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Everything We Know About ‘Stranger Things' Season 5 So Far
Updated with the latest: Stranger Things Season 5 has its release date — or 3, rather. The final installment of the Netflix tentpole series will arrive in three parts at the end of this year. Season 5 officially wrapped production December 2024 after it had reached the halfway point in July. Production on the final season kicked off in January 2024. More from Deadline Maya Hawke Gives 'Stranger Things' Season 5 Filming Update: 'We're Making, Basically, Eight Movies' 'Stranger Things' Season 5 Episodes Will Be Shorter Than Season Four, Duffer Brothers Say Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far The fifth and final season of the show has been in the works ever since Part 2 of Season 4 arrived in July 2022, with the writers room for the next season opening August that year. A pandemic delaying Season 4's arrival and then dual Hollywood strikes pushed Season 5 further than originally planned. Find everything we know about Stranger Things Season 5 below. When will Season 5 come out? Netflix announced at its big TUDUM event May 31 that the first of three parts of the final season will arrive Nov. 26, 2025 on the streamer. Part 2 will come out on Christmas, and the epic conclusion of Part 3 will arrive New Year's Eve. RELATED: Many of the stars like Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard and more have reacted to the momentous occasion on social media, posting thoughtful reflections about the decade spent making this show and more. How many episodes are in Season 5? Season 5 will have eight episodes. Netflix released the episode titles on Nov. 6, 2024, or Stranger Things Day, which is the date of Will Byers' original disappearance that started the whole story in Season 1. From the looks of episode 2's title, someone or something else goes missing this season as well. Episode 1's title had been previously released. RELATED: Season 5 Episode Titles 'The Crawl' 'The Vanishing Of' 'The Turnbow Trap' 'Sorcerer' 'Shock Jock' 'Escape From Camazotz 'The Bridge' 'The Rightside Up' 'In the fall of 1987, one last adventure begins,' a teaser clip revealed with the episode titles in order. This confirms a time jump in Season 5 which will pick up more than a year after the events of season 4, which began in March 1986. The Season 4 finale ended with Vecna opening a massive gate to the Upside Down, leading to terrible destruction in Hawkins as the three groups of the original cast members reunited there. RELATED: A few other insights into the newly released episode titles, paired with some photos posted on the Stranger Things Instagram accounts as well as that of Ross Duffer, suggest more Dungeons and Dragons lore with the 'Sorcerer' title of Episode 4, a radio station hangout — 50,000 WSQK Watts — that potentially ties into 'Shock Jock' Episode 5 (which rhymes with The Squawk pictured on a van for the outlet) and the mysterious yet oddly specific term Camazotz, which could either represent the planet from Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, a Mayan bat god from the Underworld or something else entirely. Season 4 introduced some terrifying demi-bat creatures that caused both Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) and Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) damage. Episode 3 likely refers to the Turnbow Land Development & Realty company portrayed in an Instagram post from Ross Duffer. Will there be new characters in Season 5? Season 5 will see new cast members Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux joining the cast of Stranger Things. Fisher will play a more grown-up Holly Wheeler. Linda Hamilton also announced at 2023's Tudum: A Global Fan Event that she would be joining the final season as well, but details of her role are being kept under wraps. They join core cast members Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazo, Caleb McLaughlin, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery and Charlie Heaton. RELATED: Later additions Sadie Sink, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower and Amybeth McNulty as well as several others will close out the final installment as well, with Bower embodying the big bad Vecna, who was introduced in Season 4. 'If season 4 was big, season 5 definitely feels bigger,' Bower said in a behind-the-scenes video released at the halfway point of production of Season 5. Did Sadie Sink's Character Max die in Season 4 of ? Max Mayfield's fate is uncertain, but Sink has revealed that she will be running in some way in Season 5 as of a recent Variety cover story. Sink spoke with Deadline about her character's heartwrenching finale ending in Season 4. RELATED: Did Joseph Quinn's character Eddie Munson die? Eddie Munson, a breakout star character of Season 4, is more certainly dead, though Quinn did give pause in a red carpet interview for A Quiet Place: Day One when the reporter suggested he might still be back in Season 5 somehow. Who else is behind Season 5? The Shawshank Redemption (1994) director and Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont came out of retirement to direct on the installment. Of course, the Duffer brothers helm the series, and Shawn Levy produces and directs on the show. RELATED: Will there be more Seasons of ? No, Season 5 is the last one, but the universe will live on through the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which delves deeper into the lives of teenage Joyce, Hopper, Karen Wheeler and Lonnie Byers when Henry Creel (aka Vecna) first came to town. Deadline exclusively reported that this first play will be one of three. RELATED: 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' Coming To Broadway In March; See Trailer Released Today There will also be an animated spinoff series, which remains untitled for now. What else are the Duffer Brothers working on? The pair behind Stranger Things are collaborating with Netflix on another show called The Boroughs, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), which will star Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Clarke Peters and Denis O'Hare. Addiss and Matthews will serve as showrunners. Another series in the works at Netflix from the Duffers is Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, which may star Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco. RELATED: Everything We Know About 'The Boroughs' So Far The creators will also tackle an adaptation of Stephen King's Talisman into a Netflix series, and they are behind Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Everything We Know About 'Happy Gilmore 2' So Far
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Netflix Debuts First ‘Stranger Things 5' Footage: ‘It's Like 8 Blockbuster Movies'
'Stranger Things' is nearing its end. With the fifth and final season set to be released sometime later this year, creators Matt and Ross Duffer (collectively known as the Duffer Brothers) are closing the book on the Hawkins, Indiana gang and their superpowered bestie. And at a Next on Netflix event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, they showed off the very first footage from the series. The footage, described by Ross as 'the world's very first behind-the-scenes look' at 'Stranger Things' Season 5, showcased our main characters (Mike, Hopper, Dustin, Lucas, Eleven and more) going up against the villainous Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). Since this was behind-the-scenes footage, you also saw some guys in grey leotards that will probably be replaced by Demogorgons or some other creepy crawlies from the Upside Down. (The season is set in 1987.) There was a heavy emphasis on Hawkins' radio station WSQK, with its lightning bolt logo (we can already see the merchandise), and there have been previous behind-the-scenes photos of the radio station in the Upside Down, with vines crawling all over it. Also, one of the episodes was revealed to be called 'Shock Jock.' So yes: important location. Also of note were some fleeting shots of Linda Hamilton, new to the 'Stranger Things' world, as an undisclosed character (she looked military from the footage). Plus Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) in what looked like 1980s workout gear and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) has a new hat. Much of the footage featured cast and crew against blue screen backdrops, which did much to obscure what the scenes were actually meant to be. And it does sound like this will be even more complicated than 'Stranger Things 4,' which had feature-length episodes and giant set pieces (remember Hopper fighting monsters in the Russian prison?) That fourth season also ended with a corker of a cliffhanger; much of the town had been destroyed by an 'earthquake' and fan favorite character Max (Sadie Sink) remained in a coma. 'We spent a full year filming this season. By the end, we'd captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet,' said Ross Duffer on the stage at the Egyptian Theater. 'It's like eight blockbuster movies. It's pretty insane.' It was an emotional journey for everybody. 'We've been making this show together for almost 1- years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying,' Matt Duffer said. 'The show means so much to all of us, and everyone put their hearts and souls into it. And we hope — and believe — that passion will translate to the screen.' While a timeline for when the season will come out has yet to be shared, the Duffer Brothers did promise that they were not done with the Upside Down. 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' a terrific theatrical production that debuted in the West End, will soon make its way to Broadway. 'There are many more stories to tell,' admitted Matt Duffer. This includes a pair of animated series, neither of which were detailed at the event. In 2026, the Duffer Brothers are bringing two new shows to Netflix, as well – 'The Boroughs,' which Matt said 'probably shares the most DNA with 'Stranger Things' because it's about a group of misfits who fight an otherworldly evil,' only this time it's set in a retirement community (it stars Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard and Bill Pullman); and 'Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen,' which 'follows a bride and groom in a chaotic, anxiety-filled week leading up to their wedding' (according to Ross). The Duffers are producing both series through their Upside Down Pictures. The post Netflix Debuts First 'Stranger Things 5' Footage: 'It's Like 8 Blockbuster Movies' appeared first on TheWrap.
