Sure, Stranger Things has wrapped up its run on Netflix, but if you thought the streamer was letting go of its most popular show, you couldn’t be more wrong. While the Duffer Brothers have a spinoff on the way featuring a different bunch of Hawkins residents, there’s also the new animated series, Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, arriving next month.
Set in the winter of 1985, between seasons 2 and 3, the series finds Eleven, Mike, and the rest of the Hawkins gang taking on a new threat from parts unknown.
SYNOPSIS: Return to Hawkins with Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, an exciting new animated series from showrunner Eric Robles and executive producers the Duffer Brothers. In the winter of 1985, snow blankets the town and the horrors of the Upside Down are finally fading. Our heroes Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max have settled back into a normal life of D&D, snowball fights, and quiet days. But beneath the ice, something terrifying has awakened. Could it be from the Upside Down? From the depths of Hawkins Lab? Or from somewhere else entirely? Our heroes must race to solve this mystery and save Hawkins in this new story set in the Stranger Things universe.
At this point, nobody from the original cast is returning to lend their voices. Instead, the cast consists of Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Jolie Hoang Rappaport, Luca Diaz, Elisha “EJ” Williams, Braxton Quinney, Ben Plessala, Brett Gipson, Odessa A’zion, Jeremy Jordan, Janeane Garofalo, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Englund, Alysia Reiner, Allexandra Antonelli, Valeria Rodriguez, and Jack Griffo. Some pretty big names.
Eric Robles is showrunner and exec-producer, joined by exec-producers the Duffer Brothers and Shawn Levy.
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 hits Netflix on April 23rd.
