{"id":321779,"date":"2025-11-30T05:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321779\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T05:12:05","slug":"stranger-things-isnt-ending-at-season-5-the-upside-down-is-set-to-return-in-a-way-you-cannot-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/321779\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things isn\u2019t ending at season 5, the Upside Down is set to return in a way you cannot imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the success of the final season, which returned to Netflix<\/a> in late 2025 and concluded on New Year\u2019s Eve, the Stranger Things<\/a> universe is expanding again. Netflix unveiled first-look images, a teaser and the full voice cast for Stranger Things: Tales From \u201985<\/a>, an animated series<\/a> set in the winter of 1985 that will stream on Netflix in 2026. <\/p>\n

The new series takes place between Seasons 2 and 3, returning to Hawkins<\/a> as the core group, now in animated form, face new monsters<\/a> and a fresh paranormal mystery<\/a>. Netflix released a short first-look featurette and images alongside the casting announcement. <\/p>\n

Casting of Stranger Things: Tales From \u201985
Netflix named the primary voice actors as: <\/p>\n

Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven <\/p>\n

\"ETLive EventsJolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max
Luca Diaz as Mike
Elisha \u201cEJ\u201d Williams as Lucas
Braxton Quinney as Dustin <\/p>\n

Ben Plessala as Will <\/p>\n

Brett Gipson as Hopper <\/p>\n

Additional voice talent announced includes Odessa A\u2019zion, Janeane Garofalo and Lou Diamond Phillips<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eric Robles serves as showrunner and executive producer. The Duffer Brothers<\/a>, Matt and Ross, are executive producers via Upside Down Pictures<\/a>, joined by Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps. Animation work is being developed with Flying Bark Productions<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the Netflix featurette, the Duffer brothers explained that an animated series was an early idea when thinking about expanding the franchise: \u201cWhen we started talking about, was there anything else we wanted to do with \u2018Stranger Things,\u2019 this was one of our first ideas,\u201d Matt Duffer said. Ross Duffer added, \u201cWith animation there\u2019s really no limits. Eric and his team can just go wild, and they have.\u201d <\/p>\n

With Stranger Things: Tales From \u201985, Netflix is keeping the Hawkins<\/a> universe alive even after the franchise\u2019s live-action finale. By leaning into animation\u2019s limitless possibilities and an 80s-cartoon nostalgia, the series opens a new chapter for fans eager to revisit the supernatural world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the success of the final season, which returned to Netflix in late 2025 and concluded on New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[164561,64321,88,164564,164560,217,164562,164563,11959,13671,146770,92,164565],"class_list":["post-321779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-animated-series","tag-duffer-brothers","tag-entertainment","tag-flying-bark-productions","tag-hawkins","tag-netflix","tag-new-monsters","tag-paranormal-mystery","tag-phillips","tag-stranger-things","tag-stranger-things-tales-from-85","tag-tv","tag-upside-down-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}