{"id":85943,"date":"2025-10-18T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85943\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:46:08","slug":"the-stranger-things-spinoff-wont-just-be-more-stranger-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85943\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Stranger Things’ Spinoff Won’t Just Be More ‘Stranger Things’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stranger Things season five is still over a month away and while fans are very curious to see how the storyline in Hawkins wraps up<\/a>, there might be even more curiosity about the spin-off<\/a> that creators Matt and Ross Duffer have been dropping hints about for a while.<\/p>\n

The brothers may have recently moved their operations from Netflix to Paramount<\/a>, but the spinoff, which they will create and have a hand in but won\u2019t showrun, will remain at the streamer. And that\u2019s\u2026 just about all we know about it, though we now have a better idea of what not to expect.<\/p>\n

Season five, the Duffers emphasized to Variety<\/a>, will wrap up the tale of Eleven and company with finality. The spin-off, therefore, won\u2019t continue with any of the characters we\u2019ve met in Stranger Things, nor will it follow any threads that were introduced in the world of that show. It won\u2019t be, they insist, like another franchise that\u2019s found great success with interconnected stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so different than something like Star Wars,\u201d Matt Duffer told the trade. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really work like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is a spinoff if not that, you ask?<\/p>\n

The Duffers see it as more of a brand expansion that leans into their \u201cstyle of storytelling,\u201d broadly including \u201ckids, adventures, sci-fi\/fantasy, rather than increasingly [expanding] what could become an increasingly convoluted mytholody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which means, according to Ross Duffer, \u201cThey\u2019re going to live in a bit of a different world. There\u2019s going to be connective tissue, but you\u2019re almost anthologizing in a way. Because we\u2019re not Star Wars. We can\u2019t be like, \u2018Oh, now we\u2019re on this planet.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

This approach is more creatively freeing for the duo. \u201cYou\u2019re starting with new characters\u2014it\u2019s like clean slate. You\u2019re not tied up into any knots. There\u2019s something refreshing about it \u2026 the hope is you\u2019re not just doing something to just do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While we wait to see what that same-but-also-different project looks like, Stranger Things season five is nearly upon us. The first batch of episodes arrives November 26 on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things season five is still over a month away and while fans are very curious to see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,1094,111,139,69,3197,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-85943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-netflix","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-stranger-things","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}