It’s been hinted at for months, and now finally after multiple teasers for the upcoming fourth season of Stranger Things we know for certain when fans can look forward to seeing it. Unfortunately, they’ll have to wait until 2022, as revealed in a new teaser from the Netflix hit’s Twitter account.
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Stranger Things returns in 2022. pic.twitter.com/RHwQng4QZh— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) August 6, 2021
Expect to see the man crew return, including Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, and Maya Hawke, along with Brett Gelman, Jamie Campbell Bower, and Robert Englund.
From the beginning, creators the Duffer Brothers have suggested they already know how and when the series will end. They’ve speculated on a five-season run, and when asked by Collider if that’s still the case, producer (and Free Guy director) Shawn Levy didn’t exactly deny it.
“I have the end in sight. The brothers have the end in sight. “There is a plan and that too will be shared not quite as soon as a sense of when season four is coming out, but soon enough. I can say this. No, one’s making it up as we go along and there is an endgame, if you will.”
But would Netflix really let their biggest show just end like that? When asked about potential spinoffs, Levy again acknowledged the possibility…
“I’d say what’s been made clear is this is obviously a tent pole, arguably the tentpole franchise in the history of Netflix. Obviously certain other shows played key roles in their evolution, but Stranger Things with 196 million viewers over the time that we’ve been on the air, that’s a lot of households. And it’s unique in that Netflix service. What’s been made clear is there is an interest and a real voracious appetite for any offshoot, any other iteration format or extension of the franchise, the characters, the mythology. And certainly those conversations are hardly evolved, but they’re also not non-existent.”
In other words, get ready for that Joyce and Jim Hopper miniseries. Personally, I’d kill for a Lucas and Max spinoff.
