I think we want to take it a little bit
to some darker places, maybe.
And you know, a little bit bigger,
and I don't know we're excited.
I mean, we've been talking about what it could be,
and we're excited about all the possibilities.
- But I think it's interesting in this season,
you know, right away, within you know,
10 minutes, the kid, Will goes missing.
And so, and so everyone's at a 10 right away.
So structurally, season two would be more sort of gradual,
ramp up,
until it gets absolutely insane by the final episode.
So it's gonna feel structurally and tonally
a little different.
I mean, we like sequels that aren't
too repetitive.
You know,
I like sequels that don't follow the exact same beast,
as the originals.
But there's not a lot of great examples
of great sequels.
But there are a few great sequels.
And those are the ones we're kind of taking--
- Yeah, we're trying.
- Inspiration from.
So hopefully we do something good.
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