On March 16, 2020, two weeks after the first round of applause, Stranger Things season 4 stopped filming. A national emergency declared a few days earlier due to the pandemic forces Netflix to halt all of its production. The team of the series will find its way to the shooting only after six months, in October 2020.
It is inevitable that such an unforeseen event imposes significant budgetary costs. Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer, explains that Stranger Things has been affected more than any program on the platform.
The streaming giant reveals that pandemic-related costs represent 5 to 10% of total costs. In 2022, Netflix will spend almost $17 billion. The executive director claims that without the pandemic, the success of the Duffer Brothers would have had several more episodes.
According to your information, each episode of the series cost almost 30 million dollars. The budget for the entire season is $270 million – that’s more than James Cameron’s Avatar.
The global health crisis has also affected the mode of transmission. Due to significant delays caused by the filming shutdown, post-production took longer than expected and not all episodes were ready on time. For this reason, Series 4 was split into two separate volumes on 27 May and 1 July.
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