Happy Thursday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once more! On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will talk about more interviews for Stranger Things 4, with the
cast claiming that season 4 Is Too “Disturbing” for Young Viewers!
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Stranger Things 4 is officially 8 days away, and the cast and crew keeps teasing that it
will be the darkest season of the franchise. When asked about it, Steve Harrington himself
Joe Keery said:
“I was like, “WOW, ok.” Kids will be scared. Kids will have nightmares. If I was a
kid and I was watching this, it would be disturbing.”
Caleb McLaughlin, who has been around since the beginning as Lucas, echoed the sentiment.
"When I watched this season, I was like ‘Wow, I don't think I would want my nephew to watch
this. It's very gory. It's a lot. It's really intense. We really took it up a notch."
Stranger Things season 4 returns the series to a darker, more horror-inspired tone. After
a particularly dark Season 2 that saw Will possessed and beloved character Bob die, the
Duffers said they were itching to do something more poppy and fun, hence Season 3’s mall
setting. Add in the fact that it came out on the 4th of July, and they refer to it as
their summer blockbuster season. After the trauma that the characters went through at
the end of that season, however, the Duffers stress that they didn’t want to brush any
of that under the rug. So for this season, Matt says,
“We kind of wanted to go in the opposite direction. We talked a lot about The Empire
Strikes Back, which is, maybe not now, but for a long time, it was the darkest movie
in Star Wars. We talked a lot about that and wanting to capture that tone.”
Part of that comes with the new big bad, Vecna, a sentient villain that they call their version
of a Pennywise, Pinhead, or Freddy Krueger. Interestingly enough, Freddy Kruger actor
Robert Englund actually appears in this season in a crucial role as the new intimidating
character, Victor Creel. As for Vecna, the Duffers revealed in a previous trailer breakdown
with IGN that the new villain was built with 90% practical effects with the help of Barrie
Gower, the makeup artist behind the radiation victims in HBO’s Chernobyl and the Night
King in Game of Thrones.
“Season 4 required a villain unlike any before,” executive producer Shawn Levy says.
“And it needed to be more than a creature, more than an evil cloud of particulate. It
needed to be a humanoid villain with more depth, more dimension, and far more evil.
That's what Vecna is.” Continuing on from yesterday’s topic, the Duffers and
Shawn Levy talked about the lengthy runtime that season 4 is set to have. Remember, the
season finale will be over 2 hours long! Levy in particular explains how certain episodes
are longer than movies he has directed ever since Stranger Things 4 went into production.
“I've released two movies in the time we've been making Season 4. We have multiple episodes
that are longer than both Free Guy and The Adam Project." For the record, Free Guy is
1 hour and 55 minutes long, and The Adam Project is 1 hour and 46 minutes long. Jesus Christ,
season 4 is going to be massive! “We really wanted to give as many of our characters as
we could their time to shine and to really work on their character development and their
arcs,” Ross Duffer says, explaining Season 4’s length. ”And we've talked about this
being a very revelatory season, in that there's a lot of stuff that we want to tell the audience
about and reveal in terms of the Upside Down and what is really happening here in Hawkins."
Here’s hoping that season 4 delivers with a scarier tone and longer episodes. Overall,
very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. Are you excited to see just how dark and scary
Stranger Things 4 is?
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