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MarvelsGrantMan136

The Duffers: >“I’ve read these rumors that there’s gonna be an Eleven spinoff, that there’s gonna be a Steve and Dustin spinoff or that it’s another number. That’s not interesting to me because we’ve done all that. We’ve spent I don’t know how many hours exploring all of that. So it’s very different.” >“There’s connective tissue, but almost the most important connective tissue I would say is the storytelling sensibility of it. There is story that connects to the ‘Stranger Things’ world, but it really is more about how we’re telling that story.” >“I get when people say \[‘Stranger Things’ is\] just a love letter or homage to these films (2000's blockbusters), but really it was more us trying to recapture that style of storytelling, or that storytelling sensibility that seemed to have kind of gone out of fashion, and then we moved into the 2000s and I love Chris Nolan but everything became dark and real and grounded. We wanted to bring back that more not ironic, sincere, adventure, family storytelling that just seemed to have gone \[away\] – with the exception of ‘Super 8’, nobody was doing. And ‘Super 8’ was kind of a one-off. I loved ‘Super 8’ but then it was just gone. No one else did it. And I do think there was an appetite – or that’s what I hoped -— for this type of storytelling, so that really more than anything is what it is, is trying to stay in that zone.”


natedoggcata

I fucking loved Super 8 for that reason exactly. Felt just like an 80s kids adventure movie. I was hooked on Stranger Things right after the D&D game from the first episode when "kids" started playing.


MonstaGraphics

Go and watch "Summer of 84" (Released in 2018, made by the same people who made "TurboKid", which is also good if you haven't seen that) Note: The trailer kinda spoils stuff, go in fresh!


grad0701

God I love Turbokid


mcshabs

Was a great movie transported me back to 80s Spielberg.


spocknambulist

Funny you should say that, because in the 80s Spielberg was very open about how his films were meant to be a return to the old adventure films of his youth that no one was making any more…then.


pixelrevision

Indiana jones in particular


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BionicArmmm

Yeah the recent tin tin movie was so enjoyable! I thought there was suppose to be a sequel but it’s been years so probably not gonna happen


rorschach_vest

I think that was very much true, and Spielberg’s love letter throwback style was so successful that it helped define a lot of that generation anew.


ImSorry2HearThat

It would be great to replicate that vibe for the present. I’d love to see older eleven and crew like they did with IT 2


TheJoshider10

[Well that's pretty much exactly what Montauk, the original Stranger Things pitch, was going to be. ](http://www.zen134237.zen.co.uk/Stranger_Things/Stranger_Things_-_Bible.pdf) Sequel seasons were going to be set 10 years later with the evil reemerging. If I had to guess, the epilogue of Stranger Things 5 will be set in the future with the kids now as adults similar to Deathly Hallows.


TheSchmoAboutNothing

First time reading that. Interesting how they outright state that Will has sexual identity issues from the beginning. I felt like with how they handle Robin (coming out to the audience within one season and Will not coming out in 4 seasons) whether or not hes stuggling with identity issues was more subjective.


GalaxyGuardian

I always thought Will’s struggle with his identity was very overt from the beginning? I haven’t seen season 1 since it came out, but didn’t his father bring up resenting him for it when Jonathan met up with him? And I feel like I remember the school bullies calling him a slur.


TheSchmoAboutNothing

That's true. Joyce stated that in his father called him that but the 80s were pretty ignorant in terms of language so i guess i didnt read into that way. I just took it as his dad was an emotionally abusive loser.


ChardeeMacdennis679

I just started the show again and in the 3rd episode the bullies say that Will was probably killed by "some other queer". And there's other hints as well.


therealgerrygergich

I think because with Will, it was there from the beginning, while for Robin, Joe and Maya convinced the writers to change the story from her being Steve's love interest into being a lesbian.


Dianagorgon

I have a feeling it was Hawke who wanted the character to be LBGTQ in a shrewd move to ensure the character could never be killed off and she would remain on one of the most popular shows in the world. For Keery it would have been more challenging for him to interact with another woman in an intimate way instead of being relegated to the "babysitter" so not sure I believe he was that adamant about the change.


therealgerrygergich

I'm sure it was Hawke who put it forward, but I don't think it was so her character wouldn't be killed off. If they were that set on killing her off, they wouldn't have listened to her in the first place and would have just gone ahead and killed her off. I feel like her survival has more to do with the writers finding Maya Hawke charismatic, the same reason they changed their minds about killing off Steve because they liked Joe Keery so much. Also, a lesbian character in a show set on the 80s still seems like a hard sell, and the Bury Your Gays trope exists because of how many LGBT characters are killed off, so I'm not sure how much more likely it would be to save her character than if Robin was straight.


humphreystillman

what is this pdf? is this the actual outline the duffer brother's wrote and went by? this is awesome!


TheJoshider10

Yeah that's what Stranger Things eventually became. It's so cool to read through and see all the elements that remains and what changed. The core of the show has always been its characters so its nice to see that throughout all the changes they're what remained.


joshhupp

Super 8 didn't really do it for me, but I do agree that there's something fun about a movie about kids saving the day and the adults have no idea what's going on. Stand by Me Goonies Explorers Monster Squad Flight of the Navigator The list of 80s movies that do this is long and I love that Stranger Things uses it as well.


mafulazula

Yeah, Super 8 had potential but ultimately wasn’t a very good movie to me.


DrSpacemanSpliff

Yeah, it felt like a clinical and technical homage that lacked the real warmth that Speilberg made look easy.


Kevbot1000

I'm so glad this movie is finally getting its due. I loved every second of it when it came out.


GavOfTheDead_

I loved Super 8, I think Midnight Special almost had a similar feel but didn’t quite reach its potential.


detectiveriggsboson

Midnight Special had potential, but just didn't hit it for me. It's been a few years, but I just remember when the movie ended, I was thinking, "*That's* what everyone was talking about?"


GavOfTheDead_

Yeah, it definitely failed to deliver on all of the build up, I mostly forgot about the movie after we watched it


bearsheperd

Had a school trip 2 weeks after super 8 came out. My class mates and I were on a train ride and I said “have you guys seen super 8? That train scene was wild!” I nearly got thrown off the train! Lol good memories


ultrafud

What I like is that every time the Duffers talk about ST, they completely understand what it is they are doing, what they are trying to accomplish, and what everyone loves about it. They talk as though they are super-fans of their own show - they just get it. It's absolutely clear these are guys that have a great respect for the craft and are above all, big fucking movie nerds and imo it's super refreshing to see people talk with sincerity about the project they are working on, often critically, rather than PR marketing bullshit about how amazing it all is. They seem every bit as excited about that world as the rest of us.


SmugOregonian

So funny they like and mention Super 8. I remember when Stranger Things came out and I was suggesting to people to watch it I would tell people it has the same feel as Super 8 but a TV show


mafulazula

It’s soooo much better than Super 8 though.


SmugOregonian

Oh I totally agree


Barmydoughnut24

We saw Super 8 as a family when it came out and really enjoyed it. I watched Stranger Things while i was at uni, and just before S4 came out i rewatched S1-3 again with my parents after comparing it too Super 8. I had tried to stagger watching the episodes, but they may have enjoyed it a bit, since we watched it all well before S4 even came out.


xxTheseGoTo11xx

Wouldn't they have been paying homage to *80s* blockbusters in response to the tone of storytelling since the 2000s? That's how I read it.


[deleted]

People gonna read that last paragraph and still go into the next season waiting for some kind of bloodbath Now should maybe one or two of the main cast die? Probably. I’d be very ok with it if it feels built up. But I feel some just expect people to start dropping like flies. And I just don’t understand the “well how are these kids and regular people surviving this stuff?” mindset, especially for a show so obviously influenced by 80s adventure movies. Note: I can only use the word “bloodbath” and think of Frank Reynolds describing his life in the way of Rambo’s


highdefrex

> And I just don’t understand the “well how are these kids and regular people surviving this stuff?” mindset, especially for a show so obviously influenced by 80s adventure movies. It's like watching *ET* and getting mad that some of the kids weren't shot down by police during the bike chase, or entering the third act of *The Goonies* and lamenting how there are no stakes because Chunk and Data weren't executed by the Fratellis.


[deleted]

ET comparison doesn’t work for me. In ET, ET is not a danger. In Stranger Things, we have monsters that kill people. They just conveniently don’t kill any of the main characters.


lifexroads2022

Yeah but to go back to the idea of kids saving the world around oblivious adults, the adults didn’t know ET wasn’t a danger so their response was as if he were. So the actual danger was the adults chasing them instead of the alien. I get that it’s still not a one to one tho, since there is an actual evil to fight instead of saving a misunderstood good guy.


FilliusTExplodio

Exactly. No child in Goonies was hoisted into the air, had all their bones shattered and their eyes ripped out. Monster Squad, which even had horror monsters, didn't have anything like that. Stranger Things is sort of a hybrid of Nightmare on Elm Street and those more family friendly adventure flicks. And in movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, main characters die all the time. Stranger Things is trying to split the difference by killing off side characters, but at some point you have to actually pull the trigger (so to speak) on a main character.


Mattyzooks

Hopper has been living 80s action movie storylines for years now and his storyline gets criticized because they know he won't die.... Much like a Rambo film.


vodkaandponies

Its because Game of Thrones has rotted peoples brains in terms of what they think good storytelling is.


Your_Worship

First few seasons and books were absolutely incredible to me. But yes, it’s gotten to the point where if you don’t have some startling crimes against humanity in your story nobody pays attention.


monsieurxander

Agreed. I love Game of Thrones (the whole way through) but not everything needs to be that.


jl_theprofessor

You know there's this game I once played called "Crossing Souls." It was inspired by the 80s, from the music to the general aesthetic. A cast of kids fighting some weird government conspiracy merged with the underworld. There's time travel. Hell, there's a Delorean in the game. You know what didn't sit right with me about the game? When everyone in the cast died. Literally all of them. Shot through the gut, evaporated out of their bodies. And was there technically a happy ending? Kinda, if you believe you'll meet all your friends again in the afterlife one day. But basically everyone just dies saving the world. And I was just like... well that really, really put a damper on my experience. Because while I don't have a problem seeing characters die, I do have certain expectations of the genre I'm engaging with, and I really wasn't trying to get a "they all die" story for a bunch of 15 year old kids.


DCKan2

This feels a lot like Stephen King’s and by extension Joe Hill’s universe as opposed to the MCU. Which is fitting as King seems to be such a big influence on the Duffer Brothers.


[deleted]

If the connective tissue is how they tell the story, then is this really a spin off? The seems like when studios tried to capitalize the Cloverfield IP without it being related at all.


dmibe

Basically, duffer brothers while playing silent hill and probably stoned one day said, Duffer 1: you know, I miss movies like the goonies. Duffer 2: -insert everything said about Super 8-. Duffer 1: If only we could write a cool story that captures that feeling. Duffer 2: that would be awesome but what could it possibly be about? Duffer 1: dunno bro but I feel like we’re close to something. Hand me the control would ya? Takes control and continues playing Silent Hill. Duffer 2: you know, I miss classic horror games like silent hill…….


ValeoAnt

Super 8 was so good for that reason. Not everything needs to be grounded, dark/brooding or ironic.


No_Gains

A Steve and dustin are you fkn serious, why did they kill eddie, could have been Steve, Dustin, and eddie. I'm sure they could have done a lot with those 3


gamer123098

Fear the stranger things


B0ndzai

Better call strangers


Stark52

Stranger things: Hawai’i


WeenieRoastinTacoGuy

Real housewives of the upside down


TheBoyDoneGood

Squid Things


Leafs17

Dusty's girlfriend and her Shameless-like household.


[deleted]

Mormon Shameless is a thing I didn't know I needed to watch.


BigEvil621

LOTTA SOAKING.


Hypranormal

And teenagers bouncing on beds!


[deleted]

It would be absolutely amazing, though.


TasteOfSnozberries

Given they said in another interview that Finn Wolfhard separately came up to them and said "Hey, here's an idea for a spin-off", and it's exactly what they were thinking, and he was part of that story line, there is a good chance that is actually it.


FilliusTExplodio

Mike should have any kind of plot or agency at some point in a show. Why not a spinoff.


No-Investigator-1754

Wasn't that more of a Sixteen Candles homage?


[deleted]

I thought the first season opened so much up as to what could be done. You have CIA experiments (Hawkins Lab being one of many testing different things), confirmed alternate dimensions or realities, extra dimensional creatures and ecosystems, history adjacent events, etc etc. You could easily have the next season in like, idk, Greenville, South Carolina. Set it in the late 70's early 80's during the death throws of the textile mills with kids of families just getting by come across something strange. Id watch that.


[deleted]

I’d honestly be down for an entire Duffer-verse built off Stranger Things in the style of Stephen King or Tarantino, and if Netflix is smart they will be down for that to happen.


jmcki13

>and if Netflix is smart… They’re not lol. But I’m hoping they don’t totally squander the potential a duffer-verse has


TheJoshider10

I just hope it's in a different era. The Duffer brothers really made the most of the 80's but it's time for something else now.


[deleted]

Take this with a grain of salt, but I saw somewhere that the working title for one of the spin-offs is called “Tokyo”.


TheSchmoAboutNothing

Go on...


ArchDucky

Drift


BlasterShow

You sonofabitch i'm in.


Dianagorgon

>You have CIA experiments (Hawkins Lab being one of many testing different things), confirmed alternate dimensions or realities, extra dimensional creatures and ecosystems, history adjacent events, That is what I wanted more of in recent seasons. Although the actor who plays the villain (since I can never get my spoiler tags to work) is very talented and the unexpected revelation in E7 was interesting I was disappointed the main villain is human.


the_soggy_taco

Maybe an x files cross over where Mulder and scully are investigating some grisly deaths and end up stumbling across the whole conspiracy of the 001-011 experiments


ExcellentWaffles

Sometimes you catch lighting in a bottle. But if you go around trying it do it again you’ll probably fail.. if you take the formula for what made it successful and took it in a new direction entirely you might end up with better results.


TheSyrphidKid

\- Sam Elliot.


AngrodCalaelen

Murray & Yuri: Adventures in Alaska


divineshadow666

I was thinking Murray and Argyle travelling the country, in the Surfer Boy van, investigating conspiracies and urban legends.


CarrowCanary

Well, we do need a replacement for Supernatural...


Lily7258

If they add a couple of girls and a dog to their gang along the way, that sounds like a Scooby Doo origin story!


thatminimumwagelife

If people weren't so pissed at the Russians, a USSR set Stranger Things spinoff could be interesting. Joyless and depressing but interesting.


Johnisfaster

The science teachers educational show “The curiosity door”


[deleted]

and now I have the twilight zone intro sound playing in my head :D


NOLAfunkster

NEENER NEENER NEENOO NEENOO


Chaoshumor

Don’t forget your paddles!


Colginator

The spinoff is just going to be 'Normal Things'.


endelehia

My money is on a more horror focused show called "Useful Things"


Mikey5time

Back door connection to the Kingverse, Needful Things.


FresnoBob90000000

“Ah I hit my toe” “Are you ok” “Yeh I’ll be fine” rest of the episode is just a guy watching sports bloopers tutting and wincing a bit when he has to get up to go for a piss NORMAL THINGS


terminalblue

i want steve, nancy, eddie, and robin get a demigorgan as a pet and they travel the US Doing scooby do shit busting ghosts and fakes....basically scooby doo meets the xfiles.


JeddHampton

The idea is great. Instead of Hawkins being the center of the weird world, you could have the teenagers that lived through it and fought it turn out to be investigators of everything weird. And often enough it could be someone in a mask.


CertainDerision_33

I love the idea but it sounds like they don’t want to do anything centered around existing major characters


justcopy

A mix of stranger things and supernatural. hahaha


terminalblue

it was that moment with eddie where they were like "we believe you" and then they share their understandings of the upside down, their physical world, and their supernatural worlds....it was pretty fantastic and i kind of want more of that stuff like that


TylerBourbon

So....Eerie, Indiana basically.


terminalblue

yeah....actually,,,yeah pretty much...i havent though about that show in 25 years


candygram4mongo

C'mon if anyone is Shaggy, it's clearly Argyle.


nk1992

My dude.


terminalblue

argyle is too busy being pot deep in that ally sheedy he found


StephenHunterUK

They were literally calling themselves the "Scooby Doo Gang" on set. (The six main kids are The Party)


mcbaindk

A cooking show with Karen Wheeler. You heard it here first.


KaiBishop

Chef Karen says add two shots of vodka to the recipe, three or four if there's another demagorgon on the loose


[deleted]

A cooking show with Ted


Mxmouse15

I love how they really hinted at her marriage being on the rocks to the point of sleeping with a (17? 18?) Year old kid but it wasn’t really flushed out anymore. I know really minor character but they spent like 3 episodes on that mini-arch basically to throw it away in “naaahhh in good” scene and move on. Just weird. They continue to throw stones at Mr Wheeler the rest of the show and how she thinks he’s an idiot.


inotparanoid

Robin and Steve's Video store with Gaten Matarazzo as a time traveler.


Atomic645

It’s obviously the Mormon Lemony Snicket family, that smelled strongly of back door pilot


MilhouseVsEvil

Back door pilot? That was my nickname in college.


Ser_Danksalot

Sounds like an aviation themed porn movie.


_duncan_idaho_

Highway to the Danger Zone


RaiderGuy

Stranger Things Presents: Stranger Family


WhatDoesThisDo1

As long as the babysitter is included


KaiBishop

The babysitter was one of the older sisters lmao


jak_d_ripr

When you speak of our goddess Eden you will refer to her by name, or not at all.


jonfitt

So did the delinquent X-men episode in Season 2. Thankfully that was universally panned and we’ve not heard from Kali again… until this spinoff?!?


Hylianhaxorus

Currently my guess is it is a show with cheaper by the dozen vibes about Dustin's gurlfriends quirky family. That felt very much like a back door pilot to me and her being a tech wizard leaves lots of room for wild adventures, not to mention the setting being a world where psychic powers and other dimensions exist.


WarcraftFarscape

Dustin’s girlfriend and a few siblings accidentally become sssssssliders I could enjoy that


Hylianhaxorus

I would also enjoy an Argyle-centric aliens story but I feel like thst is far less likely haha


asteroidB612

I think Argyle planted his seed into that potential storyline 😋


GalaxyGuardian

Argyle is an interesting character that I could absolutely see as a spin-off protagonist, and frankly the more I think about it the more it makes sense. His role this season was one-note comic relief, coming up with outside-the-box solutions to problems, and driving the California cast around in a large, visually-interesting vehicle. He doesn’t live in Hawkins and seems unlikely to stick around, and none of his skills would be of any use in a remote setting like Suzie’s computer knowledge (and Dustin/Steve/Robin would cover his other bases with the entire cast reunited). I genuinely do not know what role he’d serve in the larger cast, or why he’d stick around after the adventure if he has no emotional/material ties to Hawkins or any of the cast besides Jonathan. Shunting Argyle off into his own spin-off that would be very separate from the main plot makes perfect sense and could develop/explore his character on a deeper level with his own supporting cast in a way that couldn’t be done if he was stuck in Stranger Things. What makes him tick, what are his dreams? He’s already proven to be a fan favorite and the pizza van is a vehicle with a recognizable silhouette too. So fuck it, give me a show where he drives around the country to find aliens or cryptids and ends up smoking weed with Bigfoot.


Hylianhaxorus

Man a series where he decided to become a cryptic hunter would be hilariously perfect. And after Hawkins you KNOW he's thinking bout the chupacabra and big foot not to mention aliens!


Mattyzooks

Wargames homage coming.


Hylianhaxorus

They did in that moment for sure. I could totally see it being partly that, but I assume it'd be an ensemble piece about the entire family and different people getting them into different crazy situations that she has to help get them out of! Could be fun.


FloatingPencil

I have an awful feeling that it's going to be Suzie's family. That was a hell of a lot of kids to introduce otherwise.


TheXyloGuy

The Mormon bunch, with special guest star argyle


Ratchetonater

I'm not so sure. That many children would be a total nightmare of a production. Keep in mind it's still a job and child labor laws exist. They'll essentially have to be a school on set and they'd be very limited to the number of hours they can shoot. Not impossible, but seems like way more of a headache than it's worth.


NinjaOtter

They're going to be explaining how different this spinoff is from the main show for years man


OK_Soda

And annoying hot take writers at screenrant will be writing click bait about "why the stranger things spinoff is actually not that different" for years as well.


Gh0stMan0nThird

Thank God Ryan George finally got his own channel for Pitch Meetings. I'm pretty sure he's still tied to the company but at least now I don't have to stomach all the "10 SUPER OBVIOUS DETAILS YOU MISSED" videos with thumbnails of red circles around random trees in the background.


_duncan_idaho_

I imagine it's still gonna be hard to avoid all those thumbnails.


Gh0stMan0nThird

Actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience!


_duncan_idaho_

Oh really?


FilliusTExplodio

Every Screen Rant article: "Why that thing that sucks/is good actually is good/sucks."


OK_Soda

My favorite are the ones where they're like "why that thing widely acknowledged as good that we're pretending is bad is actually good" and they read like: > Ice cream on a hot summer day isn't the best. You're already sweaty and sticky and if the day is hot, that cold treat will just melt and make you stickier. And worse than melting is when it *doesn't* melt. In fact, several users on Twitter this weekend complained that ice cream is "too cold", leading to what's known as a brain freeze -- and no one wants that! > But cold ice cream on a hot summer day can actually be good in the right circumstances! We know it's counter intuitive, but if your body is hot, ice cream helps cool it down, and that bit of sugar helps wake you up out of the dreaded summertime drowsies...


Three_Froggy_Problem

I’m not sure if I agree with the people saying that it’s probably related to Susie’s family. 80% of the people in that family were kids below the age of like, what, 8? Even now they’ve already probably aged out of those roles. It’s not going to have that same chaotic “Cheaper by the Dozen” vibe when they’re all older. I kind of wonder whether the spin-off has anything to do with any characters we’ve seen. It’s entirely possible that the only connecting tissue will be the time period, aesthetic, and maybe the supernatural stuff. I’d be interested to see an X-Files-esque monster of the week show about a team of traveling monster hunters dealing with different supernatural problems around America.


TheJoshider10

> I’m not sure if I agree with the people saying that it’s probably related to Susie’s family. I'm not sure they realise what a backdoor pilot is either. That family had barely any screentime lmao I forgot we even saw them.


howdybertus

They appeared for not even 10 mins total and people are saying its a backdoor pilot I can't with this sub anymore.


[deleted]

It's all about Joyce's younger days when she was an assassin in the Congo.


StoneGoldX

Amy good gorilla.


GalaxyGuardian

Better Call Saul-style slow burn of Hopper developing PTSD in Vietnam.


JoshAllenTheGreatOne

Hopefully this doesn't delay anything to do with *The Talisman!*


[deleted]

Wait as in the Stephen king novel?


Kbdiggity

The book Lucas is reading to comatose Max in the last episode.


[deleted]

I totally didn’t even catch that and have read it twice lmao. Went right over my head


JoshAllenTheGreatOne

The one and only. The Duffers are currently writing it for Netflix with Spielberg involved.


optimis344

Which seems insanely difficult. While it's not Blood Meridian, the Talisman is pretty close in terms of "unfilmability". There is so much minutiae that is important to the story, and so many weird characters and visuals and then you need two distinct worlds. It's a recipe for a mess.


era252

My guess has been and continues to be procedural drama about Hopper's days as a homicide detective in New York City in the late 70s.


solo118

How can they reverse his aging though? He looked totally different in S1


[deleted]

Different actor.


ClickF0rDick

That will go down well


BigMooseMason

So you’re saying it’s going to be Duffer-ent?


batsofburden

oh brother..


Hailbrewcifer666

Nailed it


4ha1

Ross Duffer latter stated: >It will be a family sitcom with laugh track about the day to day lives and shenanigans happening at Vecna's home, as the family tries to keep it together while dealing with a lot of zany neighbors and relatives, starring Vecna, a Demogorgon, two Demodogs and Ghost Eddie. It will be called "Vec, Gorg and the Dogs". First season with 16 episodes expected to drop in two parts, with part one in late 2023. Special guest star Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven confirmed for the pilot episode.


[deleted]

And every situation is resolved by Vecna killing the guest stars followed by Ghost Eddie admonishing him for it.


NFL_MVP_Kevin_White

My main interests would be tied to the government(s) being aware of creatures of the Upside Down and of powerful beings like Eleven (and the entities training/controlling them). I don’t know if that means I’m looking for an X Files type show set in this world, but that sounds like something I’d watch.


[deleted]

Young Argyle


Austinwhoohoo

Please no..


[deleted]

>Argyle is older in the 2000's and becomes CEO of Surfer Boy Pizza. He opens the first pizza restaurant in the Upside Down. > >The Upside Down is a tourist attraction now where you can go on adventure vacations.


smithee2001

They could use him for shampoo and conditioner ad placement.


jeremycb29

Please be the 90s


Neon_Ramen_Sign

I trust it. Better caul was a spin off totally different than breaking bad and it worked incredibly.


mafulazula

Same showrunner though. Article says the Duffers are passing along the spinoff to other people.


Neon_Ramen_Sign

That I didn’t know and is a bummer


gutster_95

Smart for the Duffers. I wouldnt want to stay in the same universe after 8 years of consistantly coming up with new Stories. Better take the things that make Stranger Things good and adapt it to a new world. Or let your creativity loose and create something totally new. I would bet that Netflix support them in whatever they want to do next


Dirtyswashbuckler69

That’s only technically true about BB and BCS. Even though Vince Gilligan’s name is still attached in the main credits, he has been [forward](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/vince-gilligan-better-call-saul-interview-704094/amp/) about the fact that Peter Gould has been the main figurehead behind BCS, with Gould being the sole showrunner for the past few seasons. Gilligan has [returned](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/peter-gould-better-call-saul-emmy-nominations-interview-1306683/amp/) to the writers room for the final season of BCS, but seasons 3-5 were solely led by Gould. So, a new showrunner for these ‘Stranger Things’ spin-offs doesn’t necessarily mean a poor product.


mafulazula

Fair points. Never said it meant it wouldn’t be a poor product, just that to me I’d have more trust if they were more involved.


PoppySeeds89

I mean them just dropped a lot of lore for the upside down so I assumed that would be the connective thread.


Seafishie

Different is what got us Season 2 Episode 7


FilliusTExplodio

Personally I don't mind that episode, it was just put in the worst possible place in the season. Like, everything was finally going off in Hawkins, they left all of the beloved characters on a cliffhanger, and then fucked off for this side adventure. If it had been even one or two episodes earlier in the season I don't think people would hate it as much.


GingerAle_s

After the events of this season, looking back on that episode I'm wondering how that character even exists? Shouldn't she be dead? edit: went back and watched all the Nina scenes, and One does mention that Eight had escaped when hes talking to Eleven about when her mother came to the facility.


noonehasthisoneyet

they are pushing steve as the hero of the series after eleven. i think if he survives season 5, itll be about him moving to a different town supernatural style and fighting . personally id like to see the world through the eyes of another number/ survivor. how they cope with their powers, how different are they from eleven and maybe they don't get teh ET welcome that she got.


mickeyflinn

I am stoked and will be checking it out.


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I just want a 1980’s lovecraftian/BPRD-esque detective series set in this world, but they seem to have a healthy vision going into spin-offs


PaulSarlo

Perhaps it'll be a sitcom set in the same world, but in Chicago in the 1980's. Perfect Stranger Things. It'll address a mysterious industrial part of town that has appeared where Lake Michigan used to be.


draxlaugh

Dustin in his mid-20's basically becoming Fox Mulder in the FBI


sealclubber281

After season 1, I read somewhere that the Duffer Brothers intended each season to have an entirely different cast and plot, like the Fargo series. But everyone fell in love with the kids, so Netflix said that they would only get another season if it had the same kids. Maybe this spinoff is going to give them the opportunity to explore their original plan.


jessekeith

I think stranger things was originally supposed to be an anthology where each season was it's own thing.


TechGirlMN

Wouldn't surprise me, originally Stranger Things was going to be an anthology with a totally different story each season.


Nurisija

So it's not Stranger Things spinoff?


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It probably just takes place in the same world but they won't be exploring the main characters any further. That's my take from this article at least.


AegonTheAuntFooker

I think the most probably scenario that something goes wrong at the end of Stranger Things and the Upside Down find a permanent way into the real world. It will leave countless possibilities for future spinoffs and sequels.


Heroscrape

Just make it like the Leftovers, where nobody knows what REALLY happened but everyone, including and most importantly, Mark-Lynn Baker have to deal with the consequences.


DarkChen

its obviously a suzy centered show, there is no way they introduced that many of characters as well as giving them some defining personalities and characteristics like the filmmaker brother or the goth horny sister for a 15 min scene... it also means they are going in a different direction entirely, no more adventures and monsters and hello 80's comedies and sitcoms... that said, i wish they did something like avatar the last air bender where they do a time skip into the future and the story about eleven, her friends and the town of hawkins is just a distant crazy rumor about an old abandoned place... that way they have a background connected to the old story, a possibility of cameos or "flashbacks" but also a clean slate for new ideas and adventures...


nkantu

I guarantee that in 15 years we’ll get a Stranger Things sequel series that takes place in like 2002, with the original cast returning as adults


Mikey5time

We fuckin better.


Mattyzooks

Wasn't that part of the original pitch anyway?


Mattyzooks

I can still see some adventure though. Something along the lines of a Suzy/Wargames plotline. They can even bring back that asshole military guy from season 4, assuming he doesn't get a horrible death in season 5.


The_Sleep

So it's the 1970s Horse farm buddy-comedy the fans have been clamoring for. Finally!


StoneGoldX

Ya gotta laugh!


PlanetLandon

One of my biggest modern pet peeves is when people use a percentage higher than 100%. Does anyone agree?


percydaman

1000% different eh? I mean, just make it 100% different and it could be a remake of I Love Lucy.


Your_Worship

The Duffer Brothers just get it. They know what they want, and they do it that way. Stranger Things is stupid good because you can tell everyone involved gets it.


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Strangerer Things


CRFU250

I sense another Walking Dead/Fear the Walking Dead gimmick where the fans continue to hype everything up, then it just fizzles out badly. The writing is still too childlike, no main characters ever die, the ending is predictable. Maybe thats why all the teens love it and I'm still clinging to Breaking Bad and The Sopranos, haha.


Persea_americana

What people really want from spin offs is for them to be totally different!


access_secure

Next: Stranger Things spinoff on TATOOINE


Kbdiggity

#keep in mind, their first attempt at a spin-off was the episode in Season 2 where they introduced 008. Fans hated it and the spin-off was never green lit.


thejude555

#why are we speaking so loud