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“Stranger Things 5”: Why the Final Season Likely Won’t Run as Long as Season 4
This article contains some spoilers for Season 4.
With “Stranger Things 4” now wrapped up, we can begin looking forward to “Stranger Things 5,” which will indeed be the FINAL season of Netflix‘s hit series. The Season 4 finale set the stage for a season that will bring the action entirely back to Hawkins, with the rift between Hawkins and the Upside Down now completely opened up by the monster behind it all, Vecna.
“Stranger Things 4” was massive in both scope and length, the final two episodes alone running nearly 4 hours long. Will “Stranger Things 5” follow suit in the length department?
Don’t expect it to, the Duffer Brothers tell Variety this week.
“The only reason we don’t expect it to be as long is because if you look at [Season 4], it’s almost a two-hour ramp-up before our kids really get drawn into the supernatural mystery,” Matt Duffer explains. “You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, what they’re struggling with, adapting to high school, and so forth. Steve’s trying to find a date, all of that. None of that obviously is going to be occurring in the first two episodes of [Season 5].”
“For the first time ever, we don’t wrap things up at the end of [Season] 4, so it’s going to be moving,” he continues. “I don’t know that it’s going to be going 100 miles an hour at the start of 5, but it’s going to be moving pretty fast. Characters are already going to be in action.
“They’re already going to have a goal and a drive, and I think that’s going to carve out at least a couple hours and make this [final] season feel really different.”
When can you expect Season 5 to premiere? Likely not until at least 2024.
The Ghostbusters franchise returns to the world of animation with brand new Netflix series “Ghostbusters: Night Shift,” and the official logo has been revealed this weekend.
Expect “Ghostbusters: Night Shift” to clock in on Netflix in 2027!
Netflix previews, “Ghostbusters: Night Shift, a series from Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation based on the beloved Ghostbusters franchise, will debut exclusively on Netflix in 2027.
“The new series marks the next chapter in the franchise’s ghoul-catching legacy, bringing supernatural comedy and paranormal action back to animation.”
The upcoming animated series from Netflix will be executive produced by Ben Hibon, Elliott Kalan, Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan, Amie Karp, and Dan Aykroyd.
Reitman, son of Ivan Reitman, director of the original Ghostbusters features, and Kenan co-wrote the franchise’s most recent installments, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
“This isn’t the first time the Ghostbusters universe has gone animated,” Netflix reminds in their press release today. “The 1980s and ’90s saw The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters take over the small screen. For now, you can rest assured: If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, a Ghostbuster will be on the job — even if it’s after hours.”
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