Netflix announces a spin-off series of its hit Stranger Things
Eva Deschamps / July 7, 2022
Fans of the upside down world rejoice: a spin-off series of Netflix's smash hit Stranger Things is in development by its creators, the Duffer brothers, the platform announced Wednesday.
The saga, one of the most watched on Netflix, mixes science fiction, horror and teenage adventures in a small American town in the 1980s, where a group of young people find themselves at odds with monsters from a parallel dimension.
Its recently aired fourth season tops the platform's ratings for English-language works, which tracks the number of hours watched within 28 days of a series' release.
Season 4 of Stranger Things has already reached 1.15 billion hours, a figure that is expected to increase further since the last episode was only uploaded last week.
In the world, only the South Korean series Squid Game has managed to do better.
Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, creators and directors of the series, had indicated that the plot of Stranger Things would be finally wrapped up in a fifth season. But they also piqued fans' curiosity by writing in an open letter that there are many more exciting stories to be told in the world of +Stranger Things.
On Wednesday, Netflix confirmed that a +Stranger Things+ spin-off series based on an original idea by the Duffer brothers was in development.
The dark and strange universe will also be the subject of a theatrical adaptation, with Stephen Daldry ("The Crown") directing.
The company founded for the occasion by the Duffer brothers, Upside Down Pictures, also has in its cartons a project for a live-action adaptation of the famous Japanese manga Death Note, and another of the novel The Talisman, co-written in the 1980s by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
The announcement of the deal between Netflix and the Duffer brothers comes as the platform is under pressure from financial markets after losing subscribers for the first time this year after a long period of uninterrupted growth.
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