Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer recently opened up about the upcoming fourth season of the series, which fans have been eagerly waiting to see since the summer of 2019! Well, Season 4 is coming soon and the creators recently opened up about a few things regarding the series that is sure to get fans even more pumped up for what’s coming.
During Deadline’s Contenders Television panel Matt Duffer called this season their Game of Thrones season. “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.”
He went on to say that there isn’t any episode this season that clocks in at under an hour and says that it has an epic quality, “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. This season, they’re very long, so I think it’s almost double the length of any 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.”
When talking about the settings and tones for the new season Matt said they wanted to include that E.T’.-esque suburb aesthetic, “Joyce and 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 goes on to explain that halfway through the season, they realized they needed to add an additional episode to tie together everything that they started, “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. 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.”
Duffer then talked about how they explained the mythology to Netflix at the very beginning and how as they continued their journey, it just got bigger and bigger, “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 [revealing] some of those answers. But to do that properly, we needed time, so it just became bigger and bigger.”
It’s going to be really cool and interesting to actually start getting some answers to questions that we’ve had, especially involving the nature of the supernatural events that have been plaguing the citizens of Hawkins.
The Duffers also acknowledged that they realize the ‘80s timeline of the series is coming to the point that catches up with Winona Ryder in the real world with the time that Beetlejuice was released in theaters. Matt said, “That’s the threshold we can’t cross, which is once Winona is a superstar in the world, like the show has to stop, because [the kids’ heads] will spontaneously combust or something.”
Ross joked, “That’s the final scene: the kids go to see Beetlejuice and their heads explode.” Which would be hilarious!
It sounds like the upcoming season of Stranger Things is going to deliver something special and I have no doubt fans are going to love what the Duffers deliver!
In Stranger Things 4, “It’s been six months since the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins. Struggling with the aftermath, our group of friends are separated for the first time — and navigating the complexities of high school hasn’t made things any easier. In this most vulnerable time, a new and horrifying supernatural threat surfaces, presenting a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down.”
The Duffer Bros. previously shared, “Season 4 is shaping up to be the biggest and most frightening season yet, and we cannot wait for everyone to see more.”
The series stars Millie Bobbie Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, and they will be joined by newcomers Robert Englund, Jamie Campbell Bower, Joseph Quinn, Tom Wlaschiha, Sherman Augustus, Mason Dye, and Nikola Djuricko.
Stranger Things 4 is being split into two parts. Season 4, Volume 1 arrives May 27th on Netflix, followed by Volume 2 on July 1st.
Source: Deadline
