{"id":228752,"date":"2026-01-09T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:06:07","slug":"the-duffer-bros-tease-a-secret-stranger-things-project-and-say-the-universe-wont-expand-like-game-of-thrones-or-star-wars-geektyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/228752\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duffer Bros. Tease a Secret STRANGER THINGS Project and Say the Universe Won\u2019t Expand Like GAME OF THRONES or STAR WARS \u2014 GeekTyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geektyrant.com\/news\/review-stranger-things-season-5-is-a-messy-road-that-still-finds-its-way-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stranger Things <\/a>might have reached the end of its five-season run, but the world the show created is far from finished as the franchise is clearly still evolving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer are teasing that there\u2019s even more happening behind the scenes, including a secret project they aren\u2019t really allowed to talk about yet. This isn\u2019t the spinoff, that\u2019s already been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/did-eleven-die-stranger-things-creators-answer-burning-finale-questions-11878228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, Matt explained that the plan moving forward is intentionally measured. \u201cIt&#8217;s just one step at a time,\u201d he said when asked about what\u2019s next for Stranger Things. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cRight now, everything you said is all we have planned&#8230; Well, there&#8217;s one other thing I can&#8217;t talk about, so I just sort of lied to you, that is also really cool. But the live-action spinoff is what the main focus is right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That mystery project is being kept under tight wraps, but Matt did say: \u201cI wish I could talk about it more, but we have a specific idea or philosophy for how the show and the Stranger Things universe, if you wanna call it that, can continue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s very different, I would say, than something like Game of Thrones or Star Wars, because we&#8217;re just not like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ross expanded on that idea, explaining why they don\u2019t want to endlessly fill in tiny story gaps from the original series. \u201cAnd we&#8217;re very proud of Tales from &#8217;85 and the play, but those are mining the last remaining small gaps in the narrative that we told over the course of Stranger Things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cSo to be able to move forward, we have to build out a new mythology because otherwise we&#8217;re just gonna keep finding these little narrow gaps and it&#8217;s just gonna get narrower and narrower and more forced. So the goal is to break it wide open and do something very new and very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Matt described the process of expanding the franchise in a fresh direction as creatively rewarding, even if details have to stay secret for now. It\u2019s been \u201cexhilarating\u201d to create \u201cnew characters and a new mythology,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI can&#8217;t wait to say more about it when I&#8217;m allowed to, but Netflix PR is listening in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">While specifics are scarce, one intriguing clue has already surfaced. In a recent interview, the Duffers hinted that a small but strange detail from Stranger Things season 5 will play a major role in the upcoming series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">That detail is the rock Vecna found in a briefcase while exploring the caves as a child, a moment that fans might have overlooked at first, but clearly won\u2019t be insignificant moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things might have reached the end of its five-season run, but the world the show created is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-228752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}