Stranger Things Season 5: Duffer Brothers Have Outlined All the Scripts

With Stranger Things Season 4 starting to stream on Netflix May 27, I recently got to speak to the creators of the series, Matt and Ross Duffer (the Duffer Brothers). During the brief but informative interview, they talked about how Season 4 became nine episodes instead of eight, how every episode is long but episodes seven and nine are like feature length movies, why they’re happy Netflix made them write a 25-page bible about the Upside Down after Season 1, how Stranger Things Season 4 is going to be the most revelatory season, and how the season hints at some big events that are going to happen in Season 5.

In addition, unlike the previous seasons where the Duffer Brothers were trying to finish the scripts while they were shooting episodes, because of the pandemic, they had a six-month hiatus where they used the time to write every episode in Season 4, and they also outlined all of Season 5. Matt Duffer explains:

“For the first time ever to write all nine. We had all the scripts before we started shooting, so we could look at the whole thing as a whole. And we outlined all of five. So it really is four and five or like of a piece, and this was due to the six-month hiatus that we had due to the pandemic. So we don't typically have as much time. It usually feels like the train is going down the tracks and Ross and I and our writers are just throwing down track as we're going, once we're halfway through the season. And for the first time ever, we were able to look at it globally, not just Season Four, but Season Five as well.”

I believe one of the reasons Season 4 is so good is due to the extra time spent on the scripts. Check out what the Duffer Brothers had to say in the player above, or you can read our conversation below.

Stranger Things Season 4 picks up six months after the events of the finale at the Starcourt Mall, and our main cast has been separated. We don’t know the fate of chief of police Jim Hopper (David Harbour), the Byers family (including Noah Schnapp's Will, Winona Ryder's Joyce, and Charlie Heaton's Jonathan) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) moved away from Hawkins, while Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Max (Sadie Sink), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery), and Robin (Maya Hawke) try to carry on with their lives. It’s a time of peace. For now…

Additional cast members in Season 4 are Jamie Campbell Bower (Peter Ballard), Eduardo Franco (Argyle), Sherman Augustus (Lt. Colonel Sullivan), Mason Dye (Jason Carver), Nikola Djuricko (Yuri), Tom Wlaschiha (Dmitri), Myles Truitt (Patrick), Regina Ting Chen (Ms. Kelly), Grace Van Dien (Chrissy), Logan Riley Bruner (Fred Benson), Logan Allen (Jake), Elodie Grace Orkin (Angela), John Reynolds (Officer Callahan), Rob Morgan (Chief Powell), Amybeth McNulty (Vickie) and Robert Englund (Victor Creel).

Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 1 arrives May 27 and Volume 2 on July 1. Stranger Things is produced by Monkey Massacre Productions & 21 Laps Entertainment with The Duffer Brothers serving as executive producers, alongside Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps Entertainment, Iain Paterson, and Curtis Gwinn.

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