Stranger Things 4: Dates, Story, Characters … All About the Return of the Netflix Phenomenon Series

Upright return is inevitable. After three years of waiting – to say the least – the fourth season of Stranger Things is finally coming to Netflix. Not surprisingly, many want to find Eleven and her friends.

Four weeks before the big premiere, review all the information you need to know before embarking on an adventure. On the program: details about the story, the arrival of new characters and some inconsistencies.

This new conspiracy begins six months after the chaotic events at Starcourt Mall in the spring of 1986. Eleven left Hawkins and the undivided friends divorced for the first time. And their new high school life does not help. While they have to manage their past emotions and the first emotions of adolescence, a new supernatural threat emerges. With it, a terrible mystery arises and can become the key to ending upside down horrors.

There will be nine episodes in Season 4. In September 2020, when filming resumed after a pandemic shutdown, the title of the first episode was revealed on Twitter: “Chapter 1: Hellfire Club“. The rest were later revealed:

• The curse of Vekna
• Monster and superhero
• Dear Billy (with reference to Max’s dead brother, played by Seddie Sink)
• Tina Project
• For diving
• Massacre at Hawkins Laboratory
• Father
• Piggyback

The series will be presented in two volumes for the first time after the show. The first will be released on May 27 and the second on July 1. Netflix’s ability to prolong enjoyment and ensure real success over time.

The wait between seasons 3 and 4 was particularly long. Production due to the pandemic ceased in March 2020, a month after the first filming. Filming resumed in September 2020 and lasted until September 2021. This long period reflects the ambition of this 4th season, which was most impressively described by its creators.

In early April, The Wall Street Journal Announced that the cost of one episode was $ 30 million. Record for the series. The total budget is $ 280 million. This is the price of a big movie blockbuster. For comparison, the 4th season of Stranger Things exceeded the budget of James Cameron Avatar – 235 million dollars.

The entire cast of young actors has, of course, returned to their respective roles, from Millie Bobby Brown to Finn Wolfhardt, including Maya Hawke, who joined the previous season. Winona Ryder is also there again, as is David Harbor. His character has a tragic ending at the end of Season 3, but one of the last series shows the sheriff in a deep prison in Russia.

Nevertheless, several new talents have joined the cast: Regina Ting Chen (Queen of the South), Jamie Campbell Bauer (saga Twilight), Mason Paint (Adolescent wolf), Or even Tom Vlashiha (Game of Thrones).

One of the main additions concerns Robert Englund. The actor, played by the legendary Freddie Krueger, portrays a new central character this season 4: Victor Creeley, the father who killed the entire family in the fifties. He is now locked up in a psychiatric hospital. According to some rumors, his conspiracy will be closely related to the conspiracy of eleven.

The Stranger Things bestiary is growing. Some theories indicate that the 4 big bads of this season are nothing more than Vecna, the protagonist from the heroes ’favorite game, Dungeons & Dragons. He is also considered to be one of the most powerful antagonists of this world created in the seventies. The creature – horrible, to put it mildly – appears in a new trailer released by Netflix. It occupies a demogorgon or even a mental flyer.

Season 5, which has already been confirmed by Netflix, will be the last and should complete the narrative archive of Eleven and his band. However, the Daphne brothers, the creators of the series, are not going to stop there. Their wish? Run the spin-off. In the columns of the magazine SFX, They clearly state that they want to take precautions and choose the right story before embarking on an epic new adventure. future will show.

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