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On today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will talk about another new update for Stranger
Things 5 from an industry insider.
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We seem to be getting a sudden onslaught of new updates for Stranger Things season 5.
After the Duffers, Shawn Levy, and certain cast members attended a Los Angeles event
on Sunday night to share some news, we got yet another minor update from Collider’s
Steven Weintraub.
For those who don’t know, Weintraub is a film and tv media journalist who has interviewed
the cast and crew in several occasions over the years, including this past summer when
it came to the split volume release of Stranger Things 4.
Steven Weintraub has also dealt with zoom interviews and revealing more info from the
people working on the show, most notably letting everybody know that post-production on season
4 volume 2 was still being done less than 24 hours before the episodes came out on July
1.
According to Steven Weintraub in this newest update, season 5 films next year in Atlanta,
which means that the earliest it comes out on Netflix is 2024.
He also mentions that the entire VFX industry is behind on everything so there won’t be
another scenario like the CGI and special effects being rushed like they were for volume
2 less than a day before it came out.
It’s nice to see that we finally have some confirmation that season 5 will begin filming
in Atlanta, and even though no date is officially set, we can definitely expect them to start
rolling the cameras sometime between late spring and late summer, especially if we go
back to the Duffer Brothers claiming that they only just finished the script for the
first episode a couple of weeks ago.
At the rate we’re going, the table read for Stranger Things 5 will probably happen
sometime in April or May, and production on the epic finale should begin right after.
The one piece of new information that stands out here is that according to Weintraub, the
entire VFX industry will be working on season 5.
That is shocking news to me, and it lets me think that Stranger Things season 5 will entirely
take place in the Upside Down, or more like Hawkins and Planet Earth as a whole infected
by the Upside Down as seen in the ending for season 4.
By using every VFX studio in the film industry for this show, it lets you know just how big
season 5 will be compared to previous seasons.
The budget for every episode in season 4 cost 30 million dollars to make, for a grand total
of roughly 270 million, making it the most expensive Netflix series ever made and the
second most expensive tv series of all time after Amazon’s Lord of the Rings.
With this new tidbit, one must assume if season 5 will be even more expensive than season
4, even if the episode count is one episode less and the Duffers claiming that the episodes
won’t be as long.
As for the release date, it honestly depends on when exactly production will begin and
when it’ll stop, especially if the last episode will be feature length and run at
two and a half hours like “The Piggyback” for Stranger Things 4.
I am changing my prediction from summer 2024 to late 2024, around late fall or early winter
in December.
We have yet to get a Stranger Things season that takes place in the winter, and what better
way to bring the series as whole by going back to its season 1 routes and utilizing
Christmas lights in the war against the Upside Down?
We shall see when more updates for Stranger Things season 5 come out.
Overall, super exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
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