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‘Stranger Things 5’ Images Preview an Intense Final Battle with the Upside Down
Hawkins is preparing for its final battle with the Upside Down with “Stranger Things 5,” and Netflix has released a fresh batch of images teasing just how intense things will get.
The first four episodes will premiere on November 26, the next three episodes on December 25, and the series finale on December 31. Each volume releases globally at 5pm PT/8pm ET.
The images below highlight most of the main cast, all looking terrified or battle ready. The exception, of course, being Sadie Sink’s Max, whose temporary death last season opened the final rift that wreaked havoc on Hawkins.
In the final season, “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”
Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, and Amybeth McNulty star.
Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Nell Fisher (Evil Dead Rise), Alex Breaux (“American Primeval”), and Jake Connelly join the ensemble in Season 5.
Series creators The Duffer Brothers promised an epic final season ahead.
“We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we had captured over 650 hours of footage,” Ross Duffer said previously. “So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty, pretty insane.”
“Season 5 will be big and epic,“ Matt Duffer added, echoing Ross’s promise for the final season. “There’s no time for a ramp-up. It’s going to be intense from beginning to end.”
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and David Harbour as Jim Hopper in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler and Jake Connelly as Derek in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Nell Fisher as Holly Wheeler and Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. Noah Schnapp as Will Byers in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Joe Keery as Steve Harrington and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
STRANGER THINGS. (L to R) Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield and Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair in STRANGER THINGS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Himesh Patel (Tenet, Don’t Look Up) will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler (The Woman in the Yard) in Ryan Coogler’s reboot of “The X-Files“, which has wrapped filming on the pilot.
Patel confirmed the news in a chat with The Direct, while reiterating that he and Deadwyler play new characters.
“I don’t want to say anything that’s going to get me disappeared. Needless to say, myself and Danielle Deadwyler are playing completely new characters, and we just wrapped on the pilot. If we get to do more… we’ll see where we go from there,” Patel said.
That last sentence is noteworthy, as Patel is reminding that Hulu has only ordered the pilot so far. A full series order has yet to be greenlit.
It’s a good reminder, considering that Hulu also ordered a pilot for the “Buffy: New Sunnydale” reboot that was filmed and delivered earlier this year, only for the streamer to send shockwaves when it opted not to move forward with the series.
As for “The X-Files” pilot, Sinners filmmaker Ryan Coogler writes and directs the pilot. Jennifer Yale (“The Copenhagen Test”) serves as showrunner.
Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler play two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents who form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.
Patel and Deadwyler previously co-starred together on “Station Eleven.”
Other actors who have signed on for guest roles include Amy Madigan, Steve Buscemi, Ben Foster, Devery Jacobs, Lochlyn Munro, Tantoo Cardinal, Joel D. Montgrand, and Sofia Grace Clifton.
“The X-Files” originally ran for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, with two additional seasons arriving in 2016 and 2018. 218 episodes were produced in total, along with two feature films: 1998’s The X-Files: Fight the Future and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Himesh Patel in “Station Eleven”
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