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- 9. Chapter Nine: The Piggyback Jul 1, 2022
- With selfless hearts and a clash of metal, heroes fight from every corner of the battlefield.
- 8. Chapter Eight: Papa Jul 1, 2022
- Nancy has sobering visions, and El passes an important test; the gang gathers supplies.
- 7. Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab May 27, 2022
- As Hopper braces to battle a monster, Dustin decodes a message from beyond.
STRANGER THINGS is a science-fiction horror web television series created, written and directed by the Duffer Brothers, and executive-produced by Shawn Levy. The show was released as a Netflix original series premiering on July 15, 2016.
- Eleven
Jane Hopper (born Jane Ives), also known as Eleven or El, is...
- Max Mayfield
Maxine "Max" Mayfield,[3] portrayed by Sadie Sink, is a main...
- Will Byers
William "Will" Byers,[4][5] portrayed by Noah Schnapp, is a...
- Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler, portrayed by Natalia Dyer, is a main...
- Steve Harrington
Steve Harrington, portrayed by Joe Keery, is a main...
- Karen Wheeler
Karen Wheeler (née Childress),[1] portrayed by Cara Buono,...
- Dr. Martin Brenner
Dr. Martin Brenner, portrayed by Matthew Modine, was a main...
- Lucas Sinclair
Lucas Charles Sinclair, portrayed by Caleb McLaughlin, is a...
- Dustin Henderson
Dustin Henderson, portrayed by Gaten Matarazzo, is a main...
- Mike Wheeler
Michael "Mike" Wheeler, portrayed by Finn Wolfhard, is a...
- Eleven
Stranger Things is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016.
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is an American sci-fi television series created by the Duffer Brothers. It was first released as a Netflix original series on July 15, 2016.
The show takes place in the 1980s, with the central focus being the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The first season, set in November 1983, follows numerous groups of characters as they separately investigate the disappearance of Will Byers. The subsequent second and third seasons expand the narrative scope, exploring the complex fallout from the events of November 1983. The fourth season further expands the show's scope, with major storylines taking place outside of Hawkins for the first time. A fifth season is in the works and is set to conclude the series. Two spin-off series - a live-action series and an animated series - are apparently in development.
Main Cast
•Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers •David Harbour as Jim Hopper •Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven •Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler •Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson •Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair •Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler •Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers •Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler (seasons 1-3; also starring season 4) •Matthew Modine as Dr. Martin Brenner (seasons 1 and 4; recurring season 2) •Noah Schnapp as Will Byers (seasons 2-4; recurring season 1) •Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield (seasons 2-4) •Joe Keery as Steve Harrington (seasons 2-4; recurring season 1) •Dacre Montgomery as Billy Hargrove (seasons 2-3; guest season 4) •Sean Astin as Bob Newby (season 2; guest season 3) •Paul Reiser as Dr. Sam Owens (seasons 2 and 4; guest season 3) •Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley (seasons 3-4) •Priah Ferguson as Erica Sinclair (seasons 3-4; recurring season 2) •Brett Gelman as Murray Bauman (season 4; recurring season 2-3) •Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna/Henry Creel/001 (also starring season 4) •Eduardo Franco as Argyle (also starring season 4) •Joseph Quinn as Eddie Munson (also starring season 4)
Recurring Cast
•Joe Chrest as Ted Wheeler •Anniston and Tinsley Price as Holly Wheeler •Rob Morgan as Chief Calvin Powell (seasons 1-2 and 4; guest season 3) •John Paul Reynolds as Officer Phil Callahan (seasons 1-2 and 4; guest season 3) •Susan Shalhoub Larkin as Florence (seasons 1-2; guest season 3) •Randy Havens as Mr. Scott Clarke (seasons 1-2; guest season 3) •Aimee Mullins as Terry Ives (seasons 1-2; guest season 4) •Amy Seimetz as Becky Ives (seasons 1-2) •Chester Rushing as Tommy H (seasons 1-2) •Chelsea Talmadge as Carol Perkins (seasons 1-2) •Ross Partridge as Lonnie Byers (season 1) •Shannon Purser as Barbara Holland (season 1) •Mark Steger as The Demogorgon (season 1) •Catherine Dyer as Connie Frazier (season 1) •Peyton Wich as Troy Walsh (season 1) •Cade Jones as James Dante (season 1) •Chris Sullivan as Benny Hammond (season 1) •Linnea Berthelsen as Kali Prasad/008 (season 2) •Kai Greene as Funshine (season 2) •James Landry Hébert as Axel (season 2) •Anna Jacoby-Heron as Dottie (season 2) •Gabrielle Maiden as Mick (season 2) •Catherine Curtin as Claudia Henderson (seasons 2 and 4; guest season 3) •Cynthia Barrett as Marsha Holland (season 2; guest season 1) •Aaron Munoz as Mr. Holland (season 2) •Jennifer Marshall as Susan Hargrove (seasons 2 and 4) •Karen Ceesay as Sue Sinclair (seasons 2 and 4) •Arnell Powell as Charles Sinclair (seasons 2 and 4) •Matty Cardarople as Keith (season 2; guest season 3) •Cary Elwes as Mayor Larry Kline (season 3) •Jake Busey as Bruce Lowe (season 3) •Alec Utgoff as Alexei (season 3) •Andrey Ivchenko as Grigori (season 3) •Francesca Reale as Heather Holloway (season 3) •Michael Park as Tom Holloway (season 3) •Holly Morris as Janet Holloway (season 3) •Peggy Miley as Doris Driscoll (season 3) •Gabriella Pizzolo as Suzie Bingham (season 4; guest season 3) •Sherman Augustus as Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan (season 4) •Logan Riley Bruner as Fred Benson (season 4) •Logan Allen as Jake (season 4) •Livi Birch as Alice Creel (season 4) •Regina Ting Chen as Ms. Kelley (season 4) •Nikola Đjuričko as Yuri Ismaylov (season 4) •Mason Dye as Jason Carver (season 4) •Amybeth McNulty as Vickie (season 4) •Elodie Grace Orkin as Angela (season 4) •Tyner Rushing as Virginia Creel (season 4) •Myles Truitt as Patrick McKinney (season 4) •Grace Van Dien as Chrissy Cunningham (season 4) •Tom Wlaschiha as Dmitri "Enzo" Antonov (season 4) •Kevin L. Johnson as Young Victor Creel (season 4) •Clayton Royal Johnson as Andy (season 4) •Hunter Romanillos as Chance (season 4) •Joel Stoffer as Wayne Munson (season 4) •Paris Benjamin as Agent Ellen Stinson (season 4) •Ira Amyx as Agent Harmon (season 4) •Kendrick Cross as Agent Wallace (season 4) •Martie Blair as Young Eleven (season 4) •Tristan Spohn as Two (season 4) •Christian Ganiere as Ten (season 4) •Vaidotas Martinaitis as Warden Melnikov (season 4) •Nikolai Nikolaeff as Ivan (season 4) •Pasha D. Lychnikoff as Oleg (season 4) •Gwydion Lashlee-Walton as Gareth (season 4) •Trey Best as Jeff (season 4) •Grant Goodman as Freak 1 (season 4) •Jessica Arden Napier as Five (season 4) •De'Jon Watts as Six (season 4) •Morgan Gao as Three (season 4) •Sparrow Nicole as Four (season 4) •Candice Rose as Laura Cunningham (season 4) •Christopher Strand as Phillip Cunningham (season 4)
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Growing up as avid movie fans, the Duffer Brothers were excited how television was going in a more cinematic direction, and they loved the idea of doing a long-form movie. When they started thinking out their ideas in early 2014, they were initially inspired by the plot of the 2013 film Prisoners, which starred Hugh Jackman as a man searching for his missing daughters. Wanting the show to have something more, the Duffers began discussing "more childlike sensibilities", like having a monster devouring people. They became interested in a paranormal missing child storyline, which would be connected to versions of mysterious, real-life government experiments which took place at the tail end of the Cold War. They thought it made sense to set it at the end of the '70s or early '80s and realized it allowed them to pay homage to the films they grew up with. Growing up in the suburbs of North Carolina, watching films made them feel like their normal lives had the potential for adventure, which was a feeling they wanted to capture with Stranger Things. They aimed to return to a simpler style of storytelling and create something in the vein of the classic stories they loved growing up - such as films by Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter and Wes Craven, and the novels of Stephen King. They have stated many times that, "What made those stories so great and resonant was that they explored that magical point where the ordinary meets the extraordinary." Two weeks after having the idea, they threw it away, thinking no one would let them do a TV show. They were invited to write on Wayward Pines and, taking lessons from that experience, wrote a pilot script.
Development
The pilot script was brought to Dan Cohen, the vice president of production company 21 Laps Entertainment, in late 2014. He showed it to producer Shawn Levy, and within days they started talking about the project and how to bring it to the world. The Duffers created a mock-trailer, where they combined clips from more than twenty-five classic films, including Carpenter and Spielberg movies, and added a John Carpenter soundtrack over it. They also made a little notebook to help sell the show when pitching it with the cover aesthetically modeled after a Stephen King book. Being filmmakers, the Duffers were determined to approach the show as an eight-hour movie and not have it feel like typical television which influenced their every key decision in the development process. They did not want anyone else directing as they wanted the show to be unified in the same way a movie is. The Duffers make emotional decisions leading with their heart, so when choosing the crew, they wanted to go with people who understood their idea and the show. Netflix was their first choice when looking for a production company and broadcaster as their format would give them the freedom to tell the story like an eight-hour movie. With Cohen and Levy, the brothers pitched the show to Netflix in early March 2015. Netflix was very passionate about the show and bought the entire season within 24 hours of the first meeting. Matt Duffer later stated, "The dream scenario was always Netflix, so we’re very fortunate that we wound up there." Originally, the show was set in Montauk and correspondingly titled Montauk because the twins always loved the idea of the coastal-town Amity feel in Jaws. As it would be impossible to shoot in Long Island during wintertime, production was moved from Montauk to Atlanta. The twins ended up falling in love with the idea that it was more Anywhere, USA, and it reminded them of their childhoods and homes, a world they inherently understood better than the coastal town.
Costume design
It was important for the Duffer Brothers to create a world with characters that felt real while also maintaining that '80s aesthetic. With that in mind, Kimberly Adams and Malgosia Turzanska were selected as the costume designers for the first season. Adams had to put together mood boards with images from her research to distinguish each character's look, including the background characters and extras, who were dressed with the same care as the main characters. The pieces of the clothes were aged and designed according to how long the characters had owned them, while also reflecting the characters' difference in social status. For the second season, Kim Wilcox was brought as the new costume designer who created a bigger archive of clothing for both the kids and the adults. For the third and fourth seasons, Amy Parris was brought in as the new costume designer for the series. For the third season, she searched for colorful clothes to reflect the mid-80s style, and because of different locations in the fourth season, she used color palettes to keep track of them for the characters.
The fourth season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 4, was released worldwide on the streaming service Netflix in two volumes. The first set of seven episodes was released on May 27, 2022, while the second set of two episodes was released on July 1, 2022.
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The first season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things premiered worldwide on the streaming service Netflix on July 15, 2016. [1] The series was created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.
1. Play trailer 1:54. 24 10. 99+ Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama Fantasy Horror. When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. Creators. Matt Duffer. Ross Duffer. Stars. Millie Bobby Brown. Finn Wolfhard. Winona Ryder. See production info at IMDbPro.
